{"id":546761,"date":"2005-09-12T08:52:19","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T08:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546761-ebay-eyes-skype.html"},"modified":"2005-09-12T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T08:52:19","slug":"ebay-eyes-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546761-ebay-eyes-skype.html","title":{"rendered":"eBay eyes Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The report says a deal would connect millions of eBay&#8217;s customers with Skype, but quotes sources close to the talks as saying the deal is far from concluded and could still fall through. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Despite some opposition to the move, analysts have conceded that Skype&#8217;s free calling service could serve as a useful additional feature for connecting buyers and sellers in the auction process. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Skype has about 52 million registered users for its free service and 2 million users for its pay-calling service, but has never officially revealed revenue or profit figures. Skype calls are free to other Skype users, but the company charges a fee to connect to traditional land-based telephones. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBay is in talks to acquire Internet-telephone company Skype Technologies, prompting a 4% drop in shares of the online auctioneer amid concern Skype could crimp eBay&#8217;s growth, reports eWeek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}