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EBay’s Fight With Skype Founders May Threaten IPO
- pg 17y ago"The founders retained rights to the peer-to-peer sharing technology behind Skype when they sold the company to EBay four years ago." That is a remarkable oversight by eBay. I can't think of another case in which an acquirer made this type of mistake.
- prakash 17y agoThe underlying technology to Kazza, Skype & joost are similar with an exclusive license granted to these companies -- a smart move actually from the founders perspective.