I can confirm reports that Christopher Payne, co-founder of Positronic, Inc., has joined eBay as VP of Search. Additionally, Positronic co-founder Dane Glasgow has joined eBay as VP of Engineering. I can also confirm that eBay has acquired Positronic to help with efforts at leveraging machine learning to provide a more predictive and compelling customer experience.
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Thursday, January 8th, 2009
eBay Acquires Positronic, Inc.
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Friday, September 12th, 2008
Keep Your Finger on the “eBay Pulse”
Earlier this morning there was a very brief post made by Dennis Goedegebuure to the announcement board that teased an all-new eBay Pulse.
I spend a lot of time commuting each day with Dennis. We live in the same neighborhood in SF and our wives share eerily similar body-clocks when it comes to expecting baby # 2 and, as a result, we catch up a lot on the shuttle to work. We share common interests on the work side of things too. His official title is “Internet Marketing Specialist” but I think its best to categorize him as the SEO Guru here at the company. As a result, we talk blogging a lot and when I saw the short post to the Discussion Board I knew I needed to go get more info from him.
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