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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.   |
InternetNews
September 12, 2005
Erin Joyce |
eBay to Acquire Skype For $2.6 Billion Online auction giant eBay is expanding its communications services with a $2.6 billion cash and stock deal to acquire Voice over IP darling Skype Technologies. |
InternetNews
July 31, 2009 |
EBay's Skype IPO Bungled? The e-commerce giant is trying to resolve a key licensing issue with the founders of Skype. |
InternetNews
November 6, 2009 |
eBay, Skype Founders Settle Fight The ownership brawl over the VoIP player's peer-to-peer technology finally draws to an end - who's left standing? |
InternetNews
September 15, 2005
Tim Gray |
eBay's Big Buy Leaves 'em Guessing Before the ink could dry on Internet auction giant eBay's $2.6 billion deal to acquire VoIP titan Skype this week, industry analysts were delivering mixed reviews on the move. |
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
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. |
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 1, 2009 |
eBay Sells Skype, Keeps Minority Stake The e-commerce giant finally unloads Internet phone unit Skype for $1.9 billion. |
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
September 17, 2009 |
Deja Vu: Skype Founders and eBay in Legal Spat The founders of the Skype are suing eBay and future suitors for $75 million a day in damages for copyright violation. |
Inc.
December 2005
Michael Fitzgerald |
Honorable Mention: The $2.6 Billion Men In 2002, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis launched Skype, a free Internet phone service. In September, they sold it - for a sum that still has Wall Street and Silicon Valley reeling. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2010
Tim Beyers |
You Blew It, eBay Look where Skype is now. |
InternetNews
December 13, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
EBay Vendors Demand to be Skyped So why aren't eBay and Skype fully integrated yet? |
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
March 21, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Skype Means Money Investors, did eBay pay too much for Skype? I don't think so. In a few years, we may look back at it as the new economy bargain of the decade. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2007
Morgan Housel |
Skype CEO Hangs Up on eBay ... Again Skype founder and former CEO Niklas Zennstrom admits that eBay overpaid for the online telephone company. |
InternetNews
June 14, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Ebay Hypes Skype Integration eBay plans to integrate Skype, its $2.6 billion Voice over IP investment, into more than a dozen categories of listings. |
InternetNews
November 29, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Skype Takes Another EBay Exec Henry Gomez will spearhead Skype's North American VoIP expansion. |
InternetNews
August 20, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Skype's Back But For How Long? EBay's Voice over IP company Skype is blaming last week's two-day outage on "massive restart" of user computers across the globe. |
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 20, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
No Business Like Bid Business eBay has a ho-hum quarter, but that's better than nothing. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
April 23, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Skype Has Bigger Fish to Fry eBay's Skype is introducing a $9.95-per-month global plan that will allow users to call out to any mobile or landline phone in 34 countries. |
InternetNews
August 10, 2010 |
Skype Going Public With $100M IPO Pioneering voice-over-Internet-protocol provider Skype announces plans to go public, hoping to raise more than $100 million, according to a filing with the SEC. |
The Motley Fool
April 12, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Skype Swallows Sonorit eBay gears up for a potential challenge to its Skype service with a brainy acquisition. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 8, 2005
Tim Gray |
EBay to Buy Skype? The rumored buy would make it easier for eBay users to communicate with each other. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Skype 1.4 Rolls Out the Door While Skype execs were negotiating a blockbuster sale, its developers were hard at work. What's new? |
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. |
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
September 1, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Terrible Timing, eBay! Could eBay have played the Skype acquisition any worse? |
InternetNews
September 28, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Skype Grows Up With Devs in Mind Skype adds a Web service to let developers know it's more than just a place to make cheap phone calls. |
InternetNews
January 28, 2009
Judy Mottl |
Hold the VoIP: Skype Sale Rumors Flying Comments from parent company on last week's earnings call have kept the buzz alive over whether eBay's selling Skype. |
InternetNews
October 20, 2009 |
eBay Q3 Preview: Slow and Steady Wins the Race? All eyes will be on eBay tomorrow to see if the e-commerce giant's restructuring strategy is paying off. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Skype Sticks With GIPS Skype extends and expands its contract with Global IP Sound as it eyes the mobile market. |
InternetNews
October 10, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
eBay Hops on Social Network Money Train eBay is hoping to capitalize on social networking, with the company today unveiling a new area of its site called eBay Neighborhoods. |
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
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
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
October 20, 2005
Jeff Hwang |
eBay's Q3 So-So The online auctioneer posts solid but modest results in the third quarter. While the merits of the Skype acquisition -- the largest in eBay's history -- can be debated, a good case can be made for eBay's long-term future. |
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? |
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
October 19, 2005
Paul Shread |
eBay Investors Turn Picky Investors scoff at eBay's solid results and remain skeptical about eBay's purchase of Skype... Juniper beat estimates... Intel had a disappointing sales forecast... The Nasdaq and Dow soared... Yahoo and Motorola both rose on results... etc. |
InternetNews
July 22, 2009 |
eBay Tops Estimates as Profits Plunge 29% eBay's core business continues its woes, but executives point to signs of stability and strength at PayPal and Skype. |
InternetNews
May 24, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
StreamCast Takes Legal Aim at eBay's Skype StreamCast Networks, owner of the Morpheus peer-to-peer software, is suing eBay and 21 others for allegedly infringing on its rights among other claims. |
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. |
