Wow, 90% seems like a lot... although I can't seem to find a source for that. According to an answer on Amazon's askville [1], the total ended up being ~1.7% ar

Wow, 90% seems like a lot... although I can't seem to find a source for that. According to an answer on Amazon's askville [1], the total ended up being ~1.7% around Oct 2006. At one time, the life cycles of the companies might have aligned (as Skype was taking off, and Paypal was plateauing) to show ridiculous numbers like that. Still, it seems hardly justifiable to pay billions to buy a company just because they use your service for checking out. http://askville.amazon.com/users-Paypal-Skype/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=124573 http://askville.amazon.com/users-Paypal-Skype/AnswerViewer.d...