Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Recently, we looked at the Skype sale drama, and now it appears as if there may be a shift in the deal. Both the NYTimes and GigaOM are reporting that a settlement may soon be reached between Skype co-founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom and the private investors acquiring the ...
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Recently, it was announced that eBay sold 65% of Skype to a consortium of private investors, led by Silver Lake for $2.75 billion. At first, this deal sounded great considering eBay purchased Skype for $2.6 billion in 2005 and was never was able to realize the original goal of integrating ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
For over five years, Skype has flown under the radar with their P2P based messaging system. Because of the distributed nature of P2P, they've been able to deploy a minimal amount of infrastructure to support their always-on solution. Unfortunately, we think that Skype/eBay is in for a rude awakening.
As last-mile ...
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