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Skype: The inside story of the boffo $8.5 billion dealTuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 6:04AMIn September 2009, Silver Lake Partners and venture firm Andreessen-Horowitz bought Skype from eBay, where it had become the Kurt Cobain of technology companies (wildly popular, deeply troubled). The value of that deal: $2.75 billion. In May 2011 the new owners announced that they were selling the company to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. Voilà! Six billion bucks in less than two years.

FireEye takes down the Internet bad guysSunday, June 19, 2011 @ 11:16PMAlex Lanstein stared at the 65-inch computer monitor in the living room of his Boston apartment. Streaming data lit up the screen, the actions of a cyberlord giving orders to his botnet, a zombie army of hijacked...

Here Are Four Ways The Microsoft-Skype Deal Could FailMonday, May 16, 2011 @ 11:21PMMicrosoft Inc. (NASDAQ:MSFT) is going green in more ways than one.

Microsoft snaps up Skype to keep rivals at bayTuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 7:15PMAcquisition of online calling service for $8.5-billion gives company big step up in mobile communications

Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5bnTuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 6:45PMMicrosoft NEW YORK: Microsoft is buying Internet voice and video leader Skype for $8.5 billion dollars in a move aimed at boosting its presence in an online arena dominated by Google and Facebook.