eBay to sell Skype to investor group, to retain 35 pct stake (Update)
Online auction giant eBay announced Tuesday it has agreed to sell 65 percent of its stake in Skype to a group of investors in a deal that values the Web communications service at 2.75 billion dollars.
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Vonage makes free international calls standard
(AP) -- Unlimited domestic phone calls are nearly standard feature for landline plans these days. Now, Vonage Holdings Corp., which helped pioneer that feature with its Internet phone service, is expanding it to most international ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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EBay working on alternative software for Skype
(AP) -- EBay Inc. is developing software it might use to continue running the online telecommunications service Skype if it cannot resolve a legal dispute with a separate company run by the service's founders.
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Economy keeps hurting eBay as 2Q profit falls
(AP) -- The recession continued to hurt eBay Inc. in the second quarter, as earnings and revenue fell amid a sales decline in the main online marketplace, overshadowing growth in the PayPal online payments ...
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Cuba criticizes Microsoft blocking Messenger
(AP) -- Cuba criticized Microsoft on Friday for blocking its Messenger instant messaging service on the island and in other countries under U.S. sanctions, calling it yet another example of Washington's "harsh" ...
May 30, 2009 |
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EBay plans IPO for Skype, undoing $2.6B-plus deal
(AP) -- EBay Inc. plans to spin off its Internet communications service Skype through an initial public offering, undoing a $2.6 billion acquisition that puzzled analysts and eBay struggled to justify.
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Skype founders looking to buy back company
The two founders of Skype are seeking to buy back the hugely popular Internet telephone service that they sold to online auction giant eBay in 2005, according to US media reports.
Apr 11, 2009 |
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Skype on the iPhone: Worth the download
When I first heard about Skype coming out on the iPhone, A LOT of stuff went through my mind:
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Apr 08, 2009 |
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Researchers enhance spam call filtering
Researchers in Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT are developing a new system for filtering spam calls in a flexible way. Spam calls (junk calls or Spam for Internet Telephony, SPIT) are unwanted calls often ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 03, 2009 |
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