Cisco plans to buy Skype

[rhitwick]

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]

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]

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]

Oh sorry friend.I didn't knew that.Do you think Cisco should bid that some of money??/?

 

[vickyadvani]

5b $ for Skype...Huge money man

Never took Sykpe so serious will using it