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LiveStub hopes to nuke StubHub, others, with commission-free scalping

Dan Kaplan, VentureBeat08.25.2008
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Updated Thanks to the internet, selling tickets on the secondary ticket market — the act formerly known as scalping — has gone legit. EBay bought the market pioneer, StubHub, for $310 million. TicketMaster dropped $265 million to get its hands on TicketsNow, and top-tier VC firm Kleiner Perkins led a $26 million... (Read more)

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