NEW YORK (TheStreet) — When former eBay CEO Meg Whitman bought Skype in 2005 for $2.6 billion ($3.1 billion with all the earn-outs added back), most assumed it was the deal that would sink her career. It seemed like a laughable idea then: that buyers and sellers on eBay’s marketplace were going to click on a Skype icon and talk to each other to finalize the details of their transactions. It was …
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