EBay has made several recent e-commerce acquisitions, such as e-commerce platform GSI Commerce Inc. and Milo Inc.

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Hunch is something we can use on eBay, but then give access to folks in the GSI portfolio.

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Those assets will be sold to a new holding company led by GSI founder and CEO Michael Rubin.

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EBay completed its acquisition of GSI Commerce, an e-commerce company on June 17.

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Just yesterday a new report produced by Forrester Research and GSI Commerce found no evidence that social media effects sales.

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He's CEO of ShopRunner, a subsidiary of e-tail-services company GSI Commerce that recently launched a Prime-like service for a collection of offline retailers.

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This is changing: 2010 is the year retailers are finally using tracking software in a big way, says Fiona Dias, an EVP at GSI Commerce.

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The deal will be immaterial to 2011 non-GAAP results, but will reduce GAAP results by 30-34 cents a share, mostly for charges related to the GSI businesses to be divested.

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