bloomberg.com - 7/30/2009
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July 29 (Bloomberg) -- EBay Inc. is building new software to run its Skype Internet-calling service, a bid to sidestep a licensing dispute with Skype’s founders, who have threatened to take back the underlying technology. The new software will be expensive and might not work, San Jose, ...
paidcontent.org - 7/23/2009
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paidcontent.org —
EBay said Wednesday that its plans to offload
Skype continued to progress, although executives notably did not...
refer to the possibility of an IPO, instead talking about “plans to separate” the business. In April, eBay ( NSDQ: EBAY ) said ...
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Earnings: EBay Says It's Making Progress On Skype ...
readwriteweb.com - 7/30/2009
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readwriteweb.com —
EBay is working on software to replace the
guts of Skype but is worried that it may...
not succeed, may lose a court battle with Skype's founders over rights to the core technology and may need to do something drastic some time over the next few years. ...
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Skype As We Know It May Not Exist Much Longer, eBay Says
techeblog.com - 7/24/2009
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techeblog.com —
If you're a Nintendo Game and Watch collector,
we've got just the eBay auction for you. Unfortunately,...
you'll have to shell out a hefty $10,999 for the collection. Auction page . Only a few ones remain without their box: Ball (Toss-up from ...
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eBay Watch: Every Nintendo Game and Watch Ever Released
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Is Skype In Danger?
I4U News —
... Here's a bit of bad news for those of us who use Skype as an alternative to having a home phone. A major dispute has arisen between the creators of the popular VOIP client and its new owner, Ebay. The auction site bought Skype back in 2005, but the rights to some of Skype's peer-to-peer technology are still owned by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom and Friis are the men behind the creation of both Skype and Kazaa, and they're also the founders of the company Joltid Ltd. Joltid wants to pull the P to P software they still own from Skype, which would render the ...
Report: eBay is building a Frankenskype
The Social —
... eBay wants to spin off telephony service Skype into a separate publicly traded company, but something's standing in the way: Skype's founders are threatening to take back some of the technology in the midst of a licensing dispute.
The auction giant's solution, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday: ...
Report: eBay is building a Frankenskype
Webware.com —
... eBay wants to spin off telephony service Skype into a separate publicly traded company, but something's standing in the way: Skype's founders are threatening to take back some of the technology in the midst of a licensing dispute.
The auction giant's solution, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday: Build a new one.
This was revealed in a 10-Q regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission; eBay is not commenting beyond the filing. You can decide whether "Frankenskype" or "Skypenstein" is a better name for the hypothetical creation. ...
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Skype's Troubled History With Ebay, in Links
paidcontent.org 9/1/2009 — Skype’s four year run under Ebay has been beset with troubles, and finally that is about to come to an end, as it gets sold to an investor group. The history of the marriage and pending divorce, in links (ascending chronological order): — ...
BREAKING: eBay to Announce Deal to Sell Skype
mashable.com 9/1/2009 — The fate of eBay-owned Skype has been in question for months now. Back in April, it looked as if eBay was going to spin-off the VoIP service as a publicly traded company . Now we’ve learned that Skype will be sold to private investors.
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Report: eBay is building a Frankenskype —
CNET News.com 7/30/2009
The auction company wants to spin off the telephony service it bought over four years ago, but rights to some of its software still remain with the company's founders. So eBay's trying to build a new one.
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