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eBay Inc. Announces Plan for 2010 Initial Public Offering of Skype - Yahoo! Finance
finance.yahoo.com - 4/14/2009
eBay Inc. Announces Plan for 2010 Initial Public Offering of Skype - Yahoo! Finance
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY - News ) today announced that it plans to separate Skype from the company, beginning with an initial public offering that is intended to be completed in the first half of 2010. Specific timing of the IPO will be based on market ...
blogs.wsj.com - 4/13/2009
Skype Founders Buyback EBay Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis Ebay Private Equity - Deal Journal
— blogs.wsj.com — A quartet of private-equity firms have joined forces for a leveraged buyout of a global telecommunications firm... with hundreds of millions of users. And no, this isn’t a blog post from 2006. A group including KKR, Warburg Pincus, Providence and ... (more) Skype Founders Buyback EBay Niklas Zennstrom and Janus ...

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Why eBay Should Accept Skype Founders’ Buyout Offer [GigaOM]
gigaom.com - 4/13/2009
Why eBay Should Accept Skype Founders’ Buyout Offer [GigaOM]
— gigaom.com — Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis were... in talks with private equity groups to raise about $1 billion and buy their Internet calling service back from eBay. They sold the company ... (more) Why eBay Should Accept Skype Founders’ Buyout Offer [GigaOM]

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L.A. Times Tech Blog:  EBay plans to spin off Skype in an IPO (or maybe sale)

GMSV:  The Great ESkype — eBay releases IPO plan

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EBay plans to spin off Skype in an IPO (or maybe sale)
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... "Separating Skype will allow EBay to focus entirely on our two core growth engines -- e-commerce and online payments -- and deliver long-term value to our stockholders," EBay Chief Executive John Donahoe said in a release. ...

The Great ESkype — eBay releases IPO plan
GMSV — ... sometime next year, depending on market conditions. Echoing what observers, analysts and investors have been saying pretty much since the purchase, eBay CEO John Donahoe explained , “Skype is a great stand-alone business with strong fundamentals and accelerating momentum, but it’s clear that Skype has limited synergies with eBay and PayPal. … Separating Skype will allow eBay to focus entirely on our two core growth engines e-commerce and online payments and deliver long-term value to our stockholders.” Skype is currently valued on eBay’s books at $1.7 billion after a 2007 ...

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