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    Skype sells to eBay for $4.1 Billion

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    Monday, September 12th, 2005
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    eBay announced the acquisition of Skype (previous profiles) for $4.1 billion today.

    $2.6 billion is being paid up front – half cash and half eBay shares. Another $1.5 billion will be paid in 2008 or later based on performance goals.

    Skype has 50 million registered users and about $7 million in revenue last year. This year’s revenue is projected to be $60 million.

    Jeff Clavier has an excellent early analysis of the deal.

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    • http://djksar.wordpress.com Randy Ksar

      Economic downturn or poor management? I guess both could be factors. We’ll see how this affects the rest of the industry.

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    • Meme

      What a load of hogwash. This was Google’s best Q ever. The fall is a result of analysts being wrong (again). Had the analysts erred in the other direction, the stock would have skyrocketed…

      Past experience shows that Google earns more in times of global crisis, e.g. after Sep 11 airliners spent more on Google ads. Since Google ads deliver better focused results expect more business in financial difficulty to spent more ad money with Google.

      At the moment, GOOG is a strong buy opportunity.

    • http://www.techcrunchit.com/ Nik Cubrilovic

      Meme: they are still a media company

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    • http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/ Michael VanDeMar

      Actually, this was their second largest 1 day fall, afaik. Today is 2 days shy of the one year anniversary of them losing $46 in after hours trading.

    • http://www.techcrunchit.com/ Nik Cubrilovic

      Good point Michael – im going back to the charts for my wrap up post later today

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