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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.

• 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.

• VoIP Does Good

  - 2007-05-17

  ShoreCap Exchange, a non-profit whose board I’m on, provides and helps fund technical assistance to microcredit institutions in developing countries. At a recent meeting we heard the story of a successful engagement which was Skype-enabled. The bank receiving assistance is in a remote Asian country....

  Tags: Telephony, VoIP, Skype Technologies S.A., Human Resources, ShoreCap Exchange, developing country, General

• Skype Founder Niklas Zennstrom to Deliver Keynote Address at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO; Founder and Inventor of Peer-to-Peer Phenomenon Will Address Audience at Leading VoIP Conference in Los Angeles

  - 2005-07-25

  NORWALK, Conn. -- Technology Marketing Corporation TMC today announced that Niklas Zennstrom, founder and president of Skype, has accepted an invitation to deliver a keynote address at their upcoming INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Fall 2005 in Los Angeles.

  Tags: IP telephony, P2P, Skype Technologies S.A., telephony, VoIP

• Skype and Boingo Merge Internet Telephony and Global Wi-Fi Access; Skype Users Can Add 18,000 Boingo Hot Spots Via New 'Skype Zones - Powered by Boingo' Service

  - 2005-07-12

  LUXEMBOURG and SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Boingo Wireless, the leading Wi-Fi aggregator and software company, and Skype, the Global Internet Telephony CompanyTM, today announced Skype Zones - Powered by Boingo service, offering global Wi-Fi access to Skype customers at revolutionary prices.

  Tags: Boingo Networks, IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., telephony

• Fiberlink and Skype Partner to Deliver Internet Telephony to the Mobile Workforce; Companies Package Flexible and Inexpensive Voice Calling with Broadband Access and Security

  - 2005-05-11

  BLUE BELL, Pa. & LUXEMBOURG -- Fiberlink Communications Corp. has partnered with Skype to advance the next stage in mobile working for enterprises worldwide. Fiberlink, a leading innovator and trusted enterprise partner for secure mobile workforce solutions, today unveiled a strategic partnership with Skype designed to make it easy for...

  Tags: broadband, IP telephony, Microsoft Access, mobile, security, Skype Technologies S.A., telephony

• VTech Partners With Skype to Launch First U.S. Cordless Phone for Free Global Telephony

  - 2005-02-16

  LAS VEGAS -- VTech and Skype Empower People to Affordably Stay in Touch with Family and Friends

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• Founder of Skype, Global ``Peer-to-Peer'' Telephony Phenomenon, Leads Panel Discussion at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & Expo

  - 2005-02-09

  WHO: - Niklas Zennstrom, Founder, Skype Via Audio Conference - Peter Sisson, President & CEO, Teleo - Dmitry Goroshevsky, Founder, Popular Telephony -...

  Tags: IP telephony, Panel Discussion, Skype Technologies S.A., telephony