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The great Skype legal mess is about to come to an end, thanks to a settlement between  eBay — and private investors led by Silver Lake Partners — and Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. As part of the deal, the two Skype founders will […] Read more »

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Digg and Slashdot were abuzz earlier this morning with the news that Skype was going to go open source. The buzz was based on a post on a French blog by Olivier Faurax. The news is true and false at the same time. “It is our […] Read more »

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Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom’s Joost and Joltid today announced that they have filed a lawsuit against Michaelangelo Volpi, Joost’s former president, CEO and chairman, and his current private equity firm (and Joost investor), Index Ventures. The suit claims that Volpi and Index breached fiduciary duty, […] Read more »

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Waiting for eBay to spin off Skype into the stock market? Don’t hold your breath. A legal battle with a company controlled by Skype’s founders could delay the move until at least the second half of next year — and possibly put the entire offering into […] Read more »

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It was in a conversation with Skype CEO Josh Silverman last fall that I raised the question: When will eBay spin off the mammoth Internet calling service via a public offering? Of course, he didn’t answer the question. The answer to that question came today, when […] Read more »

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