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• From the Department of Oh No, She Didnt: Whitman Defends eBays Skype Debacle

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  If spinning is an intense political skill, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is doing her very best at trying to create a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. As Om Malik reports on GigaOm , Whitman–who is trying to nab the Republican gubernatorial nomination for California–told a radio interviewer recently that ...
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• Google acquires Gizmo5 to take on Skype. Deal valued at US$ 30 Million.

  
  Wireless Federation — Authority: 417
  Google has been on the prowl acquiring some strategic companies in what could be termed as the next frontier. After acquring Admob, Techcrunch has reported that it is to acquire VOIP Start-up Gizmo5 for about USD 30 Million.The deal comes after Skype successfully negotiated a deal with its former owners Niklas ...
  5 days ago

• The Skype Legal Battle Finally Ends .

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 604
  The long standing legal stand off between Skype, a leading online communications network and one of the largest online shopping websites, eBay has finally come to end with the founders of Skype being awarded a 14% stake in the company along with two seats on Skype’s board of directors. eBay retains 30% rights on ...
  1 week ago

• Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling [Hackfights]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  Youd think tech bloggers would learn from the peacemaking founders of Skype, who just dropped lawsuits holding back the $2.8 billion sale of their former company. Instead the writers are calling one...
  1 week ago

• Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling

  
  Gawker: valleywag — Authority: 650
  Youd think tech bloggers would learn from the peacemaking founders of Skype, who just dropped lawsuits holding back the $2.8 billion sale of their former company. Instead the writers are calling one another inaccurate, spineless "toddlers." Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are dropping suits ...
  1 week ago

• eBay settles Skype software suit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  San Francisco, Nov 7 (DPA) E-commerce giant eBay has settled its long-running legal feud with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for a $2-billion sale of the internet telephony pioneer, the company announced Friday.Under the terms of the settlement, Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis will get a 14 ...
  1 week ago

• Skype Lawsuit Gets Resolved, Index Ventures Booted Out Of Sale

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 486
  As you may remember, two months ago eBay was planning to spin Skype into an independent company. The buyers who would take control of Skype from eBay included Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Index Ventures, and Silver Lake. However the founders of Skype interrupted the sale ...
  1 week ago

• Skype Litigation Settled; Sale by eBay to Investors to Proceed

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 586
  San Jose,Calif. - Skype parent companyeBay (NASD: EBAY) announced on Friday that litigation between an investor group looking toacquire Skype and the creators of the Internet telephone service has beensettled, and that its sale of a majority stake in Skype will now proceed. As aresult of the settlement, the ...
  1 week ago

• All Is Forgiven: "Its a Clean Slate," Says Andreessen About Lawsuit-Mad Skype Co-Founders

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Silicon Valley legend and now VC Marc Andreessen was making the interview rounds after the settlement between the litigation-addled co-founders of Skype and all the various people they were suing was announced this morning . He has been tight-lipped until now, due to the morass of lawsuits. But, as Andreessen told ...
  1 week ago

• Skype lives on, reaches settlement with Joltid

  
  Technology you can trust here... — Authority: 154
  Filed under: News , VoIP A few months ago there was talk that a lawsuit could bring down the popular VoIP client Skype. That’s because Skype was involved in a dispute with Joltid, a company that Skype was licensing technology from. Today Skype announced that the company has reached a settlement with ...
  1 week ago

• Skype lives on, reaches settlement with Joltid

  
  Download Squad — Authority: 756
  Filed under: News , VoIP A few months ago there was talk that a lawsuit could bring down the popular VoIP client Skype. Thats because Skype was involved in a dispute with Joltid, a company that Skype was licensing technology from. Today Skype announced that the company has reached a settlement with Joltid . ...
  1 week ago

• Skype Lawsuit Settled, Skype/Ning Integration Has Huge Potential

  
  Communications and Technology Blog - Tehrani.com — Authority: 476
  Skype is certainly a major symbol for the IP communications market and although it plays in a niche in the market - consumer VoIP/Video, it is now a household name and having it entangled in legal limbo does it or the industry no good. You may remember that the company was in the process of possibly going IPO and then ...
  1 week ago

• eBay settles Skype lawsuits and lose another $137m

  
  TameBay — Authority: 137
  Skype, eBay, Joltid, Joost, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have settled their differences and come to an agreement to secure the future of Skype and the underlying technology. Previously it was claimed that Skype was infringing IP rights on technology at the heart of it’s software which it didn’t own but was ...
  1 week ago

• Silly Skype Soap Opera Finally Canceled

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 688
  The fight for Skype has ended. After weeks of nasty legal sparring , the Internet telephony service’s founders agreed to join the investor group purchasing it from EBay (EBAY) and dropped the lawsuit that had threatened to bollocks the deal. “Skype will be well positioned to move forward under new owners with ...
  1 week ago

• eBay’s Skype sale gets go-ahead with settlement

  
  Recording — Authority: 469
  New deal brings in Skype founders Niklas Zennstr
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• Skype soap opera ends as founders set to regain stake ahead of $2B sale

  
  BloggingBuyouts — Authority: 406
  Filed under: Deals , Silver Lake Partners , Private equity This post was written by DailyFinance contributor Sam Gustin. Memo to would-be Silicon Valley moguls: do not double-cross a pair of highly litigious billionaires. After weeks of back-and-forth legal jousting , the tech heavyweights fighting ...
  1 week ago

• Skype soap opera ends as founders set to regain stake ahead of $2B sale

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 796
  Filed under: Company News , People Memo to would-be Silicon Valley moguls: do not double-cross a pair of highly litigious billionaires. After weeks of back and forth legal jousting , the tech heavyweights fighting over Skype are set to announce a deal in which the founders of the popular Web-calling service ...
  1 week ago

• Skype Founders Fight Their Way Into the New Skype

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 799
  The great Skype legal mess is about to come to an end, thanks to a settlement between  eBay — and private investors led by Silver Lake Partners — and Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. As part of the deal, the two Skype founders will get 10 percent of the company in exchange for allowing it to ...
  1 week ago

• I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype Founders Set to Get 10 Percent, Option to Buy Three Percent More and Two Board Seats

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  According to several sources close to the situation, barring any unforeseen delay, a deal to settle the Skype imbroglio is likely to be announced around the time the markets open tomorrow. While the massive agreement is not yet officially signed–which will settle three aggressive lawsuits lobbed by Skype’s ...
  1 week ago

• Report: Skype Creators, eBay, Investors Near Settlement

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 586
  San Francisco - Litigation between the inventors and formerowners of Internet phone service Skype, current owner eBay (NASD: EBAY) , and an investorgroup looking to acquire Skype from eBay, could be nearing a settlement, The NewYork Times reported, citing several people who have been briefed on thesituation. Niklas ...
  1 week ago

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