by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

Why eBay bought Skype

Opinion

Sep 19, 20051 min

If you’re still wondering why eBay bought Skype, “Small Business Technology” columnist James Gaskin breaks the deal down. What does the online auctioneer get for its $2.6 billion? Free customers service for the SMBs that use eBay as their retail storefront.

That makes sense, but $2.6 billion? We’re still puzzling over that price tag.

Data Center

by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.

He can be reached at michael_cooney@foundryco.com.

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