EBay acquires ecommerce provider GSI for $2.4bn
29 Mar 2011 | by Daniel Farey-Jones
Ebay is buying ecommerce and marketing services company GSI for $2.4bn (£1.5bn), its largest deal since it bought Skype for $2.6bn five years ago.
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