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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:03:25 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Robert Lee <robertslee () verizon net> Date: September 20, 2005 9:43:33 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: [IP] Gripes From Skype Users After eBay Buy-Out Would someone please tell me why Skype is worth $4 billion? It has revenues of $7 million. If eBay wants IM and telecom communication between bidders and sellers then why don't they get three Drexel work study students to do it for them. They certainly do not need to terminate calls on the PSTN. Would someone tell me why the business community should be so positive about the Oracle/Siebel merger? Two companies that cannot grow merge together to have one larger company that cannot grow. When you hear that Wallstreet is happy that means that the bankers are happy with their merger fees. A spate of mergers, as I have said before, is a sign of disease. In a healthy sector entities grow from their investment in sales and marketing, R&D, etc. They grow internally. It is called core growth. Today, companies of all stripes, are being forced to sell much higher unit sales for much less money, simply spinning dollars. IMO, this marks the beginning of a long period in which the consumer will benefit and, due to the labor force being more markedly removed from the production chain than ever before, there will not be so much the recession of the labor force but the recession of the producers. The high price of gasoline and heating oil is already adding to this effect in that it is supplanting much discretionary purchasing, which will be met by further lowering of prices. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:12 AM To: Ip Ip Subject: [IP] Gripes From Skype Users After eBay Buy-Out Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: September 19, 2005 11:34:50 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Gripes From Skype Users After eBay Buy-Out Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com [Note: This item comes from reader Steve Schear. DLH]
From: Steve Schear <s.schear () comcast net> Date: September 19, 2005 3:29:28 PM PDT To: dewayne-net () warpspeed com Subject: Gripes From Skype Users After eBay Buy-Out Gripes From Skype Users After eBay Buy-Out By Reuters September 13, 2005 LONDON (Reuters) eBay's acquisition of Skype could be worth up to $4.1 billion to investors in the Internet telephony start-up, but it is getting mixed reviews from Skype's fervent supporters. It was the hard-core Skype fans whose word-of-mouth advertising helped it become the world's largest voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) provider without spending a penny on marketing. It has some 54 million registered users and usually has more than 3.5 million people online. But the sale to eBay could signal the end of the evangelical zeal from users that drove Skype's rapid growth. Its software which offers free computer-to-computer calls between Skype users has spread in classic viral fashion, as each new user convinces friends and family to sign up. In a poll on the forums, 69 percent of users said the acquisition is not a good thing, compared with 23 percent in favor of the deal. "In my opinion, the takeover by eBay means to me possibly and probably the end of free Skype services. I anticipate a very bad future for us here but I sincerely hope I am wrong," the Skype user Alan2 wrote on Monday. Users also raised concerns that the purchase of the Luxembourg-based Skype by a U.S. company could mean new legal constraints on the service. More at: <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1858664,00.asp>
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