By Shane McGlaun - April 13, 2009
Back in 2005, eBay purchased Skype for about $1.7 billion with then CEO Meg Whitman saying that eBay believed Skype would find an audience with eBay buyers and sellers. This failed to happen and current eBay CEO John Donahoe has said that Skype has no synergies with eBay reports eWeek. Donahoe said that eBay would do what was right for Skype and eBay -- many analysts took that statement as an indication that eBay may be interested in selling Skype. While eBay hasn’t officially stated that it is trying to sell Skype, the original founders of the Skype service, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, have reportedly contacted private equity firms in an attempt to make a bid to purchase their company back from eBay.
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