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Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 1957 - January 16, 2009 - ISSN 1539-5065      Previous Story | | Next Story

eBay's Omidyar and Randy Ching Work on Ginx Twitter Tool
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
January 16, 2009
Reading AuctionBytes: eBay's Omidyar and Randy Ching Work on Ginx Twitter Tool

A blogger broke the news that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar was involved with a company called Peer News Inc., which runs Ginx.com. The Barron's blog wrote its take on Omidyar's new venture - a tool for users of the Twitter micro-blogging service, and Ginx subsequently issued a press statement from Hawaii:

Ginx is a Twitter client that aims to provide Twitter users with a rich experience for sharing and discussing links. Ginx was created to enable people to become more actively engaged in the news and topics they care about. Ginx recently went live to a small group of early alpha users who are providing feedback to the team on features and functionality. Peer News expects to make Ginx available to more users later this year. For updates on the service follow @ginx on Twitter. Ginx is the first service from Peer News, a new startup co-founded by Pierre Omidyar and Randy Ching.

AuctionBytes interviewed Randy Ching at the eBay Developers Conference in 2004 when Ching was Vice President of eBay Solutions Platform. He stepped down from his job as Vice President & General Manager of Global Classifieds at eBay in 2007.

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