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The Motley Fool May 16, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	eBay's Talk Is Cheap The auction site's Skype VoIP service is allowing its users to make free stateside calls to landline and mobile phones. That's good news for eBay -- and bad news for telcos in general, and Vonage in particular. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Yahoo! Calling Yahoo! launches a telephony service to dial up revenues. In the end, this is just more trouble for the traditional phone industry, and even more reason to worry about Vonage's upcoming IPO.
PC Magazine December 29, 2005 Davis D. Janowski	Skype 2.0 beta Get free video calling, a streamlined interface, and more with Skype's new beta.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Skype Victoriously, MySpace Friends eBay's Skype connects with the world's most popular social network. What will it mean to investors?
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2011 Dennis LaMantia	Long-Distance Logic Creigh A. Bogart and other CCIM members are using VoIP programs like Skype and Web-based applications such as Google Voice to supplement their landlines and cell phones. In the process, they're saving time and money.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Bon Voyage, Vonage The VoIP leader files to go public, but the company's current financials don't look too appealing. It's important for Vonage to enter the market at a reasonable price, especially now that it faces greater risk from the Grandbaby Bells. Let's hope that Vonage isn't making the call too late.
BusinessWeek September 26, 2005 Justin Hibbard	Skype: How A Startup Harnessed The Hoopla How did Skype, founded just three years ago, manage to parlay itself into being acquired by eBay?
The Motley Fool January 27, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	You're Selling the Wrong Verb, eBay Media outlets are speculating that eBay's online voice chat subsidiary Skype may be sold off, based on comments that CEO John Donahoe made during last week's conference call.
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Skype Offers Unlimited Calling Plan Cheap rates and discount products are on the table for SkypeOut subscribers.
The Motley Fool June 14, 2006 Alyce Lomax	eBay's Skype Dream In a long-awaited move, the online auctioneer integrates Skype into its site.
PC Magazine September 13, 2004 Craig Ellison	Skype 1.0 If you've been waiting to try Internet telephony, wait no longer. Skype is worth trying out--especially since it's free.
PC World January 22, 2007 Dan Tynan	Sick of High Phone Bills? I Hear You Voice-over-IP phone services can save you big bucks if you choose carefully.
InternetNews October 17, 2007 Sean Gallagher	Skype Gives MySpace Users A Voice Skype has hooked up with MySpace to provide click-and-talk voice services. But is too much, too soon?
InternetNews May 16, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Skype Suspends Calling Charges Skype users making calls to regular phones will be free in the U.S. and Canada for the next year.
BusinessWeek November 1, 2004 Andy Reinhardt	The Word on Skype: "It Really Works" A BusinessWeek reporter tests the free Net phone service -- and becomes a convert. It "redefines the whole experience of voice communications," he says.
AskMen.com Jim Bauer	Choosing The Right VoIP Provider Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP for short, was introduced in the mid-'90s as a way to make phone calls over the Internet.
PC World July 2005 Steve Bass	Cheap and Easy Internet Phone Calls Why sign up for a complex service when you can just test the online waters?... Tool of The Month: Exterminate Stubborn Files...
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InternetNews August 8, 2005 Jim Wagner	Skype Downplays Takeover Talk Responding to a report that News Corp. floated a $3 billion acquisition offer, a spokeswoman for the VoIP developer says the company is not for sale.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	The Skype's the Limit Given CEO Meg Whitman's vocal stance on proposed pay-to-play Internet legislation, and how it would impact Skype, eBay's latest catch may prove to be its biggest. Investors, take note.
InternetNews April 14, 2009 Christopher Saunders	eBay Plans Skype IPO Online auction giant eBay is planning to take plans its Skype Internet telephony unit public, with an Initial Public Offer planned for the first half of 2010.
InternetNews September 10, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Skype Puts VoIP on PDAs Internet telephony provider Skype Technologies has released a final version of its peer-to-peer VoIP software for Wi-Fi-enabled Pocket PC devices.
InternetNews September 23, 2009	Skype Works to Up Its Enterprise Appeal The VoIP service opens a few new doors into the workplace, thanks to its SIP capabilities for IP-PBX systems.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Madonna Meets Skype Warner's music label hooks up with eBay's hot chat service, but the move may make more sense than cents. Let's face it -- folks who may be too cheap to pay for conventional phone service are also likely to be too cheap to pay for high-end wireless phones with digital download capability.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Battle of the Verbs at eBay Yes, eBay is still a very necessary cog in the e-commerce engine, but its flexibility to inch rates higher is going to be tested now that there are so many free outlets springing up for the entrepreneurially minded. Investors, take note.
InternetNews May 8, 2007	Skype Me on Salesforce.com? Skype is teaming up with SaaS leader Salesforce.com in an attempt to tease customers into deploying Skype with their Salesforce Web-based applications.
InternetNews August 30, 2010	Skype Looks to 'Connect' With Enterprises Skype rolls out a new service for enhancing companies' existing investments in PBX telephony and unified communications.
InternetNews March 23, 2009 Michelle Megna	Skype Eyes Business Dollars With SIP Service Skype aims to make good on its promise to get a slice of the big business pie - and help eBay recoup on the VoIP unit's multi-billion-dollar price tag.
The Motley Fool September 1, 2009 Anders Bylund	Terrible Timing, eBay! Could eBay have played the Skype acquisition any worse?
InternetNews October 12, 2005 Jim Wagner	Skype Makes USB Phone Push The free VoIP provider signs deals with two handset manufacturers to get its service on USB phones.
InternetNews June 2, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Skype on Dell Skype, eBay's Internet phone service, has inked a deal with Dell, making the free VoIP software an option on new high-end multimedia laptops.
InternetNews April 11, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Skype Buys VoIP Startup Skype beefed up its VoIP talent pool today, acquiring Sonorit Holding and its U.S. subsidiary startup Camino Networks for $27 million in stock.
InternetNews September 29, 2010	Avaya Hooks Up With Skype for Enterprise VoIP Enterprise unified communications player Avaya is teaming with Skype to include support for the popular VoIP provider's services in its networking equipment.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2010 Manikandan Raman	Google vs. Skype: Who Will Win the Internet Telephony Battle? Can Google make consumers abandon Skype and migrate to its Gmail calling?
Entrepreneur January 2006 Mike Hogan	Skype's the Limit With better quality and features, Skype takes VoIP for your business calls to a new level.
InternetNews July 12, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Skype Goes Boingo For Wi-Fi Boingo now offers Skype VoIP access across its 18,000 hotspots.
The Motley Fool October 6, 2010 Andrew Bond	Skype Looking Good to Investors and Cisco Skype's recent moves have increased the value of the company to investors and Cisco.
InternetNews March 31, 2009 Michelle Megna	Skype for iPhone Lands at Apple App Store The new Internet phone app for iPhone makes its debut as the company defends limiting calls to Wi-Fi only.
The Motley Fool August 20, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Skype Scraper eBay's online voice-chat subsidiary is back after a two-day outage. Consumers seem willing to forgive and forget. For Skype's sake, let's hope that it doesn't have to apologize too much more in the future.
PC Magazine February 19, 2009 Michael Muchmore	Skype 4.0 Skype's new interface makes video calls a priority and is the most intuitive out there. The new, efficient Silk audio codec produces class-leading sound for video and voice, earning Skype our Editors' Choice for video calling.
InternetNews November 27, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Skype With a Phone A Danish electronics company announced yet another way Skype fans can choose between Internet-based or traditional phone calls. The DualPhone 3088 is the latest handset erasing the need for a computer
InternetNews August 17, 2007 Larry Barrett	Skype Back For Some Skype, the online telephone service, said Friday that it was "on the road to recovery" after a software glitch prevented most of its 220 million-plus subscribers from signing on to the network.
InternetNews May 15, 2007 David Needle	Skype Calls on Wal-Mart Distribution deal adds 'Skype-certified' hardware to Wal-Mart's 1,800 stores.
BusinessWeek May 11, 2011 Ashlee Vance	Silver Lake Partners Wins $2.9 Billion Skype Payday Microsoft's $8.5 billion purchase of Skype is a windfall for private equity firm Silver Lake, but the Internet calling company is still unprofitable.
BusinessWeek October 29, 2007 Bruce Meyerson	Skype Goes Mobile Skype's new cell phone will deliver mobile access to its service. The beleaguered carrier hopes to jump-start revenues overseas.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2005 Dave Mock	eBay Today, eBell Tomorrow? eBay's purchase of Skype sets the standard for the role of next-generation communications. Traditional telecom companies are a dying breed, and eBay isn't buying into one of them.
PC Magazine October 23, 2008 Michael Muchmore	Skype 4.0 Beta 2 for Windows Skype 4.0 beta 2 adds compact mode, revamps conversation views, and gets closer to SightSpeed in video quality.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2007 Mac Greer	Fool Video: eBay's Skype Punt What does eBay's Skype write-off really mean for investors? What is eBay's Skype strategy? How does Skype compare to similar initiatives from competitors? These questions are answered in this video.