eBay to spin off Skype in 2010 (Macworld.com via Yahoo! News)

I’ll admit to being a little puzzled when Internet auction giant eBay acquired voice-over-IP company Skype back in 2005. Sure, Skype was a neat little operation, and at a cost of $2.6 billion, it seemed clear that it was worth something, but it never quite made sense—not like eBay’s acquisition of PayPal, for example, which meshes neatly with eBay’s bread-and-butter.

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