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eBay Will Sell Majority Stake in Skype to Private Investors

September 1st, 2009 | No Comments

eBay plans to sell 65 percent of its stake in Skype, the popular Internet-based calling service, to a group of private investors that include Marc Andreessen’s venture-capital firm. Although the acquisition of Skype by eBay appeared promising, a lawsuit and other issues prevented the original deal from reaching its full potential, despite robust revenue and user numbers. Analysts suggest that the private investor group may have big plans for Skype.
– Four years after acquiring Skype Technologies, eBay
plans to resell a majority share of the Internet-based calling service to a
team of private investors for $1.9 billion in cash.

The investor group, headed by Silver Lake Partners and including Marc
Andreessen’s venture-capital firm Andreesse…



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eBay reaches deal to sell Skype

September 1st, 2009 | No Comments

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Online auction site eBay is poised to say it has agreed to sell internet phone company Skype, reports say.

Skype is expected to be sold to a group of private investors, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and private equity firms.

EBay has been trying to sell Skype for some time, and has said that Skype had "limited synergies" with it.

When eBay bought Skype for $2.6bn (£1.6bn) in October 2005, many analysts thought the price was too high.

For sale

The New York Times said that a price has not been named, but that eBay had been seeking about $2bn for Skype.

Earlier this year, eBay had said that it planned to spin off Skype and list its shares in the first half of 2010, an announcement many took as a signal that the firm was for sale.

Skype’s software lets computer and mobile phone users talk to each other for free and make cut-price calls to mobiles and landlines.

Unlike traditional mobile calls, which are transmitted over a cellular network, Skype turns your voice into data and sends it over the internet.

Since being acquired, the number of registered Skype users has risen to 405 million from 53 million, though free user-to-user calls still dominate the service.

This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

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eBay iPhone app gets update

August 13th, 2009 | No Comments

eBay is the top auction website online and has tons of products for shoppers and lots of buyers for sellers. It’s a win-win situation often, though many of use loathe eBay policies. eBay has had an iPhone app available for a long time now and the app has been given an update.

The new release now [...]

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Miley Cyrus eBay Charity Auction

August 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Miley is giving you the clothes off her back.

The teen queen is holding an eBay auction to sell off some personal items to raise money for her family charity, The Pappy Cyrus Family Foundation.
The auction runs through Aug. 13.

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Spare Coldplay gig tickets on sale for 60p!

August 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Tickets for popular Brit band Coldplay’s latest tour have been put up for grabs for just 60p.
The spare tickets, that were said to have a face value between 20 and 60 pounds, were allegedly being off-loaded for just a dollar – or 60p.
StubHub, the ticketing arm of eBay, which serves as an online marketplace for [...]

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Deciding What to Sell on eBay

August 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Almost everybody has dreams of the day that they will be able to leave their job and set up on eBay as a way to provide for them and their families. Being self employed on eBay seems like a dream for many people. Being your own boss would be fantastic. However it can be very [...]

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EBay working on alternative software for Skype

August 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

SAN FRANCISCO (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.
In a filing this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission, eBay said it has started developing an alternative to [...]

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”Biohackers” cooking up mutant microbes at home using Ebay, YouTube

August 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Amateur scientists have apparently been cooking up mutant microbes at home with help from popular websites Ebay and YouTube.
The “biohackers” were said to have assembled makeshift gene laboratories in their own homes and were creating genetically-engineered bugs.
Kay Aull, Boston, said she purchased all the material required from websites such as eBay to make genetically engineer [...]

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Skype-Joltid Dispute Presents an Opportunity for Google Voice

July 31st, 2009 | No Comments

eBay reports in an SEC filing that Skype is embroiled in a software licensing lawsuit with Joltid, forcing eBay to write its own VOIP software in case Skype loses. While some wonder if the dispute will impede eBay’s planned IPO for Skype, others see Skype’s troubles as a chance for Google Voice to grow.
– Skype continues to be one of the biggest headaches for a parent company.
In a legal dispute that may delay eBay’s plans to spin off its Skype Web calling
service and is certainly forcing eBay to write its own software, Skype and
startup Joltid are suing each over a dispute about software source …



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Will Kim Kardashian sell ex-beau Reggie Bush’’s Clothes for charity?

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

While Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush have called it quits, many are wondering whether the former will sell off her ex-beau’s clothes as part of their eBay charity auction.
The duo, who parted ways amicably, used to sell their goods together on Kim’s eBay site.
And now that the socialite is cleaning out her wardrobe with a [...]

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Yahoo revamps its iPhone homepage, adds sync

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Yahoo unveiled a new homepage for the iPhone’s Safari browser and invites you to sync the modules (“My Favorites”) between the PC and your iPhone. It allows user to sync changes on the iPhone’s newly design site, and vice versa.
iPhone users can view the new home page at m.yahoo.com, which comes up with three tabs: [...]

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JK Rowling’s chair fetches £20K on eBay

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s chair, sitting in which she wrote the first two books of the famous series, has been re-sold for a whopping 20,000 pounds.
The value of the chair, which was previously sold for 15,000 pounds, has increased three-fold in the last seven years.
The chair was once merely the most comfortable of a [...]

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Fake Internet postcards linked to most prevalent U.S. computer virus

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

A University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) expert has warned that fake Internet postcards circulating through e-mail inboxes across the world are carrying links to the virus called Zeus Bot
Gary Warner, director of computer forensics at the UAB, says that Zeus Bot has been named America’’s most pervasive computer Botnet virus by Network World magazine, [...]

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Are You Being Phished?

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Ever got one of those emails asking you for your credit card details? Most likely it’s a phishing scam. Usually, the emails look pretty legitimate, and it can really be confusing to figure out the real emails from the scammers.
Well, worry no more. The Gmail team knows how hard it is to figure out the [...]

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Ronnie Wood painted as vampire by dumped wife’’s fuming brother

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

A portrait of Rolling Stones member Ronnie Wood painted by his estranged wife’s brother shows him as a vampire.
Wood cheated on his wife Jo with Russian beauty Ekaterina Ivanova.
And now Jo’s sibling Paul Karslake has expressed his anger by showing him sucking blood of a blonde in his oil painting.
“I don”t hate the bloke, [...]

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Jackson memorial tickets offered on eBay

July 6th, 2009 | No Comments

• Fans offering memorial tickets for thousands of pounds
• eBay taking down auctions relating to memorial service

It was the hottest ticket in town. Over 1.6 million Michael Jackson fans applied to attend tomorrow’s (Tuesday 7 July) memorial service to the King of Pop. And yesterday, 8,750 successful entrants reacted to an email that read: “Congratulations, your application was successful.”

Some fans were delighted, such as Deka Motanya from San Francisco, who tweeted: “OMG OMG OMG OMG I got tickets to the Michael Jackson memorial service.” Others, however, viewed it as an opportunity to make money.

Twitter users such as Unai Montes-Irueste were accepting offers from bidders on tickets to the event. Meanwhile, others were selling tickets for thousands of pounds on eBay in exchange for the relevant vouchers and codes. However, eBay has since informed the Guardian that they are actively taking down all auctions for Michael Jackson memorial tickets.

Some sites have debated the moral implications of fans selling tickets to a memorial service, whereas SouthFlorida.com ran a poll asking readers what they would do had they won tickets.

Each of the 8,750 randomly selected applicants will receive two tickets to the ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. According to event spokesman Michael Roth, wristbands will be issued and organisers will check ID to make sure that names correspond with those of online applicants. However, Roth admitted that ticket touting was inevitable, as winners could give their second wristband to anyone. “Theoretically, the second wristband can be sold,” he said.

Despite the potential financial rewards, some Jackson fans will be determined to attend no matter what. Alex Garcia tweeted: “Holy shit I got tickets to #MichaelJackson Memorial! I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! WOW.” Later tweets revealed his enthusiasm hadn’t dimmed. “Going to get 3 hours of sleep then off to LA to my Tickets,” he posted, adding: “I am probably the only person in escondido, ca :)”

The memorial service will be broadcast live on five television networks. LA officials are still working towards making the event safe after reports of huge crowds descending on the venue.

Jackson died on 25 June after going into cardiac arrest in the bedroom of his rented mansion. He was 50.

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