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Cisco plans to buy Skype

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rhitwick
rhitwick Original post #1
Aug 31, 2010 at 4:17 PM
Cisco has made a bid to buy Skype for around $5 billion, before the privately-held internet phone company goes public, the influential Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch reported Monday

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jayantr7
Aug 31, 2010 at 4:25 PM
Buying Skype like thing is a huge challenge of money.Will Ebay sell it??I guess YES at that some of money[$5b]..

Cisco must have some better plans for it I guess.At least,Yahoo! didn't bought it yet.If Yahoo! will buy it,then Skype will be ruined.....
rhitwick
Aug 31, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Hasn't eBay already sold it?
The report mentions this,

Ebay bought Skype in 2005 for $2.6 billion and then sold it back to private investors headed by Skype's founders for $1.9 billion in 2009.
jayantr7
Aug 31, 2010 at 4:38 PM
Oh sorry friend.I didn't knew that.Do you think Cisco should bid that some of money??/?
V
Sep 1, 2010 at 4:59 PM
5b $ for Skype...Huge money man

Never took Sykpe so serious will using it ;)