O2, a division of Telefonica, a Spanish telecommunications company, is in talks to acquire Jajah, a VoIP startup, for about $200 million, Reuters reported today… Tweet This Post

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 [...]

Skype, which was recently sold by eBay to VC firms Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, has announced that it is killing its Developer Program. The program, called “Extras,” allows third-party developers to build applications, both hardware and software, on top of Skype… Tweet This Post

Skype, the popular peer-to-peer VoIP service, just announced that it will soon shut down a large part of its developer program and shutter its Extras service, which allowed third-party developers to develop applications that enhanced the core functionality of Skype and sell them in Skype’s own online store. Starting today, Skype will no longer accept [...]