With the spin-out from eBay complete, its legal troubles with founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis settled, Skype is looking to the future where it wants to become a ubiquitous real-time communications platform. Full Article at GigaOM

eBay has completed its sale of a majority interest in Skype for almost $2bn to an investor group that includes the founders of the internet phone service. Full Article at ComputerWeekly.com

9:35am UK, Friday November 20, 2009 Hazel Tyldesley, Sky News Online Skype's future has been secured after owners eBay finally sold a large proportion of the company by settling a legal row over rights to the web phone call technology. Full Article at Sky News

Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis were told their case against Skype-owner eBay had to be conducted in the English courts on the day that they later agreed a compromise with eBay. Full Article at The Register

EBay just sold a large portion of Skype after a long legal dispute with Skype's founders. What interested me was the Skype's code evolved from the founders' earlier venture, the file-sharing system, Kazaa. In effect, the experience with the "illegal" Full Article at EconoSpeak

tool goes here SAN JOSE, Calif. -- EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service. Full Article at Fresno Bee

EBay completes sale of Skype for $2 billion SAN JOSE, Calif. — EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service. Full Article at Simple Thoughts

After being quoted as saying Skype had “limited synergies” with it. eBay has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype, at a valuation of $2.75 billion. Full Article at The Next Web

I wasn’t kidding around when I wrote that Rdio, the latest online music venture backed by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis – the original founders of Kazaa, Skype and Joost – was assembling a killer team by hiring away top talent from some of the most... Full Article at TechCrunch

Intel Corp. is paying Silicon Valley rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Full Article at Fresno Bee

ReadWriteWeb has secured the first screenshots of Rdio, the stealthy music startup. Rdio, founded by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis of Skype and Joost fame, will feature a subscription music model similar to Spotify. Full Article at The Next Web

The legal war over Skype has ended. Full Article at ComputerWorld

I’d love to have witnessed the scene at eBay’s house back in 2005 when the FedEx guy delivered their exciting new purchase… “Wait, what the hell… this isn’t what we ordered. Full Article at TechCrunch

Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are to regain partial control of the VoIP company, as eBay pushes ahead with the sale. Full Article at PC Pro

You’ve got to hand it to Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. They braved not one but at least two high-risk court actions to wrestle back the phone app they created seven years ago - and it’s they who emerge as winners from riday’s settlement. Full Article at paidContent.org

If you had one successful startup under your belt that has been fought for hard by a giant then you have every reason to jump and try new things. Full Article at Startup Meme

San Fransisco, November 7 — EBay Inc. on Friday announced a formal settlement that is expected to end its legal battle with Skype founders and proceed with the sale of the online calling service. Full Article at 24x7updates

The online marketplace operator said Friday the settlement gives Skype ownership of critical software that had been licensed from Joltid Ltd. , which is a company founded by Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Full Article at Santa Rosa Press Democrat

The founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, will drop their lawsuits against the company and a consortium of buyers whose bid to purchase 65 percent of Skype was announced last month, according to an announcement released by eBay before... Full Article at Gainesville Sun