There’s been a storm over Skype’s private equity investors and their treatment of stock options, but is that storm a remnant of Silicon Valley’s cash-rich, founder-happy culture? Evidence from elsewhere would suggest that entrepreneurs just don’t know how good they’ve been getting it. Read More »
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Skype is in the process of being sold to Microsoft is fast becoming a poster child of investor greed and corporate mistreatment of it employees. An ex-employee is blaming investor Silver Lake Partners. Our sources say that investors were interfering with the company too much. Read More »
Silverlake Partners, a Silicon Valley-based private equity and buyout firm, says it’s bought Intel’s data center in Santa Clara, Calif., and made it part of Vantage Data Centers, a new company headed by Jim Trout, a veteran of both the telecom and data center business. Read More »
Earlier this week, a group of investors led by Silverlake Partners, a Silicon Valley-based private equity group, acquired 65 percent ownership in Internet telephony company Skype for about $1.9 billion in cash and $125 million in debt. The current owner, eBay, retained 35 percent… Read More »
Word just came in — the deal is official. eBay is selling Skype in a deal that values the Internet calling service at $2.75 billion. eBay will get $1.9 billion in cash, a $125 million note, and will give up 65 percent of the… Read More »
