Video Facebook! Facebook and Skype Equals Video Chat!
Published July 10, 2011 | 
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced the introduction of a brand new video chat tool inside Facebook that is powered by 
none other than Skype in a very interesting collaboration, with Zuckerberg signaling the beginning of a launching season for the social network titan, which now boasts that it has 750 million users globally.
Facebook Dials in Skype
Technology Video! Microsoft Calling Skype!
Published May 10, 2011 | 
Early in Skype’s life, eBay acquired it and really didn’t have a very good for how Skype could best fit eBay’s plans for future business. So now we turn the page and it appears the next phase of Skype’s life could be as part of Microsoft. What could the software giant be thinking and do with the service, and could it prove to be a better fit than its former owner eBay?
Skype Takes a Call from Microsoft!
Breaking News! eBay Sells Skype Valued at $2.75 Billion!
Published September 1, 2009 | 
The New York Times had reported that eBay is going to announce a deal to sell the Internet telephone service Skype to a private investment group recently formed that might include the original founders of Skype that have been in an ongoing feud with eBay, and have recently threatened to not allow use of critical technologies that power Skype, while letting their interest be known in buying the company back. The group includes the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, co-founded by Netscape’s founder Marc Andreessen and current member of the eBay Board of Directors for.
The eBay sale of Skype has now been been confirmed and valued at $2.75 billion.
eBay negotiated with Google as recent as July about a purchse of Skype, but Google fearing possible continued litigation backed away from the acquisition.