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eBay's Skype sale gets green light
News Zennström and Friis will take a 14 per cent stake in Skype, in return for contributing Joltid software and "significant capital investment". eBay has announced today that the sale of its controlling... [06 Nov 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. The investor group, which will take a roughly 65 per cent stake in... [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]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Niklas Zennström Skype While online advertising growth continues, there are significant benefits of scale in advertising platform economics, in capital costs for search index build-out, and in research... [01 Feb 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]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News Niklas Zennström Skype The data for the ranking was collected by market research company CXP in association with Truffle Capital, a private-equity firm. Bernard-Louis Roques, a general partner at Truffle... [22 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. If that wasn't enough, as Skype CEO, and co-founder back in 2003, Zennström remains... [12 Oct 2007]
Daniel Rimer
AS Profile He has invested heavily in big name start-ups such as Skype, online TV service Joost and social music site Last.fm. The importance of venture capital was stressed by another panel member who said the... [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: Is BT-FON deal a real mesh?
Leader The companies behind FON - Google, Skype, Index Ventures (of Skype and other fame), Sequoia Capital (too many tech successes to mention) and indeed now BT - know a thing or two about the... [04 Oct 2007]
eBay takes $900m hit for Skype buy
News Jordan Rohan, managing director and internet analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said: "The Skype service has been tremendously popular as a free service. Exactly how this would work is still unknown but for... [02 Oct 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]
Intel and Skype buddy up for better VoIP
News An Intel representative said Skype does not receive funds from Intel Capital, the chipmaker's investment arm. Intel is investing in VoIP giant Skype to make sure the company's software... [25 Aug 2005]
Skype gets down to business VoIP
News Skype uses peer-to-peer architecture, which requires absolutely no infrastructure and only minimal capital investment compared with phone companies that own their own lines and switches.... [07 Oct 2004]
Can Skype live up to the hype?
Comment Because of its peer-to-peer architecture, Skype requires absolutely no infrastructure and only minimal capital investment compared with phone companies that own their own lines and switches. Is... [28 Sep 2004]
