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| Thread ID: 61661 | 2005-09-12 12:27:00 | EBay buys Skype for $2.6bn | krival96 (7003) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 387928 | 2005-09-12 12:27:00 | EBay, the online auction site, has bought Skype, the privately owned internet telephony company, for $2.6 billion in up-front cash. Skype may change... www.skype.com |
krival96 (7003) | ||
| 387929 | 2005-09-12 13:14:00 | The company was only started in 2002, and the owners are onto $2.6b already! Hope it spreads like wildfire even more, and kill off w@nkers like Telstra and Telecom. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 387930 | 2005-09-12 13:38:00 | Ebay will ream it. Expect fees galore and adverts injected at the start, finish and at timed intervals though the communication. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 387931 | 2005-09-12 14:06:00 | Man, how does that small piece of software become worth $2.6 billion in such a short amount of time? | vapo (5203) | ||
| 387932 | 2005-09-12 15:22:00 | Man, how does that small piece of software become worth $2.6 billion in such a short amount of time? If Telecoms worldwide weren't price-gouging so much, stuff like Skype would be small fry or non-existent. When I signed up with my ISP, the customer services person told me to use Skype and calling cards, not their calling plans because they were a rip-off. He knew it, they knew it. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 387933 | 2005-09-12 19:14:00 | Oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! I thought it was too good to last Anybody use anything else as good, just in case. |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 387934 | 2005-09-12 21:42:00 | talk.google.com Nothing could be better |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 387935 | 2005-09-13 02:15:00 | talk.google.com Nothing could be better Still works only with the Google client (the talking bit, that is). Not available on Linux or *BSD - strange that Google runs almost entirely on (Slackware) Linux, and promotes *BSD and other open source heavily... |
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