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August 03, 2005

What links Microsoft and eBay

What to Microsoft and eBay have in common? San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Lazarus' surprising answer:

Phone sex.

And pet psychics.

The two West Coast tech titans ... are investors in a small San Francisco company called Ingenio, which offers pay-per-minute telephone advice on a variety of topics.

Some of those topics, such as accounting and personal finance, will cause no eyebrows to be raised.

Others might seem, well, a bit unusual for respectable outfits like Microsoft and eBay ...

Category: You can't make this stuff up
Posted by Brian Chin at August 3, 2005 08:50 AM
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