Four days in, and more tech company fallout from the riots in the UK: RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), which has found itself in the story because rioters are using its BBM messaging network to organize meetups, has had its site hacked. And eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) tells us that so far it…

With at least 25 Pottermore beta accounts now for sale on eBay (NSDQ: EBAY), the site has posted a notice: Cut it out!

EBay is on the acquisition trail as it looks for growth in new markets: today the auction giant announced that it would buy brands4friends, an online shopping club based in Germany, for €150 million ($200 million) in an all-cash deal. This is the second startup that eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has…

As expected, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) announced a deal today between the Skype investor group and Joltid, the owner of the code that runs Skype. Joltid and Skype cofounders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis will get 14 percent of the new Skype in exchange for granting Skype ownership of the software…

Updated: A settlement has been reached that should wipe the slate on all of the litigation involving Skype and its founders, paving the way for the unit to be spun out of eBay (NSDQ: EBAY)—and also will wipe Index Ventures out of the picture, paidContent has confirmed.  Reports of a…

It only looks like deja vu all over again for Index Ventures, the early backer of Skype that is now part of the investor group buying 65 percent of the company from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) for $1.9 billion in cash. This time Index Ventures is investing in a profitable company—not…

EBay is finally putting us out of our misery when it comes to speculation about Skype but it isn’t getting completely out of the virtual phone business. Instead, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is selling 65 percent of Skype to an investor group led by Silver Lake in a deal valuing the…

Skype’s four year run under Ebay has been beset with troubles, and finally that is about to come to an end, as it gets sold to an investor group. The history of the marriage and pending divorce, in links (ascending chronological order):—eBay Acquires Skype For $2.6 Billion In Cash, Stock—EBay-Skype:…

Skype is finally about to be sold by Ebay to an investor group, which includes Andreessen Horowitz, the new VC firm headed by Marc Andreessen, reports NYT, citing sources. The deal will be announced tomorrow, it says. The possible buyout was first reported by Techcrunch on Friday last week. The…

With Robert Andrews: Skype is taking to court the owner of the very P2P infrastructure on which it depends, in a licensing dispute that could even kill the internet phone company in its current form. Parent eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) filed suit in London’s High Court against Joltid, a Jersey, England-based…

Once upon a time, after what optimistic folk call “the first bubble”, some entrepreneurs, realising their web startups would never amount to much, eschewed the traditional sell-off path (hire a banker for a search, endure due-diligence, negotiate a price) and chose a different exit route - eBay (NSDQ: EBAY). Well…

eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is switching on its AdChoice system in the UK - a behavioural targeter that uses buyers’ and sellers’ profile data to better target display adverts. eBay unveiled the scheme in the US back in October, powered by AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Platform-A behavioural unit Tacoda. Now, as a…