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Skype: Inside the boffo $8.5 billion dealTuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 5:53AMIn 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.

Biz Break: Apple celebrates app developers at 15 billion milestone; plus: eBay keeps up its shopping spree for PayPalThursday, July 7, 2011 @ 4:57PMToday: An Apple (AAPL) milestone and a new iPad on the way? Plus: eBay (EBAY) keeps adding to its PayPal portfolio and the economy seems to be having a good summer.

Microsoft Advertising Exchange Expands GloballyTuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 4:39AMCANNES, France, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ Exchange Now Open for Business in the UK and Netherlands Windows Phone 7 In-App Inventory Available Globally Microsoft today announced that the Microsoft Advertising Exchange, a real-time bidded …

Microsoft buys Skype for $US8.5bTuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 5:26PMMicrosoft has announced plans to buy internet phone service company Skype for US$8.5 billion in a move aimed at carving out a bigger presence in an online arena dominated by Google and Facebook.The acquisition of Skype, which...

Online and phone bidding increasing at auctionsFriday, May 6, 2011 @ 5:18AMAt an outdoor Chester County auction in early April, the scene looked unchanged from 20 or even 200 years ago: A flock of several hundred bidders announced their intentions by waving paddles - simply constructed cardboard squares inked with bidding numbers.