Niklas Zennstrom, CEO and co-founder of Skype, Kazaa, Joltid and Altnet is pictured during a press conference on "How to finance growth of SMEs" in EU Headquarters in Brussels 30 June 2006. The two founders of Skype are seeking to buy back the hugely popular Internet telephone service that they sold to online auction giant eBay in 2005, according to US media reports. Zennstrom, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark, founded Skype in 2003 and sold it to eBay two years later for 2.6 billion dollars. They are now seeking to raise one billion dollars from private equity firms to re-claim their brainchild, the New York Times reported on April 10, 2009, citing several people familiar to the matter. Getty Images logo Getty Images 7 months ago

Niklas Zennstrom, CEO and co-founder of Skype, Kazaa, Joltid and Altnet is pictured during a press conference on "How to finance growth of SMEs" in EU Headquarters in Brussels 30 June 2006. The two founders of Skype are seeking to buy back the hugely popular Internet telephone service that they sold to online auction giant eBay in 2005, according to US media reports. Zennstrom, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark, founded Skype in 2003 and sold it to eBay two years later for 2.6 billion dollars. They are now seeking to raise one billion dollars from private equity firms to re-claim their brainchild, the New York Times reported on April 10, 2009, citing several people familiar to the matter.

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