[Asterisk-Users] Skype purchased by Ebay 2.6 Billion

[Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT)]

> Skype will utilise PayPal for all payment systems.

What prevents Skype users using PayPal even without Ebay?

> Ebay doesn't have lots of users in territories that Skype does (Nordic
and South America for one).

Ebay is not interested in those territories anyway as they don't operate
Paypal in South America and even if someone wants to buy stuff there,
there is no way they can pay nor ship goods from US to Argentina.

>There'll be increased integration with Ebay and Skype for certain Ebay
sites.

There are opensource clients available to integarate, if that was the
reason. Azureus - BitTorrent Client, the most sought after Filesharing
software on Sourceforge that works on Linux could be a good candidate to
add Voice to it and make this a part of greater Ebay Solution.

But I agree that it is good for the Skype founders.

Seshu Kanuri


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve
Kennedy
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 4:04 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Skype purchased by Ebay 2.6 Billion

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 07:30:56PM +0100, Iqbal wrote:

> 70 million users, now how many of these are ALREADY ebay customers. 
> Google never made a succes out of any other thing other than search 
> and that will remain the case, companies never do, they are usually 
> good at what they started at, especially if they grow very big, then 
> they decided they may as well do everything, which is where their own 
> success starts to eat away at them.

Ebay doesn't have lots of users in territories that Skype does (Nordic
and South America for one).

Skype will utilise PayPal for all payment systems.

There'll be increased integration with Ebay and Skype for certain Ebay
sites.

Whether it's worth the money they paid, who knows? I'm sure the Skype
founders are happy, as are the investors who put in $35m.


Steve
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