eBay announced that a group of venture capital funds and investors will buy Skype in a deal that values the company at $2.75 billion (US).  The investor group will buy approximately 65% of Skype with eBay retaining 35% ownership.  Skype was acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion plus payouts totaling an estimated $3.1 billion in a transaction The New York Times calls “one of the worst technology transactions of the decade.”

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