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Interesting seeing eBay separate itself from these entities. First PayPal, now this. Are there others I'm missing?



eBay Enterprise is in the process of being sold or spun off:

http://recode.net/2015/01/21/ebay-to-cut-2400-jobs-and-explo...

Not many people know about eE, but it was the third pillar of eBay (alongside Marketplaces and Payments). It gives the sort of national merchants you find in malls the tools to compete with companies like Amazon. When Donahoe agreed to spin off PayPal, he promoted the head of Marketplaces (Devin Wenig) to be the CEO Elect of eBay Inc. Devin promptly announced he wanted to divest Enterprise, essentially splitting the 3 silos of eBay Inc into three separate companies.


Well, Stubhub would seem to be an obvious candidate. New management could make it much more profitable (e.g. add price floors like the other official resale marketplaces), but they would also face a potential avalanche of fraud cases they aren't prepared for.


There is also the Magento Enterprise division.




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