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eBay Successfully Sells Skype?Gets $1.9 Billion Cash Up Front
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- 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...
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
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...
Skype Founders Sue eBay, Investors Over Licenses; Could Delay Sell-Off
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- 2009-09-16
Just as eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is ready to spinoff Skype, the founders of the virtual telephone company are suing the auction site for violating their license agreements and infringing on their copyright. According to a WSJ piece, the founders of Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, who now run the...
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...
Google Gunning For eBay, PayPal
BNET
- 2009-03-12
Google is going after Skype, eBay's voice-over-IP VoIP phone service and, more importantly, PayPal, its online payment business. Google announced that it's releasing Google Voice to registered users of Grand Central, the VoIP company it acquired in June 2007, and will release it to the general public...
eBay to sell Skype – Rumour
Strategy Eye
- 2009-01-26
Industry insiders say that eBay is gearing up to sell internet telephony firm Skype, which it bought in 2005 for USD2.6bn, a price the auction site has since admitted was too high. Speculation over a possible deal emerged after eBay CEO John Donahue described Skype as a ?great standalone...
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...
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...
VoIP on verge of disrupting telecom.(Focus)(Company overview)
- 2006-04-24
Byline: JONI MORSE Hysteria about Voice over Internet Protocol is apparently not without cause, as VoIP is claiming a big (and-getting-bigger) piece of the communications market. Earthlink Inc. and Linksys, a Cisco Systems Inc. subsidiar ...
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