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Sky News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Skype's future has been secured after owners eBay finally sold a large proportion of the company by settling a legal row over rights to the web phone call technology.
SiliconRepublic.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Web-auction giant eBay has completed its sale of online telephony player Skype to an investor group led by Silver Lake and including two of Skype's founders in a deal valuing the business at US$2.75 billion.
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
US eBay action scooted over Atlantic Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis were told their case against Skype-owner eBay had to be conducted in the English courts on the day that they later agreed a compromise with eBay.… Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/skype_founders_ruling/
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
eBay rid of troublesome VoIP biz The saga of eBay’s sale of Skype is over – Silver Lake, Joltid Limited and other partners are now the proud owners of the VoIP provider.… Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/ebay_skype_closed/
ireland.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ebay said last night it had completed its sale of its Skype unit, as it had vowed to do before the end of the year.
SeekingAlpha Telecom Stocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tech Confidential submits: EBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY ) announced Friday that it has completed its spinoff of the Internet telephony unit to a consortium of investors that includes Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The deal values Skype at $2.75 billion, with the investor group getting 70% of the company and eBay retaining the rest. Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom...
The Register (Free subscription) | yesterday
eBay rid of troublesome VoIP biz The saga of eBay's sale of Skype is over - Silver Lake, Joltid Limited and other partners are now the proud owners of the VoIP provider.…
The Register (Free subscription) | yesterday
US eBay action scooted over Atlantic Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis were told their case against Skype-owner eBay had to be conducted in the English courts on the day that they later agreed a compromise with eBay.…
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch: Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation — eBay has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion. The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led …
TG Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Cnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nokia is cutting its R&D workforce, while eBay says goodbye to Skype. Hear more about these stories and others in today's episode.
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
San Jose, Calif. - Nearly three months after first announcing the deal, online auction giant eBay (NASD: EBAY) said that it has completed the sale of a majority stake in its Skype Internet telephone business to an investment group headed by Silver Lake Partners. Under the deal, the investor group -- which also included Joltid Limited, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz...
Xbitlabs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Skype No Longer Belongs to Ebay
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
The morning-after paperwork from eBay ( NSDQ: EBAY ) as control of Skype shifts to a private investment group led by Silver Lake Partners offers a look at the post-split financials for both companies—and the kind of detail on Skype we aren’t likely to see much of now that it’s no longer majority owned by a public company. According to the SEC filing embedded below, Sykpe ended Q3...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
It looks like the eBay-Skype spectacle has finally come to a close. Despite all of the arguments (legal and otherwise) that cropped up at one point or another, representatives of both companies announced last night that the sale of Skype to an investor group is complete. Josh Silverman, the president of Skype, adopted a rather enthusiastic approach when breaking the news. He wrote on the Share Skype...
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