eBay has acquired VUVOX to help further develop rich media capabilities in the eBay marketplace in order to create an enhanced customer experience. Patrick de Laive broke the story on his blog, The Next Web ( http://thenextweb.org/2008/06/23/ebay-secretly-acquires-visual-media-company-vuvox ). de Laive wrote that William Woodward (co-founder of Macromedia and an early …
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