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Study: eBay, Yahoo among most trusted companies

Sep 17, 2009 No Comments

eBay is the most trusted company in terms of privacy, and Yahoo and Facebook are among the Top 10, according to a new report released on Wednesday. Following eBay is Verizon, the U.S. Postal Service, WebMD, IBM, Procter & Gamble, Nationwide and Intuit, with Yahoo and Facebook in the ninth and tenth spots, the study [...]

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Skype Founders Sue eBay — Big Surprise

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have sued eBay, the company that acquired their Internet telephony startup and turned them into billionaires. The lawsuit was filed by their company Joltid, which controls the core technology that powers Skype, in U.S. district court in Northern California. A similar battle is going on in a court [...]

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Investor Group Makes Play For Skype

Sep 01, 2009 No Comments

A group of well known venture capital and large private equity firms are pooling resources to make a bid to acquire eBay-owned Skype, according to a source close to the deal. Investors in the proposed purchase may include newly-formed Andreesen Horowitz, Index Ventures (who were early investors in Skype before the ebay acquisition), and one [...]

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Skype Sale Reported to be Announced Tomorrow

Sep 01, 2009 No Comments

Online telephony service Skype will be sold by eBay to a group of private investors, possibly including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s new venture capital group, and the deal will be announced on Tuesday according to a report by a team of reporters from the New York Times… Tweet This Post

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