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InternetNews April 14, 2009 Christopher Saunders	eBay Plans Skype IPO Online auction giant eBay is planning to take plans its Skype Internet telephony unit public, with an Initial Public Offer planned for the first half of 2010.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2010 Tim Beyers	You Blew It, eBay Look where Skype is now.
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InternetNews October 12, 2007 Larry Barrett	Skype Co-Founder Admits Expectations Were Too High A week after eBay wrote off $1.4 billion from its purchase, Skype's co-founder and former CEO said early revenue targets were overly ambitious.
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The Motley Fool April 15, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Get In on the Skype IPO eBay finally found a way to unload its popular voice and video chat platform. It will take Skype public as a stand-alone company in the first half of next year.
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The Motley Fool September 16, 2005 Dave Mock	eBay Today, eBell Tomorrow? eBay's purchase of Skype sets the standard for the role of next-generation communications. Traditional telecom companies are a dying breed, and eBay isn't buying into one of them.
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The Motley Fool October 20, 2005 Jeff Hwang	eBay's Q3 So-So The online auctioneer posts solid but modest results in the third quarter. While the merits of the Skype acquisition -- the largest in eBay's history -- can be debated, a good case can be made for eBay's long-term future.
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InternetNews August 12, 2009	Microsoft, Nokia Team to Make Office Mobile Microsoft and mobile phone giant Nokia said Wednesday that they have agreed to form a broad alliance that will begin by porting Office Mobile applications to run on Nokia's Symbian operating system.
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