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Last week, the original founders of Skype came to a mutually agreeable solution with eBay to their disagreement about who owned what patents to the technology underlying Skype.
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Has Google found the final piece of its voice-calling puzzle? Rumors have it that the acquisition-happy search giant has acquired Gizmo5, a Skype-like VoIP startup. TechCrunch is reporting that Google has plunked down $30 million in cash for Gizmo5, which offers a software app that lets you make free phone calls to other Gizmo users, as well as inexpensive calls to landlines and cell phones. It …
eBay Settles Skype Litigation, Costing It Five Percent of Skype
eBay is giving up 5% of Skype (at a valuation of $135 million) to settle litigation with Skype founders. eBay announced that the investor group led by Silver Lake, which had previously entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Skype from the company, has reached a settlement agreement with Joltid Limited and Joost N.V. that gives Skype ownership over all software …
New Skype Competitor: Google May Acquire Gizmo5 For $30M
Google has reportedly acquired Gizmo5, which would let it tie together some of its own telephony applications into a potential VoIP competitor to Skype.
Lessons From the War Over Skype
The dust has settled, the ink on the deal has dried, and one of the biggest sideshows in Silicon Valley this year appears to be over . The litigation between eBay , the buyers of Skype and its original founders has been dropped, and the deal, which values Skype at $2.7 billion, should close soon.
Skype helps LaGrange school laud Mainers serving in Iraq
LAGRANGE, Maine — Thanks to an Internet video communication service called Skype, Jen Baker can talk to her husband, Tech. Sgt. Joe Baker, in Iraq from their home in town as many as three times a week.
International Children’s Charity Cuts Costs and Enhances Communications With VoSKY and Skype
Children International, a global charity helping children living in extreme poverty, has deployed VoSKY’s PBX-to-Skype Gateway to enable free Skype calling for employees, cutting the cost of long distance and international calls and improving collaboration and communication.
Skype links students to troops serving in Iraq
By Deb Pint, Correspondent It got up close and personal for some eighth-graders at Hidden Oaks Middle School in Prior Lake Nov. 4, when students visited via Skype video teleconferencing with servicemembers stationed in Iraq. The 15-minute conversation, part of the “Adopt-a-Troop” project, was the students’ first teleconference with the military soldiers. read more
Rdio: First Screenshots Leaked of Skype Founders’ New Music Service
We’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on leaked screenshots from one version of Rdio , the forthcoming music app from Skype, KaZaA and Joost creators Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom and Friis were the original financiers behind peer-to-peer file sharing site KaZaA , but Rdio won’t be following a free-for-all sharing model. Instead, Rdio will be a subscription music site similar to …
Solider station in Iraq visits daughters via Skype
Technology is helping families with those involved in the military stay in touch via the World Wide Web. It allows soldiers contact with their family members back home.
I’d love to have witnessed the scene at eBay’s house back in 2005 when the FedEx guy delivered their exciting new purchase… “Hey, guys! Skype’s arrived!” “Awesome! Quick – open it…” “Wait, what the hell… this isn’t what we ordered. It’s just a big box full of users with the word ‘Skype’ written on the side in Sharpie – none of the core p2p technology is in here.” “What? Didn’t you read the …
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