SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) announced today that it has successfully completed the previously announced sale of its Skype communications unit in a deal valuing the business at $2.75 billion. The buyer, who will control an approximately 70 percent stake, is an investor group led by Silver Lake and includes Joltid Limited and certain affiliated parties, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz.

eBay received...

SAN JOSE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype today announced the Holiday Military Connection program, which will allow hundreds of American servicemen and women stationed overseas to have the unprecedented opportunity to join their families stateside for virtual visits this holiday season, thanks to a partnership between Skype and the USO.

The Holiday Military Connection program will connect troops in the Guam, Yokosuka, and Camp Hansen (Okinawa) USO centers with their families...

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype today announced that it has appointed Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg as Chief Technology Strategist, effective immediately. Reporting to Daniel Berg, Skype?s Chief Technology Officer, Rosenberg will be responsible for shaping and driving the company?s technology strategies and overall architecture to continue delivering a best-in-class Skype experience to users around the world.

?We are tremendously excited to have Jonathan Rosenberg join us. His...

LUXEMBOURG & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype today announced a new business funded click-to-call product and a strategic partnership with European Directories that will turn online search for businesses into calls for businesses.

Skype?s business funded click-to-call delivers great value and convenience by making it easier and free for consumers who are using Skype to call local businesses they search for anywhere on the internet. A call that is funded by a business...

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype today announced that the beta version of Skype for SIP has been certified as interoperable with the Cisco® Unified Communications 500 Series for Small Business. This will enable small and medium-sized businesses who manage their networking and communications needs with this affordable UC solution to communicate more efficiently by directing their outbound calls to mobiles and landlines via Skype, while also allowing them to receive...

WASHINGTON D.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Christopher Libertelli, Skype?s Senior Director of Government & Regulatory Affairs, issued the following statement regarding today?s remarks at the Brookings Institution by FCC Chairman Genachowski:

?We welcome FCC Chairman Genachowski?s balanced approach to protecting investment in networks and the applications that drive people to buy broadband access. If done correctly, this move will open up more innovation and allow consumers to...

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype and SIPfoundry, (http://www.sipfoundry.org), a not-for-profit open source community, today announced that sipXecs, its open source enterprise IP PBX unified communications (UC) solution, has now been certified as interoperable with Skype for SIP. This will enable many organizations running a sipXecs IP PBX solution to save money by directing their outbound calls to mobiles and landlines via Skype, while also enabling them to...

LUXEMBOURG & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype and ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated Unified Communications (UC), today announced interoperability between ShoreTel?s UC system and the beta version of Skype for SIP. ShoreTel is the world?s first UC vendor to achieve interoperability with Skype for SIP. The nearly 11,000 ShoreTel enterprise customers can now register to try...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype today announced its Skype for iPhone application for iPhone and iPod touch is available on the App Store in Canada. Now iPhone and iPod touch users in Canada can take their Skype conversations with them while mobile.

?We are delighted to bring the Skype for iPhone application to Canadian iPhone and iPod touch users as it opens up new ways for them to stay connected with family, friends and colleagues for free or minimal cost,?...

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Skype announced that it is providing users with a greater amount of sharing and collaboration than ever before. Skype?s latest free feature, screen sharing, is now widely available for both Mac and Windows users. It allows callers on Skype to easily share what is on their screen, simply by calling another Skype contact and showing all or part of their screen to the other person, at no cost. For business users, screen sharing is a...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype, a division of eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY), is asking a U.K. court to resolve a dispute with Joltid Limited, which owns peer-to-peer communication technology licensed by Skype for use in its software. In a recently filed claim with the English High Court of Justice in London, Skype is asking the Court to find that Joltid?s efforts to terminate the agreement are invalid and that Skype is not in breach of the licensing agreement.

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LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype today announced that the lite version of Skype?, a 'thin' Skype client for mobile phones, will soon be available as a free download for BlackBerry® smartphones. A beta version will be available in May for the BlackBerry® Bold? and BlackBerry® Curve? smartphones, with support for other BlackBerry smartphones coming later.

The lite version of Skype delivers core Skype capabilities to BlackBerry smartphones, including:

• Make Skype-to-Skype calls...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype announced that its highly anticipated application, Skype? for iPhone, will be available on the Apple App Store beginning today. The app also adds Skype calling and instant messaging to any second generation iPod touch with a compatible headset and microphone.

?Skype software for the iPhone has been the number one request among our users. We are delighted to deliver on this request and put Skype into the pockets of millions of...

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype today announced the beta version of Skype For SIP for Business users. SIP, short for Session Initiation Protocol, is an open standard and the leading voice over Internet protocol used in businesses telephony networks at millions of locations globally. According to IDC, 438,000 IP PBXes were shipped worldwide in 2008.^*

Skype For SIP allows SIP PBX owners to benefit from Skype?s low cost calls to fixed phones and mobiles around the world, and...

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype published data today from a recent Zogby survey showing that most mobile users still perceive a gap between the purpose and controllability of their computers versus their mobile devices. This gap correlates with the finding that the vast majority of mobile users do not yet download applications to their mobile devices.

However, the same people expressed a strong desire to be able to choose mobile applications for themselves, and not have...