Web Phone Company Skype is acquired by Ebay for $4.1 billion
September 14th, 2005 by Vamsi
$4.1 billion ?? :-O
Skype is the most popular VOIP tool available and its user database is really vast.
The current downlod count from Skype.com is 166,121,527 :-O
It has also got different versions for Windows, Mac, Linux & Pocket PC.
Finall after being most popular for all these years, it has got a competitior(Google).
Many people, including me were thinking Google will surely have a better voip tool. But now Ebay, the internet business giant acquiring Skype, can make a difference and may be developers at Google must be worried about putting more efforts to their own version of VOIP(Google Talk)
I was surprised when a collegue of mine pointed to this news.
But yes, I was always thinking of this news. But never expected Ebay in the buyers place.
You can read more about this news here:
eBay to Acquire Skype(at skype.com)
EBay Paying Up to $4 Bln for Web Phone Co. Skype(at nytimes.com)
2 Responses to “Web Phone Company Skype is acquired by Ebay for $4.1 billion”
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Ajay wrote on 09/19/05 at 1:13 pm :
Ebay is expanding its horizons. Lets hope things get better with Skype (not that anything was bad
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:: Vamsi Gangavalli Blog :: » Blog Archive » Skype goes video! wrote on 12/1/05 at 1:55 pm :
[…] After Ebay bought skype in mid september this year, I think this is the first major new feature that skype is adding to its IM Software. The Video version is in Beta now,. with a known bug: Calls to SkypeOut numbers are reporting “call failed” rather than “busy” if the recipient’s phone is busy […]