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Sep 12, 2005  EBay Buys Skype for $2.6 Billion

10 May 2011  Microsoft agrees to by Skype for $8.5 billion

 

The sellers include eBay Inc. and private equity firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz.

 

EBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion in 2005, but its attempt to unite the phone service with its online shopping bazaar never worked out. It wound up selling a 70 percent stake in Skype to a group of investors led by private equity firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz for $2 billion 18 months ago.Besides eBay, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz, Skype's other major shareholders are Joltid and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

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