Skype's founders are said to be raising money to buy Skype back from eBay. They sold it for $3.1 billion and eBay appears to want $1.7 billion. Aside from the obvious deal economics, Skype's founders have gone almost nowhere with their follow-on video business.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Skype Founders Want to Buy it Back
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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