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eBay To Buy Skype For $2.6 Billion

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-lot-of-voice-communicating dept.

rfunches writes "It's not a rumour anymore. BBC News online reports that eBay will pay 'half the amount in cash and the other half in stocks to create an unparalleled e-commerce and communications engine'." The $2.6 billion purchase would give eBay access to the VoIP market, of which Skype claims it has 2 million users online at any given time. BBC speculates that eBay will use Skype to allow sellers and bidders to communicate via voice; I have also heard that live auctions a la Sothebys might also be a possibility. Also reported at Wall Street Journal (registration), New York Times."

6 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. Re:PRESIDENT BUSH FISHING IN NEW ORLEANS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Proof that you're even stupider than you appear:

    http://www.snopes.com/photos/katrina/recreate.asp

  2. Re:Thanks for the tip! by mrbill101 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Old news again. Sick io it.

  3. Re:Skype is a dead-end. by Donny+Smith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hah! Skype is isolated?

    YOU are isolated!

  4. fucK?er by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    of BSD/OS. A of events today, do 4nd doing what

  5. TROLL? WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    off topic maybe but not a troll.

  6. Re:What a shame... by aug24 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Its", "its", "its", "its", "its", "its"!

    Pronouns do not take possessive apostrophes!

    J.

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    You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.