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EBay Mulling Skype Sale

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the do-you-hear-that-flushing-sound dept.

MaineCoasts writes "The Financial Times reports that eBay's new CEO is evaluating a sale of Skype if new ways cannot be found for the fast-growing service to support its core e-commerce business. EBay reported earlier this week that Skype had a 61 percent increase in first-quarter revenue over the same quarter last year and now has 309 million users worldwide."

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  1. Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I was actually just finishing up a post about the very same!

  2. Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Researchers from the University of Manchester have created some of the smallest transistors ever, measuring only one atom by 10 atoms. In other news, researchers have created a microscopic transistor that is still 100 times the size of Rob Malda's penis.