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InternetNews
May 26, 2006
David Miller |
Is 'Ya-bay' Gunning for Google? Yahoo and eBay's agreement to share core technologies in a deal unveiled Thursday has delighted analysts and investors, who say the joint venture will bring big benefits to both companies.   |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Terrible Timing, eBay! Could eBay have played the Skype acquisition any worse? |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2011
Tim Beyers |
Microsoft Needs a New Watch A small Skype glitch brings a bigger problem into sharp relief. |
The Motley Fool
May 10, 2011
Daniel James Hayden |
Microsoft May Return to Glory Days with Purchase of Skype This would be Microsoft's biggest acquisition ever. |
InternetNews
July 17, 2009 |
Microsoft and Yahoo Finally to Ink the Ad Deal? After a tortured year-and-a-half of stop-start negotiations, Microsoft and Yahoo could be getting close to signing a deal to partner in online advertising. Or not. |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! and eBay Start Smooching Two Internet bellwethers team up in a "best of breed" partnership that explores new advertising avenues. Investors, take note. |
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
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 18, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back Deals, debt, and divestitures smiled nicely for their portraits this week. |
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. |
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
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. |
Popular Mechanics
May 7, 2008
Nilay Patel |
The Microhoo That Would've Been--and Why It Might Not Matter It's probably for the best that the Microsoft-Yahoo deal is off, but on the surface, the takeover bid made perfect sense. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2006
Erin Joyce |
'People Ready' to Drive Microsoft's Growth Twenty years after Microsoft went public, the world's largest software company is sounding a new drumbeat about products in the pipeline that will fuel its next phase of growth. |
InternetNews
February 4, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Ballmer: Software Vision Will Continue Whether Microsoft wins or loses its bid to buy Yahoo, the company is on an inexorable path to fulfill its software-plus-services vision. |
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 1, 2009 |
eBay Sells Skype, Keeps Minority Stake The e-commerce giant finally unloads Internet phone unit Skype for $1.9 billion. |
InternetNews
February 8, 2008 |
Industry Abuzz on What's Next: Yahoo/Microsoft A major investor in Yahoo has met with Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to see if he would raise a $42 billion unsolicited offer for the company. |
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
February 5, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Ballmer Fills in 'Software-Plus-Services' Plan CEO Steve Ballmer talks up Microsoft's approach to services and how they integrate with its software products. |
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. |
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
July 28, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
A 'Premium' Promise Out of Redmond Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, says higher-priced versions of Windows and Office software for the enterprise will lead to growth in the sector. |
InternetNews
November 5, 2009 |
Ballmer: Yahoo Bing Deal Will Be Global Microsoft's fledgling deal with Yahoo may be broader than first assumed. |
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
February 1, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Microsoft Looks to Buy Yahoo Microsoft today announced a $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, looking to combine forces in a move to combat Google's dominant position in search and Internet advertising. |
InternetNews
August 28, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Google, eBay Make Nice on Text Ads, Click-to-Call Looking to shore up their position against Microsoft and Yahoo in the fiercely competitive market for Internet advertising services, Google and eBay struck a multi-year deal to work together on text-based and click-to-call advertising. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2009
Anders Bylund |
eBay Is $2 Billion Richer! eBay waves a tearful goodbye to Skype and pockets a cool $2 billion. Can you figure out why? |
InternetNews
March 6, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft CEO Holds Court on Vista, iPhone & Yahoo Steve Ballmer answers questions from an old nemesis about where Microsoft's future lies and why. |
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
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2011
Evan Niu |
After a Decade of Stagnation, Is This Tech Titan a Buy, Sell, or Hold? Will the next 10 years be better than the last? The past 10 years have not been kind to Microsoft shareholders. |
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
February 17, 2010
Tim Beyers |
You Blew It, eBay Look where Skype is now. |
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? |
InternetNews
January 6, 2011 |
Ballmer Hails Windows 7, Smartphone Successes At the annual Consumer Electronics Show gala, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer detailed new Xbox and Kinect features, touted the company's new PC and mobile operating systems. |
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. |
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
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
October 6, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Dueling Fools: eBay Bear Rebuttal With slower growth, a changing communications landscape, and smarter market-share-munching competitors, don't make the mistake of overpaying for eBay. |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2011
Rich Smith |
Mr. Softie Is Mr. Nice Guy? Microsoft promises to play nice in Europe. |
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. |
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. |
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
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? |
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? |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 23, 2011
Burrows & Galante |
Why Some Skypers Are Seeing Red Departing Skype employees have had their stock options zeroed out. |
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. |
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. |
