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In the world of acquisition: MySpace and Photobucket, Ebay and StumpleUpon<\/p>\n

TWire<\/a> has reported that the social networking website MySpace will be acquiring Photobucket<\/a>, a popular photo sharing website which allow users use to store images to use on ebay<\/a>, MySpace<\/a>, Friendster<\/a> and the likes. The deal is said to be worth about $US250-300 million. <\/p>\n

In other news, ebay<\/a>, the leader in online auctions, is set to purchase StumbleUpon<\/a> for $75 million, according to Reuters<\/a>. StumbleUpon is a web 2.0 review site where users comments and rates websites in a very similar manner as digg<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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