{"id":3663,"date":"2005-09-08T07:32:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T07:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ebay-buys-skype.html"},"modified":"2005-09-08T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T07:32:06","slug":"ebay-buys-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/ebay-buys-skype.html","title":{"rendered":"EBay Buys Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \">Reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D8CG0NP00.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&#038;chan=db\">swirled<\/a> this morning that EBay is looking to pay between 2 billion and 5 billion dollars for Skype. This is an amazingly high valuation and yesterday I saw reports that the Internet telephony leader has approximately 70 million dollars in sales. This would make the multiple of sales 42.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal goes through it would be another shot of adrenalin to a VoIP market that is sprinting not running along.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports swirled this morning that EBay is looking to pay between 2 billion and 5 billion dollars for Skype. This is an amazingly high valuation and yesterday I saw reports that the Internet telephony leader has approximately 70 million dollars in sales. This would make the multiple of sales 42. If the deal goes through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}