eBay selling Skype

[rpm]

EBay announced on Tuesday that it was selling Skype to a group of investors for 1.9 billion dollars and retaining a 35 percent stake in the Internet communications firm.

 

[antowan]

Significant! Not that much money bit still a truckload full...

 

[cavedog]

Skype suck since they removed the skypecasts. When they removed the skypecast i never used skype again. Skypecast was so cool!

 

[thedutchman]

skypecast ?? wtf is that ?

 

[cavedog]

You create a room. And random people from all over the world could have joined. So you have the host me or who ever creates the cast and about 50-100 people from all over the world actually anyone can join. And then you can chat about anything.

Politics,race,travel,english basiclly anything. it was so nice for hours a day I was in the skypecasts.

The old links to skypecasts. http://skypecasts.skype.com/intl/en/
Which is no longer available.

 

[Lobesy]

Oh man, I saw the article title and thought someone had sold Skype through eBay.

 

[kronoSX]

Oh man, I saw the article title and thought someone had sold Skype through eBay.

me to..lol

 

[tco21]

This was foreseeable. Skype is becoming less of an asset and more of a liability.

 

[diabolus]

And the more interesting part, this group investors consists of the founder of Netscape, Marc Andreessen .
This same guy recently announced development of a new browser "from scratch" called RockMelt ...so i'm wondering what they're up to

 

[tco21]

Cool, browser-integrated VOIP.

 

[Lazy]

I absolutely hate the newer versions of skype. Thanks to oldversion.com I can still run version 3.8.

 

[Abe]

You need to read this article in conjunction with the following one:

The internet auction company paid a total of $3.1bn for the telephone service between 2005 and 2007 and is now locked in a legal battle with the technology's owner, Joltid, a company owned by Skype's founders. That may make it impossible for eBay to follow its plan to float Skype on the stock market next year – and give one of Skype's creators, Niklas Zennström, the upper hand in any negotiations. Zennström has been angling to buy the company back.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/01/ebay-case-threatens-skype-shutdown

Also, they originally paid $2.015 for the 65% that they are selling so this piece is being sold at a $100 million loss.