gigaom.com - 1/28/2009
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Should eBay spin off Skype? While it’s a bad time for eBay to try and spin off it or anything else as the company tries to refocus itself and save its core franchise of online auctions, the answer to that question is yes. Armed with comments made by eBay CEO John Donhaue, folks have ...
business.timesonline.co.uk - 1/26/2009
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business.timesonline.co.uk —
Speculation is mounting that eBay, the internet auction
website, is preparing to sell Skype, its internet telephone...
company. Industry insiders believe that eBay signalled its intent last week after John Donahue, its chief executive, described Skype ...
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Speculation grows over eBay plan to sell Skype internet ...
skype.com - 2/3/2009
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skype.com —
Windows Vista Certified System requirements PC running Windows
2000, XP or Vista. (Windows 2000 users require DirectX...
9.0 for video calls). Internet connection (broadband is best, GPRS is not supported for voice calls, and results may vary on a ...
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Skype 4.0 for Windows - Download the latest version of ...
skype.com - 2/3/2009
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skype.com —
Windows Vista Certified System requirements PC running Windows
2000, XP or Vista. (Windows 2000 users require DirectX...
9.0 for video calls). Internet connection (broadband is best, GPRS is not supported for voice calls, and results may vary on a ...
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Skype 4.0 for Windows - Download the latest version of ...
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Is eBay Warming Up The Skype Billion-Dollar Buyout Plan?
Techdirt —
... And thus the cycle begins again, with a figure of $900 million to $1.2 billion tossed out there as a potential starting point for the second version of the Skype Billion-Dollar Buyout Plan. What's interesting is that just like ...
First Bytes: AT&T, Obama, Filttr, Skype
Tech Observer —
... the iPhone. [Reuters] Jeffrey Sachs believes Obama can turn the crushing economic crisis into the launch of a new age of sustainable development. [Guardian] If there's just too much information on Twitter, Filttr is here to advise you on what's worth reading, and what's a waste by automatically filtering content from your followers. [Techcrunch] Om Malik thinks that it's time for eBay to let suitors like Yahoo and Microsoft court Skype. [Gigaom] by Joan R. Magee Related Links The Plot to Kill ...
Who is The Best Skype Suitor? Google, Microsoft or Yahoo?
Google Watch —
... Perhaps when the economy is in the black, but not now. Google doesn't need the users that much and seems more inclined to target mobile users as the next hot zone.
Cowen analyst Friedland chooses Microsoft as the likely suitor and I'd have to agree. Microsoft is always in the hunt for properties that will give it more Web cred, which it sorely lacks no matter how many ex-Yahoos it hires to boost search. Skype's user base would be a nice shot to revitalize its Internet arm.
Om Malik says Yahoo would be a great fit:
Yahoo is a much better ...
Why eBay Should Consider Breaking Itself Up [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Others need to be sold off or spun out. Om has discussed the merits of spinning off Skype. Stubhub.com would be more at home at Ticketmaster, and a company like Microsoft could make good use of StumbleUpon. But these companies, like everyone else, are in no mood to buy, so well-timed spin-offs may be the best option. ...
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Nokia to sell phones with Skype software
wired.com 2/17/2009 — BARCELONA (Reuters) - Internet calling company Skype has secured a deal with Nokia under which the world's biggest phone maker will preload Skype software into some of its new smartphones starting from the third quarter of this year.
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Skype To Give Away New SILK Audio Codec
techcrunch.com 3/4/2009 — Skype’s new state of the art speech codec SILK will be made available to third party licensees for free, the company is announcing later today. Skype GM Jonathan Christensen will be speaking about the new program at the eComm event in San ...
SKYPE IPO!
businessinsider.com 4/15/2009 — eBay is finally dumping Skype...on the public market! Specifically, it's planning to spin the company out in an IPO next year.
(In the meantime, by announcing the deal now, it can get investors excited about the separation and try to goad ...
Skype Means Business
blog.wired.com 3/24/2009 — Image via Wikipedia
Skype on Monday launched a new service to ease the transition of small business into internet telephony, a bid to capture some needed revenue by tapping into a new market it expects will find cheap phone service in a global ...
Skype Growing by 380,000 Users a Day
pcworld.com 2/11/2009 — The number of its users is growing by the population of Singapore (more than four million) every 12 days and nearly a third of its registered subscribers now use it for business purposes. As if to celebrate its fifth birthday, IP telephony service ...
@ MWC: Skype To Carriers: You Need Us Too, You Really Do
moconews.net 2/18/2009 — image Carriers have traditionally ruled the roost in the mobile world. But when the iPhone came along, they were forced to concede that device makers—or at least some of them—were as important as they were. Now, software providers are clamoring for ...
Build a Skype Server for Your Home Phone System
linuxjournal.com 11/28/2008 — One irritating feature of Skype is that it must be running on a computer for you to make and receive calls. That is, when your computer is off, Skype doesn't work. Moreover, when you run Skype on the computer you use day in and day out, Skype's ...
Skype handles more international calls than AT&T
arstechnica.com 3/24/2009 —
Skype might not be performing quite as well as parent company eBay would prefer a $2.6 billion acquisition to perform, but that hasn't dampened worldwide enthusiasm for the VoIP service. Skype is so popular, in fact, that new numbers out ...
Is eBay Ready To Start The Bidding For Skype?
businessweek.com 3/12/2009 — At its annual meeting today, eBay executives broke out more details about the health of its Skype unit than it has in the past. Turns out the Net phone calling software pioneer enjoyed 20% net income last year, on $550...
Is Skype for sale? —
CNET News.com 1/27/2009
Experts say that Skype is a bright spot in eBay's portfolio, and it will take a hefty offer for the company to sell.
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