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• 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

• Google Becomes (Almost) Full-Fledged Telecom, Vonage, Skype, Others In Sites

  BNET - 2009-11-13

  Google just bought VoIP software vendor and service provider Gizmo5, and everyone over at Vonage and Skype must be quaking in their shoes. by Erik Sherman

  Tags: Google Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp., Skype Technologies S.A., Business Services, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Erik Sherman

• Skype eyes VoIP startup to replace disputed technology - Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-13

  Internet calling firm Skype is reportedly in negotiations to buy voice-over-IP VoIP startup Gizmo5 in a bid to substitute Gizmo5’s technology for its current peer-to-peer (P2P) system. Skype’s P2P technology is the subject of a legal wrangle between the company and its founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who...

  Tags: VoIP, P2P, Skype Technologies S.A., Gizmo5, Robertson, Peer To Peer (P2P), Telephony, Internet, Networking, Skype, Joltid, Jasper Jackson, eBay Inc.

• Skype Gaining Business Users

  BNET - 2009-05-18

  Skype, the Internet-based telephony company which eBay plans to spin off in 2010, claims it's gaining a new audience -- business users. Chaim Haas, a spokesman for the company, told me that the proportion of business users as a percent of the total customer base grew from...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Instant Messaging, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Michael Hickins

• Internet telephony pioneers stumble

  - 2007-10-03

  NEW YORK, United States AFP — In spite of its global popularity, Internet telephony VoIP, which is almost free for users, has not become a gold mine for its pioneers such as Skype and Vonage. Popular online auction firm eBay, which bought Skype two years ago for 2.6 billion...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, eBay Inc., NETWORKING, Skype Technologies S.A., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, VOIP, Vonage Holdings Corp.

• Skype to allow PayPal money transfers on Internet phone service

  - 2007-03-20

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Skype said on Tuesday that users of its Internet telephone service will soon be able to transfer money to each other using PayPal. Skype and online financial transaction service PayPal, both owned by California-based Internet auction firm eBay, expected to formally announce the new service...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, eBay Inc., NETWORKING, PayPal, phone, Skype Technologies S.A., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VOIP

• Bad cake.(Opinion)

  - 2007-03-05

  Byline: Tracy Ford What is it about the wireless industry that causes everyone outside the space to think that they can have their cake and eat it too? The most recent perpetrator is Skype, which has asked the Federal...

  Tags: FCC, Government, network, NETWORKING, Skype Technologies S.A., Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Calypso Wireless Successfully Demonstrated the C1250i WiFi-GSM VoIP Skype Calls Connectivity Cellular Phones on Vodafone Network at 3GSM Congress

  - 2006-02-27

  MIAMI LAKES, Fla. -- Calypso Wireless, Inc. (PINK SHEETS:CLYW), a leader in advanced wireless telecommunications technology announced today that Calypso successfully demonstrated at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 trade show in Barcelona, Spain, the Calypso ASNAPTM C1250i WiFi-GSM Dual Mode VoIP Smart cellular phone and Imate SP5 interconnecting on the...

  Tags: 3GSM, Calypso Wireless Inc., MARKETING, mobile, network, NETWORKING, phone, Skype Technologies S.A., technology, U.S. Congress, Vodafone Group Plc., Wi-Fi, WIRELESS