The deal values Skype at $2.75 billion. Index is out, freeing up 2.4% of the equity . Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are in. They are contributing Joltid software for 10% of the company . They are paying $83 million for 4% of the...
Topics: CPPIB, EBAY, financials, news, skype, spinout

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UPDATE: MORE TO COME. The September 2009 deal valued Skype at $2.9 million. Post-deal, eBay would own 35%, Silverlake 50.6%, Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board 10.26%, Index Ventures Growth Fund 2.39%, Andreessen Horowitz 1.71%. The new deal,..
Topics: analysis, business, CPP, financials, skype, spinout

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He's in a wave . Adds a gadget. Passes a Skype name to a gadget. Browser-to-Skype call starts. They talk. As each person talks for a bit, their bit is encoded and linked-to. So you have a play-by-play record of a call. Inside a Google wave. ...
Topics: asterisk, developers, ecomm, events, SIP, skype, software, technology

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Why all Telecom Marketing and Product management is wrong View more presentations from Raindeer . It's almost therapy for your phone company: be true to yourself. Find joy in simplifying your customer relationships so you can be marvelous at...
Topics: competition, ecomm, europe, events, strategy

{"title":"Why all telecom companies should follow Free.Fr's example","post_url":"http:\/\/skypejournal.com\/2009\/10\/why-all-telecom-companies-should-follow.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/SkypeJournal","author":"PhilWolff","date":"2009-10-28 07:26:38","summary":"Why all Telecom Marketing and Product management is wrong View more presentations from Raindeer . It's almost therapy for your phone company: be true to yourself. Find joy in simplifying your customer relationships so you can be marvelous at..."}

Skype developer Don Kennedy will write a Skype program for you. Free. In two weeks. Just ask for what you want in the comments below. "Dear Don, I wish Skype could..." Don built a Skype bot that translates live Skype chats in 43 languages ....
Topics: developers, fun, life, skype, technology, wishlist

{"title":"Wish For A Custom Skype App Contest","post_url":"http:\/\/skypejournal.com\/2009\/10\/wish-for-custom-skype-app-contest.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/SkypeJournal","author":"PhilWolff","date":"2009-10-25 13:26:09","summary":"Skype developer Don Kennedy will write a Skype program for you. Free. In two weeks. Just ask for what you want in the comments below. \"Dear Don, I wish Skype could...\" Don built a Skype bot that translates live Skype chats in 43 languages ...."}