Skype and eBay to Part Ways

[JMcEntegart]

Reports began trickling in late last night that eBay, the internet auctioneer, plans to spin off it’s VoIP business, Skype.

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[fuser]

This purchase never made sense to me. Spinning it off is a good way to give top executives a fat payday without calling it a "bonus".

 

[hellwig]

+1 fuser. Why eBay bought Skype I don't know. Its odd that it will remain a subsidiary and they aren't just selling it off. Probably don't want to admit $2.6b was a bit high.

We're having a second .com boom, only this time instead of millions in venture capital, websites are getting billions for buy-outs when the market just doesn't support it. I have to imagine the current market climate is going to bring an end to paying billions for websites like YouTube, Skype, Facebook, etc...

 

[outacontrolpimp]

umm, Youtube? im sure is worth more then several billions. More like hundreds of billions.

 

[gm0n3y]

"eBay, the internet auctioneer"

You know, in case you were wondering who they were. And I wonder what eBay was thinking when they bought Skype anyways. They must have had some plan for them.

 

[megabuster]

eBay was probably thinking of a live feed from the seller to his customers via skype instead of a e-mail question/answer based communication.