The surprise. In fact someone buying Skype is no surprise at all. eBay never did anything great with it, or at least, never did what was planned : enhance the purchase experience in between buyers and sellers. Skype seems a doomed well working service. Everybody uses it, but no one can extend what it does [...]
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eBay to $ell $kype !
So the new kid on the block called Skype is no longer stellar ? Buyers are Siler Lake VCs for a $1,9 billion package (65% of shares). eBay couldn’t eventually find a realy synergy for Skype and it’s core e-commerce bussiness. Does it mean that the 405 millions Skype users don’t need to talk about [...]