Skype
eBay Trying To Sell Off StumbleUpon
This is actually Mike Arrington story, but Peter Kafka asks a good question here. After buying the website recommendation engine StumbleUpon for a crazy $75 Million, eBay is now trying to sell it off. more... Discuss | | by Jitendra 73 days ago (alleyinsider.com)Joost To End Desktop Client Version
After raising a whopping $45 Million in VC money, after luring away Cisco executive Mike Volpi to become the CEO, Joost the startup founded by the Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström seems more... Discuss | | by Jitendra 87 days ago (gigaom.com)iSkoot acquires Social.IM
VoIP provider and a startup iSkoot, who has friendly ties with carriers because it uses their networks for completion of its calls, is acquiring the social networking based IM provider Social.IM for an more... Discuss | | by Jitendra 87 days ago (venturebeat.com)Startup Exits: On performance based earnouts
M&A transactions in the world of startups conjure up lots of dreamy numbers and Ed Sim is now turning his lenses on the E-Bay and Skype deal, in which 40% of the earnout was based on performance, as a more... Discuss | | by Jitendra 412 days ago (beyondvc.com)Skype Co-Founder Defends Its Value
Niklas Zennstrom quit Skype last week as the CEO but was retained by eBay as a non-executive chariman. Niklas feels that they tried to monetize Skype a little too soon and must have waited a little bit. more... 1 Comment | | by Vic 418 days ago (nytimes.com)Skype Founder says eBay Overpaid for Skype
Niklas Zennstrom was speaking at a tech conference in Budapest and said that eBay had over-estimated the valuation of Skype in the first place and that is a surprisingly candid comment to make. more... 1 Comment | | by Jitendra 419 days ago (blogs.wsj.com)Skype Co-Founder Resigns as CEO
Niklas Zennstrom, who co-founded Skype and had served as CEO since eBay acquired the company, has resigned. He will remain as the non-executive chairman of Skype’s Board of Directors. Michael van Swaaij more... Discuss | | by Ipod 427 days ago (mashable.com)Sky-Click - Your web call-center with Skype
Switzerland based Sky-Click is a an interesting idea released by Ads-Click that already launched a white label adwords/adsense-like plateform (used by Wanadoo ISP in Europe) as well as a pay-per-call ad more... Discuss | | by Vic 445 days ago (techcrunch.com)BT buys Ribbit and guns for Android and Skype
Billing itself as Silicon Valley's first internet phone company, Ribbit's chief Ted Griggs is a happy man. BT is buying this startup for about $105 Million and Ribbit is all happy and gushing at this more... 1 Comment | | by Jitendra 125 days ago (news.zdnet.co.uk)« previous1 next »
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