eBay to Acquire StumbleUpon for $40-45 Million?

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 18, 2007

StumbleUpon is rumored to be in talks of an acquisition with eBay. According to both GigaOm and TechCrunch, Google and AOL are other potential suitors as well. The amount is rumored to be $40-45 million.

Stumble Upon has a toolbar where users can rate various websites. StumbleUpon badges appear are seen on blogs and other websites including Pulse 2.0 at the bottom of every post. Essentially it is a website recommendation system.

Currently, StumbleUpon is seeing 2.1 million monthly users and the company previously raised $1.5 million in funding.