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DONE DEAL: eBay Settles Skype Lawsuit, Founders Return

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:46:12 +0000

After a saga that simply defied explanation, the eBay/Skype lawsuit has finally been settled. The founders of Skype have returned to their creation. A recap of the story: eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion back in 2005. Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, got off with ...

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Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10%

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:11:23 +0000

eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype , clearing the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners , Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. ...

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The Five Thousand Volt Soda Can Crusher

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:18:17 +0000

Bob Davis picked up a five thousand volt power supply on Ebay. Not having many things around the house which required that kind of power, he turned it to more fun uses. Bob stripped the unit down to the supply itself, a huge 100 microfarad capacitor and a (broken) meter. After hooking ...

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EBay Settles Suit of Sale of Skype

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:15:41 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO EBay has formally settled the litigation around its sale of the Skype online calling service. The founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, will drop their lawsuits against the company and a consortium of buyers whose bid to purchase 65 percent of Skype was announced ...

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Andreessen On Skype: “This Is One Of The Most Important Companies On the Internet.”

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:07:48 +0000

Earlier this morning, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis settled their lawsuits with eBay and a syndicate of investors in return for a 14 percent stake in the company they founded. The lawsuits were complicating the spin-off of Skype from eBay because the Skype founders still controlled the ...

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Skype Founders Said to Join Investor Group in Buyout (Update2)

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:12:14 +0000

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The founders of Skype have agreed to join the investor group buying the Internet calling service from EBay Inc. , and an announcement may come today, according to people familiar with the matter. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis , who sold Skype to EBay in 2005, will take ...

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eBay Dealhunter Challenge update

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:11 +0000

As I told you in the last post Fosfor was part of the eBay Dealhunter Challenge , so I just wanted to share what I’ll send in to the judges. It was quite a challenge to find something cool that the seller also could ship to Europe (most of the sellers only shipped to US and ...

svardh@gmail.com posted 2 days ago from fosfor.com

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Video Clip: EBay's New Ad Campaign

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:00:42 +0000

Watch one of EBay's commercials for its new ad campaign "Come to think of it, EBay." Courtesy of EBay.

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eBay Dealhunter Challenge

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:49:46 +0000

Fosfor has been invited to the eBay Dealhunter Challenge, where we shall try and do a nice bargain on eBay and find something that meet the following criterias, or some of the criterias. * Authentic (not fake) * Limited edition * Hard to find e.g. Not available in their ...

svardh@gmail.com posted 10 days ago from fosfor.com

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Shoppers spent $400 million with eBay's iPhone app

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:10:05 +0000

Some numbers that will blow your socks off. According to the Financial Times , shoppers have spent more than $400m this year on eBay using eBay's iPhone app . More than 4.6m people have downloaded the wBay app , using it to buy not just books and clothes, but also a Lamborghini, a ...

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eBay Watch: Microwaved Nintendo Wii Selling for $5,998

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:15:53 +0000

For $5,998 on eBay , you could purchase a Microwaved Wii , which was "created through the unique art of microwaving by one of the most prominent entertainers and artists on the web." Auction page . Video after the break. Kenny Irwin originals are projected to only increase in value as a ...

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Shoppers To Spend $400 Million On eBay This Year … Using Its iPhone App

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:05:26 +0000

Holy m-commerce, Batman! According to eBay CEO John Donahoe , shoppers have already spent about $400 million on the popular commerce site using the company’s free iPhone application . Ok, the shopping part of eBay’s business brought in $1.4 billion in revenue just last quarter , ...

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world’s largest lego mario up for auction: its’a huge

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:50:00 +0000

This unbelievable bit of geek art is purportedly the largest LEGO block statue of Mario ever created. It sure looks like it to me. And it’s definitely WAY bigger than this one . The mammoth LEGO Mario was created by Dirk VH , and is made up of over 40,000 individually placed bricks. ...

Tech Blog found this 13 days ago on technabob.com

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Infamous Motorized La-Z-Boy Hits eBay

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:24:27 +0000

Hell yeah, it's fast. The bumper sticker on a motorized chair driven while the driver was intoxicated says so.

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EBay Comes Out of the Attic and Starts a Fashion Magazine

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:23:38 +0000

The Inside Source, a new online magazine from eBay, publishes stories about fashion and decorating trends while pitching products on eBay.

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PayPal Hopes Open Platform Will Spur Innovation

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:00:22 +0000

In November, eBay's PayPal unit will open its platform to developers who want to build applications that use PayPal's online-payment technology.

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