Skype Valued At 2.75 Billion And Sold To New Investors

Skype Sold Off Again.
Skype has new ownwers who share 65% of the company with ebay. The buyers, a group is led by Silver Lake Partners, joined by Index and Andreessen Horowitz Ventures.
Index members were also early investors of the now world class VoIP service.
Good luck Skype!
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Skype Being Sold To A Group Of Investors Today?

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Looks like Ebay is planing to sell skype to a group of private investors. The group of undisclosed group may include,   Marc Andreessen (Netscape Founder), Index Ventures, and Silver Lake Partners. We heard about these type skype for sale deals many a times.
The price is said to be below the $3.1 billion that ebay spent on the deal. But Ebay later on wrote down $900 million from the Skype's price mark.
Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who were also interested in purchasing Skype, are fighting with Ebay over core networking of Skype call technology.
NY Times

Skype For Sale? Again

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This we keep hearing over and over agin and today I saw another article on Times Online speculating on the same issue. But what ever the business case that Ebay/Skype has, I doubt they will be able to find someone to pay 2.6 billion for Skype Aquisition, (article suggesting that Google might suit the mold). But if they do, I will be glad, because there is still a chance that I could be a say millionaire!
Times online article, "Speculation grows over eBay plan to sell Skype internet telephone division"
Tags: VoIP business, skype, Ebay

Skype Lights Up Ebay Skies!

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Looks like Skype is making silver lightning in the Ebay's financial cloud, even though it a sliver, in the over all Ebay's revenue. Accounting to about 10% of the total revenue of Ebay. Skype is still climbing but it is slower rate than before.
Ebay released it's 3rd quater financial information; "Ebay Inc.today reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2008. The ecommerce company posted third quarter revenue of $2.12 billion, up $228 million from the same period last year. Net income on a GAAP basis was $492 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income was $592 million, or $0.46 per diluted share.
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• Skype surpassed 13 million concurrent users at certain peak times.
• Skype-to-Skype minutes reached nearly 16 billion, a 63% increase year over year."

Even though Skype is only one tenth of Ebays revenue, it is holding tough. Skype's revenues for the third quarter were $143 million, albeit with a slowing down growth rate, it is still growing.The growth is visible on it 46% annual and 5% sequential quarterly growth. Skype has 370 million users currently who consumed 16 billion minutes of talk time.

The annual growth rate of those minutes and the number of minutes people actually pay Skype for, Skype Out minutes, are showing helthier growth.

Hope Ebay will take more notice of these and make Skype even more prominent portion of it's business.

Tags: VoIP business, skype, Ebay