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EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service.

Seems as if online auction house eBay will be able to sell VoIP service Skype after all: eBay and an investment group including Silver Lake have reached a settlement with Joltid regarding the core peer-to-peer technology underlying Skype. The settlement ends all litigation with Joltid over Skype technology: suits in the U.S. and UK had threated to delay or derail eBay's efforts to divest itself of Skype. Furthermore, as part of the… Read More

The legal tussle between Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis and online auction house eBay looks like it's going to turn into a shooting war: Skype's founders, via their company Joltid, have filed an infringement suit in the Northern California U.S. District Court accusing eBay and a group of its investors of infringing on Joltid's intellectual property on a massive scale through continued operation of Skype… Read More