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Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch)

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch: Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation  —  eBay has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion.  The investor consortium who is the... ...full story at techmeme

from techmeme on Fri, Nov 20 2009

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