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Articles tagged with: Ebay
EBay completes sale of Skype for $2 billion
EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service. more
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Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure
Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places. more
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EBay settles lawsuit filed by Skype founders
EBay has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion. more
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Skype founders file lawsuit against eBay
A company owned by the founders of Skype has filed a copyright infringement suit against the Internet phone service and parent eBay - an action that could crimp eBay's plans to sell Skype for about $2 billion to a group of private investors. more
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EBay to sell part of telecom service Skype for $2B
EBay is trading control of the online telecommunications service Skype for about $2 billion, reversing a 2005 acquisition that many analysts considered a head scratcher from the beginning. more
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Smart phones defy slowdown - Nokia retains lead; Apple and RIM rising fast
Smart phones continue to shine as one of the brightest spots of the technology industry, with shipments growing despite the global recession. Innovation in interfaces, design, applications and promotion continue to excite consumers, which, in contrast to the PC industry, is helping to keep average selling prices stable. The rise in data traffic seen by mobile network operators is finally generating a return on their investment in broadband capacity and will drive further infrastructure expenditure. more
EBay working on alternative software for Skype
EBay 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. more
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eBay Confirms Skype Disposal - Via Stock Market Floatation
ebay has announced that it plans to separate Skype from the company, beginning with an initial public offering that is intended to be completed in the first half of 2010. Specific timing of the IPO will be based on market conditions. more
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Skype Founders Trying to Buy Back the Company
The two founders of the VoIP service provider, Skype are rumoured to be trying to buy the company back from ebay - whom they sold it to in 2005 for US$2.6 billion. The online auction firm brought Skype aiming to offer cheap voice calls linking buyers and sellers, but the idea did not catch on with their customers. more
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NFC Not an Answer for Mobile Payments, But Alternatives Offer Promise
Once, NFC (Near Field Communication) was the leading contender among technologies that could enable mobile payments. But NFC has developed more slowly than anticipated, and will not offer viable large-scale mobile payment solutions for at least six years. In the mean time three existing technologies - SMS, mobile Internet and downloadable mobile applications - have the potential to deliver what NFC (so far) cannot. more
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