Posted
5:01 PM
by Gene
It's official: eBay has entered its "mature" phase.PayPal, which EBay bought for about $1.5 billion in 2002, is now worth as much as $20 billion of the company's $44 billion market value, Whitman said. ``PayPal is one of the great all-time acquisitions,'' she said.TRANSLATION: Without PayPal eBay would be priced where it should be -- and that might still be too much.