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So, now the acquisition everyone have been waiting for: online auction company eBay bought Voice over IP-company Skype for a staggering 2,6 Billion dollars US!!!

2,6 Billion Рtaste that number!!! If swedish Niklas Zennstr̦m and danish Janus Friis stays in the company until 2008 and certain goals are achieved, another 1,5 Billion dollars US will be paid out.

The figures are incredibly high, and I won’t comment if it’s too high or not, or say that this is “the new Internet-bubble”, but I will say that eBay will implement Skype’s technology so that auctioneers will be able to voice-chat with each other instantly, and that this feature will make Skype the biggest VOIP-client out there. This was actually a totally logic acquisition by eBay.

For more information:

eBay webast
article in Financial Times
Download Skype

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