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News eBay has announced today that the sale of its controlling stake in VoIP service Skype will go ahead, following the settlement of litigation over the proposed transaction. For more on this story see... [06 Nov 2009]
HP welcomes Marc Andreessen to board
News He also sits on the boards of eBay and Facebook. Since then, Andreessen, best known as the co-founder of Netscape, has helmed social network creation service Ning, and a new venture capital firm... [18 Sep 2009]
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News Ecommerce giant eBay announced on Tuesday that it's selling its Skype unit to an investor group that includes entrepreneur Marc Andreessen's new venture. Under the deal, eBay will receive approximately... [01 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News eBay is expected to announce today that it has reached a deal to sell its internet telephone service, Skype, to a group of private investors, the New York Times reported on Monday. A price was not revealed but previous... [01 Sep 2009]
Nokia gets out its wallet for mobile payments
News There are also competing payment services, like eBay's PayPal Mobile. Previously Obopay had raised about $69m in funding mostly from venture capital firms. Nokia, the world's largest mobile maker, likes... [25 Mar 2009]
Has tech got the power to punch through the crunch?
News The bad news is starting to pile up: eBay recently decided to lay off 1,000 workers, a long list of smaller internet outfits have begun cutting jobs, and most industry watchers expect Yahoo! With Wall Street teetering... [21 Oct 2008]
Facebook to set up international home in Dublin
News Google and eBay all have offices in Dublin as well, and Dell has chosen another Irish city, Limerick, for its European headquarters. As it expands across the globe, social network Facebook will establish its official... [03 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.09.08
Round-Up Of course, if you want one for yourself, the other option is eBay, where a classic 'K6' red phone box, first introduced in 1936, will go for anything from £300 for one in need of restoration, to almost £4,000 for a fully... [26 Sep 2008]
eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat
News Most of Romania's law enforcement efforts are concentrated on its capital, Bucharest, but most of the cases identified during the crackdown were coming from smaller towns, where the eBay team sometimes... [10 Mar 2008]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment Media within the enterprise has come of age after a series of landmark multi-billion dollar acquisitions including Google buying YouTube for $1.65bn, eBay acquiring Skype for $2.6bn and News Corp's $580m purchase of... [29 Nov 2007]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile Niklas Zennström may have sold Skype to eBay in 2005 but that wasn't the end of the story for this serial entrepreneur. In May it picked up $45m in funding from venture capital firms. His latest venture... [12 Oct 2007]
eBay takes $900m hit for Skype buy
News Don't call it a bust just yet but it's fair to say eBay executives aren't thrilled with what they're getting out of Skype, which the auction king bought for $2.6bn two years ago.eBay has now said it will... [02 Oct 2007]
Who's afraid of user-generated content?
News Last week, New Media Age reported that adverts for Capital One, eBay, First Direct, LoveFilm and Vodafone were appearing alongside the official Facebook group page of controversial political... [06 Aug 2007]
eBay cracks down on Romanian con artists
News Online auction site eBay has made public the details of a three-year-long campaign to curb online fraud being perpetrated by criminals in Romania - an effort that has resulted in several hundred arrests. [28 Jun 2007]
Skype backers walk away with awards
News Index Ventures, the venture capital company that backed voice over IP phenomenon Skype and saw it sold to eBay in a deal worth up to $4.1bn last year, walked away with the VC of the Year and the Deal of... [22 Feb 2006]
