These businesses are not meant to be managed on a quarterly basis but people take quarterly results and extrapolate them to come up with a long-term value for the stocks. You have to look at them with time horizons of two or three years, not two or three months.

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Ebay is really fighting for China but there are two entrenched players there already. So eBay had to invest more in China to compete more aggressively for market share.

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Ebay put out good numbers. Wall Street had already priced in a possible miss or even lower guidance going forward but that did not happen. Ebay in fact moderately raised expectations. So that's a good thing.

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The international business is really the growth story for eBay, especially as the U.S. market matures. However, there was a significant material decline in revenues overseas in the fourth quarter.

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Their growth rate internationally is still above 50 percent.

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They're betting on a change in the technology within voice communications.

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The search engines have been working on book-copying strategies themselves. This is Amazon showing people it too has a pretty compelling database of book text.

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Amazon is really getting hit from both sides. The business environment, especially in the United States, is very, very competitive.

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Their growth rate internationally is still above 50 percent. If [eBay is] at 37 times forward earnings and maintaining 30 percent margins, that's a good investment at current valuations.

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