StumbleUpon Freed From eBay, Starts Over As Start-Up...Again

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So this is supposed to be a good thing.

After celebrating their acquisition by eBay almost two years ago, social bookmarking and website recommendation-engine-thingy, StumbleUpon, is celebrating their new-found "freedom" from being chained to The Man.

But is this really freedom? The company has lost the firepower of one of the internet's biggest auctioneer/retailers and ended up back in the wee paws of its founders and a couple of "great investors".

Although the company claims this change won't "impact the Stumbling experience", it's likely going to impact the company's stumbling business, as it's ended up back where it started — as...well...a start-up all over again.

One step forward, two steps back?