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New Version of Skype Adds Screen Sharing
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 27, 2009 8:44 AM / 16 Comments

Skype, the popular VOIP client formerly owned by eBay, just released a new beta version of its Windows client. The new version finally brings screen sharing to the Windows client,

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Skype Says "No" to Jailbroken iPhones
Written by Sarah Perez / April 17, 2009 5:58 AM / 11 Comments

The latest update to the Skype iPhone application delivered some minor improvements and fixes, but the biggest update involves a new warning message directed at the owners of jailbroken iPhones.

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eBay Lays Groundwork for Skype IPO in 2010
Written by Phil Glockner / April 14, 2009 2:27 PM / 6 Comments

Online auction giant eBay, rumored to be shopping around for a buyer for its 2005 acquisition of voice-over-IP phone service Skype, announced in a press release today that it has

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Cross Your Fingers: Zennstrom and Friis Might Buy Back Skype From eBay
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 10, 2009 4:53 PM / 11 Comments

Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, are trying to pile up enough cash from investors and their own bank accounts to buy the company back from eBay,

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Weekly Wrapup: Web 2.0 Expo, Skype for iPhone, Local Web, And More...
Written by Richard MacManus / April 3, 2009 12:00 PM / 3 Comments

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter where the top stories of the week are summarized, we present highlights from our coverage of the Web 2.0 Expo (held

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Skype for iPhone: It's Real and It's Spectacular
Written by Phil Glockner / March 30, 2009 10:30 PM / 36 Comments

I had about 3 story options on my plate to write about tonight. But I found myself constantly returning to the iTunes store and searching for Skype, over and over

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Skype May Be The Biggest Winner From The Web 2.0 Era
Written by Bernard Lunn / March 29, 2009 8:30 PM / 57 Comments

Skype does not get the respect it deserves, because eBay not only publicly admitted to overpaying for it but is making a mess of its core business. Another reason may

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Is There a Reverse Network Effect with Scale?
Written by Bernard Lunn / March 16, 2009 1:00 PM / 23 Comments

The Internet economy has been built on the network effect (i.e. the effect that one user of a good or service has on the value of that product for other

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eBay: Good in Parts
Written by Bernard Lunn / February 26, 2009 11:20 AM / 10 Comments

At the Accel Symposium, we heard John Donahoe, eBay CEO, admit that there was little synergy between core eBay, PayPal, and Skype. He lauded PayPal, showed some false modesty around

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Mobile News: Yahoo Mobile, Skype on Cell Phones, Second Android Phone, and More
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 17, 2009 1:48 PM / 3 Comments

This week, the mobile computing world revolves around the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Among some of the highlights today were the announcement of the second Android phone, as well

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