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I was quite surprised today to read the headline of the deal between ebay and a private equity about the sale of the majority of skype. But I was even more surprised about the price they achieved, which values skype at $2.75billion. ebay paid including payouts to founders about $3.1bn, but had written down later [...]

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In today’s fiercewireless newsletter Lynette Luna is asking if “Skype’s persistence finally paying off?”
I’m actually using Skype on my mobile since two weeks!
In an effort to install several mobile applications (e.g. Shozu) on my Nokia E71 to become truly always connected (like the Japanese I just visited), I’ve also installed fring a little application that [...]

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