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Category Archives: VOIP Services, Competition
To Skype or Not to Skype?
You’d think judging by this BusinessWeek article that Skype is a strategic albatross hanging around eBay’s neck.
Yes, Ebay overpaid for Skype. And it hasn’t panned out strategically if the goal was giving eBay sellers a new communications tool.
But Skype has seen tremendous growth with 335 million registered users and projected revenue this year of $500-million. [...]
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Thoughts on VoIP
I wrote an article for a new Web site called VoIP Services looking at some of the challenges facing VoIP service providers. As some of you may recall, this blog’s original focus was VoIP (back when Vonage was all the rage!) so it’s like old times.
Technorati Tags: Vonage
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Skype: The Rodney Dangerfield of Telecom
The worst thing that ever happened to Skype was eBay’s decision to acquire it for $3.1-billion.
In an instant, Skype went from being cool and disruptive to a wildly over-priced acquisition that made little strategic sense for eBay. While eBay has struggled to figured out how Skype fits into the scheme of things (and taken a [...]
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Skype Should Do An IPO Soon
Okay, eBay blew it with the purchase of Skype by wildly over-paying. So what now?
After cleaning up its books, eBay should set Skype free by doing an IPO. It would probably be embarrassing to eBay but how much worse can it get?
If you step back, Skype appears to be a pretty solid business with about [...]
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eBay-Skype: I Hate to Say I Told You So….
I was one of those people who never got eBay’s decision to buy Skype. It didn’t make sense strategically despite eBay’s loud assertions it was a great fit. In fact, I opined – along with lots of other people such as Andy Abramson – that eBay got suckered.
Over the past two years, the eBay-Skype marriage [...]
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