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• EA BUYING SOCIAL NETWORK GAMING COMPANY PLAYFISH FOR $400 MILLION

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 439
  Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) has closed an acquisition deal with Playfish. Playfish is a company that designs games for social networks such as Facebook. EA is spending $400 million to buy out Playfish. Of the $400 million, $300 million will be given upfront and the additional $100 million will be paid as an ...
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• Accel Partners Feels Like a Billion Dollars Today…No, Really!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Who said the venture capital industry is sucking wind lately? Well, it is–but not today, and especially, not Accel Partners, which sold two of its portfolio start-ups to large public companies for a total of $1.5 billion. That would be the sale of AdMob to search behemoth Google (GOOG) for $750 million in stock ...
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• The Skype Legal Battle Finally Ends .

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  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 ...
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• EBay Settles Suit Over Skype Sale

  
  DealBook — Authority: 782
  EBay has formally settled the litigation around its sale of Skype, settling a dispute with the online calling services founders.
  4 days ago

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

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 439
  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 ...
  4 days ago

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

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Silly Skype Soap Opera Finally Canceled

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 681
  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 ...
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• Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10%

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 899
  eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype , clearing the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners , Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Index Ventures , a ...
  4 days 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: 735
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Skype Battle Nears End

  
  VoIP & Gadgets Blog — Authority: 464
  Gigaom reports that there is a good chance that a resolution of the lawsuit between the Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis and eBays Skype could be announced as soon as this week. According to Gigaom, a group of private equity investors led by Silver Lake Partners are close to settling their legal ...
  6 days ago

• End of Fight Over Skype May Be Near

  
  DealBook — Authority: 782
  The bitter battle over the future of the Internet calling service Skype, which is owned by eBay, appears to be nearing an end.
  6 days ago

• Further Details Emerge As Skype & Its Founders Close to Settlement

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 801
  There is a good likelihood that Skype; its founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis; and a group of private equity investors led by Silver Lake Partners are close to settling their legal disputes, allowing eBay to sell 65 percent of Skype for about $2 billion. I had first reported the news this past weekend . As ...
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• Could SIP Save Skype?

  
  Ian Andrew Bell — Authority: 401
  Skypes Saviours? The answer, in my article over at GigaOM.com , is resoundingly NO. But there’s more to it than that. My argument in this piece was largely an economic one, not as much a dissertation on the independent merits of the protocols in play.  I do think that the issues around SIP remain relevant as ...
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• Skype, Founders Settlement in the Works?

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 801
  The ongoing legal scuffle between Skype , a division of eBay, and its founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom may soon see a resolution, according to someone familiar with the situation. The various parties are in discussions to resolve the various issues. The talks are described to be at sensitive stage and can ...
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• AlertMe teams with Google, British Gas to give consumers more control over energy use

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  AlertMe is the newest energy monitoring device maker to partner with Google PowerMeter , giving homeowners more information and control over how much electricity they are using, and how much they pay for it. By providing hardware that plugs into your home’s traditional electric meter and your broadband connection, ...
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• I was wrong.

  
  OutThink — Authority: 108
  I wrote this recently comparing Yahoo’s failure with Geocities to eBay’s success with Skype. Excerpt: “Anyway, nuts to anyone who says eBay failed by buying Skype [for a tad less than that actually] – at least they are looking to recover some if not most of what they paid, plus it was a cool business to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Skype Creators Seek Injunction Against Former Joost CEO Volpi

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 569
  Wilmington,Del. - The creators ofpeer-to-peer services Kazaa, Skype and Joost have asked a federal court for aninjunction against former Joost CEO Mike Volpi and Index Ventures, where he isnow a partner, to prevent them from using trade secrets in their bid to acquireSkype from eBay. Developers Niklas Zennstrom and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dueling Skype Sides Hire Big Communications Guns

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Perhaps the sides in the ever-escalating war over the Skype deal will work out their differences and settle–which is what should and probably will eventually happen after everyone realizes how stupid all this noisy legal wrangling over the Internet telephony giant is. But that day is decidedly not today, given a ...
  3 weeks ago

• How A Failed Poach Could Cost Mike Volpi The Skype Deal

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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• Exclusive: Skype Founders Keep on Punching–File Injunction Against Volpi and Index

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Joost and Joltid filed a motion for preliminary injunction against former Joost CEO Michelangelo Volpi and Index Ventures, where Volpi now works as a partner, asking that he not use knowledge or confidential information he got at the video start-up in current dealings with Skype. The move is yet another legal attack ...
  3 weeks ago

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