Skype Technologies S.A.

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• SEC Watch: Skype By The Numbers

  PaidContent - 2009-11-20

  The morning-after paperwork from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) as control of Skype shifts to a private investment group led by Silver Lake Partners offers a look at the post-split financials for both companies—and the kind of detail on Skype we aren’t likely to see much of now that it’s no...

  Tags: SEC, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Investment, Balance Sheets, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, Financial Services, Financial Statements, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Staci D. Kramer

• eBay Successfully Sells Skype?Gets $1.9 Billion Cash Up Front

  PaidContent - 2009-11-19

  eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has closed its deal to sell VoIP service Skype for roughly $2.75 billion. The group of buyers—including Joltid Limited, Andreessen Horowitz and others—are paying $1.9 billion in cash up front, with $125 million in principal notes. eBay is retaining a 30 percent stake in Skype, as...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., VOIP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Investment, Financial Accounting, Networking, Finance, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tameka Kee

• Skype Saga Turns Out To Be Clever Negotiation

  BNET - 2009-11-06

  For some time it's been clear that eBay needed to dump Skype, the VoIP service for which it paid $2.75 billion in an acquisition that made no sense then and seemed even crazier as time went on. So little surprise when eBay announced a deal in September. But there was...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Negotiation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Free Trade, Corporate Law, Telecommunications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Erik Sherman

• Skype Cofounders Will Be Part Of Buyout Group; Index Ventures Is Out

  PaidContent - 2009-11-05

  A settlement has been reached that should wipe the slate on all of the litigation involving Skype and its founders, paving the way for the unit to be spun out of eBay (NSDQ: EBAY)—and also will wipe Index Ventures out of the picture, paidContent has confirmed.  Reports of a...

  Tags: Founder, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Litigation, Investment, Business Operations, Finance, Staci D. Kramer

• Skype Future Owners Jolted by Joltid

  BNET - 2009-09-17

  Having been involved in due diligence during M&A myself, I understand that it's a critical activity. And for that reason I have to shake my head at eBay as well as some of the companies taking over Skype: private equity firm Silver Lake and VCs Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz....

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Erik Sherman

• Interview: Index Venture's Danny Rimer On New Skype Investment

  PaidContent - 2009-09-01

  It only looks like deja vu all over again for Index Ventures, the early backer of Skype that is now part of the investor group buying 65 percent of the company from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) for $1.9 billion in cash. This time Index Ventures is investing in a profitable...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., IPO, Corporate Governance, Investment, Team Management, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Management, Staci D. Kramer

• eBay to Sell Most of Skype Stake -- How Unsurprising

  BNET - 2009-09-01

  Here's an old truism in business: the big majority of mergers and acquisitions never deliver the value they promised. That's not anecdotal, but the finding of one study after another, usually indicating that upwards of three-quarters of M&A activity doesn't deliver to shareholders. So the fact that eBay has announced...

  Tags: M&A, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Erik Sherman

• Skype's Troubled History With Ebay, in Links

  PaidContent - 2009-09-01

  Skype’s four year run under Ebay has been beset with troubles, and finally that is about to come to an end, as it gets sold to an investor group. The history of the marriage and pending divorce, in links ascending chronological order:—eBay Acquires Skype For $2.6 Billion In Cash,...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., IPO, Venture Capital, Investment, Litigation, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Rafat Ali

• Skype founders aim to buy firm back from eBay - Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-04-13

  The founders of internet call service Skype have secured the backing of four private equity firms in a bid to buy back the company from eBay. KKR, Warburg Pincus, Providence and Elevation Partners are reported to support the bid by Niklas Zennstrom and Jannus Friis to...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Internet, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Personal Finance, Investment, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Skype, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, Providence Equity Partners, Warburg Pincus LLC, Elevation Partners, Jasper Jackson

• The Skype's the Limit

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-26

  eBay Investor submits: eBay's EBAY acquisition of Skype in 2005 has been one of the many controversial moves eBay has been recently making. The purchase was originally marketed as the missing piece to create the holy trinity in eBay's hallowed e-commerce halls (along with eBay's auction sites and PayPal.)...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Seeking Alpha, eBay Investor, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Technology, Corporate Law, E-business/E-Commerce, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Internet