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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.
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 June 14, 2006 Alyce Lomax	eBay's Skype Dream In a long-awaited move, the online auctioneer integrates Skype into its site.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2006 Tom Taulli	Vonage: Ring and Ka-Ching Vonage is the brand leader in VoIP. But what's the long-term play on the company? Investors, take note.
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.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	The Skype's the Limit News Corp. to pay $3 billion for an online freebie? Phone companies may see Vonage as a low-priced competitor, but Internet phone service Skype is an all-out threat. But is the company overvalued?
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 December 1, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Skype Spreads to Cell Phones eBay's Skype lands a sweet mobile deal with British wireless service provider 3 UK. Investors, take note.
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?
The Motley Fool November 22, 2005 Tom Taulli	From RadioShack: Skype Me! eBay promised synergy from its mega-deal to buy Skype, but now it looks mostly like a play for telecom. Shareholders need to wait until eBay can demonstrate how Skype fits with its larger agenda.
InternetNews May 24, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Vonage IPO Hits Market Turbulence Vonage hopes to raise $531M to help fund expansion and pay off debts.
The Motley Fool September 1, 2009 Anders Bylund	Terrible Timing, eBay! Could eBay have played the Skype acquisition any worse?
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.
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.
The Motley Fool December 21, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	The Worst Stock for 2007: Vonage Investors, when Vonage rings, don't answer. Ask for it to call back in a few years, when it will be either a viable business or a creepy call from beyond the grave.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2007 Seth Jayson	eBay's Partial Failure eBay hits shareholders with an impairment charge of $900 million for its Skype purchase, more than a third of the original cash and stock price.
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.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool August 26, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Vonage's Biggest Call Yet If the VoIP giant is looking to go public, it's timing couldn't be any better. If the company does officially file, it will be interesting to see what its finances look like -- and where it sees itself in the future.
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.
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.
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.
InternetNews May 3, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Audio Blogging With Skype By The Hundreds With a nod to the popularity of podcasts and social-networking, VoIP darling Skype today unveiled Skypecasts, a service allowing up to 100 users to hold real-time moderated calls on topics.
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.
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.
InternetNews December 1, 2005 Jim Wagner	Skype 2.0 Beta in The Air Free voice-over-Internet provider Skype is joining the pack with a videophone offering to compete with the likes of AOL Instant Messenger and Microsoft's MSN Messenger.
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.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Yahoo! Answers the Call The Internet giant prepares to launch a VoIP product through its instant-messenger service. Whether this move will bring in additional revenue for Yahoo! and help its messenger service gain more users remains to be seen.
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...
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 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 January 3, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	Skype's Advantage Cannot Be Free Skype is a great service, and eBay's auction business is fantastic. But the marriage of the two still seems bizarre, and months later, there still doesn't seem to be a clear path for how they fit together to deliver a return on investment for eBay shareholders.
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.
InternetNews August 25, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Report: Vonage Preps For IPO A public offering would illustrate the rapid ascension of VoIP from niche to mainstream. The IPO would give Vonage a war chest to battle an increasing number of competitors.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2006 Seth Jayson	From Woo Hoo to Boo Hoo Verizon is doing its part to turn the woo hoo into boo hoo by serving Vonage with a patent infringement lawsuit over its VoIP technology. Wall Street has punished Vonage shares mercilessly.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2005 David Meier	Did eBay Overpay? The online auctioneer's bid for Skype might seem rich, but it just may pay in the long term.
The Motley Fool October 6, 2005 Jeff Hwang	Dueling Fools: eBay Bull International business and payments will drive eBay's growth -- and don't forget Skype. How can you not like this stock?
The Motley Fool August 31, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Microsoft Makes the Call With Microsoft's interest apparent, it's clear VoIP is going increasingly mainstream.
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.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Buy It Now, Sell It Later at eBay This week has already seen eBay return social bookmarking site StumbleUpon to its founders and reportedly acquire a significant stake in South Korea's Gmarket. There are also rumors regarding Skype.
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.
The Motley Fool September 13, 2005 W.D. Crotty	eBay's Killer App? Until now, nobody's found a surefire formula for making VoIP a regular part of the Internet experience. Will eBay and Skype provide the necessary synergy to make it go? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 30, 2007 Dave Mock	Avoid the VoIP Value Trap Not all disruptive innovations make good investments. As flashy and fancy as it sounds, VoIP offers no new killer applications or buzzworthy innovations. It's the same thing you've always used -- just cheaper.
BusinessWeek November 1, 2004 Andy Reinhardt	Net Phone Calls, Free -- And Clear Skype's radical peer-to-peer technology turns a PC equipped with a microphone, speakers, and broadband connection into a telephone. More than 12 million Web surfers have downloaded the free software and registered as users since the program appeared 14 months ago.
InternetNews October 12, 2007 Larry Barrett	Skype Co-Founder Admits Expectations Were Too High A week after eBay wrote off $1.4 billion from its purchase, Skype's co-founder and former CEO said early revenue targets were overly ambitious.
The Motley Fool April 15, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Get In on the Skype IPO eBay finally found a way to unload its popular voice and video chat platform. It will take Skype public as a stand-alone company in the first half of next year.
InternetNews July 15, 2009	Google Voice Takes VoIP to Android, BlackBerry Google's Internet phone service debuts in Android and BlackBerry apps. Should carriers and Skype be worried?
InternetNews September 20, 2005 Erin Joyce	Not All Hype About eBay-Skype The good news is that the big eBay-Skype deal isn't the only buzz-worthy topic at this year's VON show. But it still dominates.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Tim Beyers	Can VoIP Save You a Bundle? By now, you've probably heard of VoIP. It's arguably the cheapest way to call anyone anywhere, thanks to the vast infrastructure of the Internet. But is it for you or your business?