EBay to buy Internet phone firm Skype
12th Sep 2005, 17:55 GMT
Ebay has agreed to buy Skype, the fast-growing provider of voice calls over the internet, for $2.6 billion, with the price rising to as much as $4.1 billion if the company hits certain performance targets over the next three years.
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