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\t\t\t EBay Admits to Bad Call on Skype<\/a><\/h3>\n \t \tPosted by \t \tZonk<\/a> \ton Tuesday October 02, @11:24AM<\/strong>
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\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\tMaineCoasts writes “The Times online reports that two years after buying Skype 2.6 billion, Ebay yesterday warned shareholders that they may have made a mistake<\/a>. In essence, they vastly overpaid for the company. ZDNet offers analysis of the announcement<\/a>: ‘Clearly, the current business model is not enough to satisfy eBay in light of how much the company spent on Skype. And the reason is simple. Even though Skype has done a very good job of getting users to download its software client, most people who use the service do so to make free Skype-to-Skype phone calls. The only way that Skype makes money from its subscribers is when people use its Skype-In or Skype-Out services. Skype-In allows users to pay to rent a phone number, which people on regular phones can call. Skype-Out allows users to call traditional phones or cell phones for a fee.'”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Maybe that was not a good investment<\/p>\n
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Wow what is this all about?(from slashdot.org) EBay Admits to Bad Call on Skype Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 02, @11:24AM from the fun-for-users dept. MaineCoasts writes “The Times online reports that two years after buying Skype 2.6 billion, Ebay yesterday warned shareholders that they may have made a mistake. In essence, they vastly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\t\t \t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\tMaineCoasts writes “The Times online reports that two years after buying Skype 2.6 billion, Ebay yesterday warned shareholders that they may have made a mistake<\/a>. In essence, they vastly overpaid for the company. ZDNet offers analysis of the announcement<\/a>: ‘Clearly, the current business model is not enough to satisfy eBay in light of how much the company spent on Skype. And the reason is simple. Even though Skype has done a very good job of getting users to download its software client, most people who use the service do so to make free Skype-to-Skype phone calls. The only way that Skype makes money from its subscribers is when people use its Skype-In or Skype-Out services. Skype-In allows users to pay to rent a phone number, which people on regular phones can call. Skype-Out allows users to call traditional phones or cell phones for a fee.'”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n \n Maybe that was not a good investment<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow what is this all about?(from slashdot.org) EBay Admits to Bad Call on Skype Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 02, @11:24AM from the fun-for-users dept. MaineCoasts writes “The Times online reports that two years after buying Skype 2.6 billion, Ebay yesterday warned shareholders that they may have made a mistake. In essence, they vastly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n\n