Zennstrom decided to step down as CEO of his own accord in order to focus on other projects. The Skype management changes aren’t due to the unit’s financial performance, said eBay spokesman Hani Durzy. In August, Skype suffered a widely publicized and embarrassing outage that lasted about two days and left millions of users fuming worldwide and many openly questioning the stability of Skype’s technical platform. However, eBay CEO and President Meg Whitman, discussing the second quarter’s financial results in a conference call in July, said that, despite its revenue and user growth, Skype hasn’t achieved the desired level of “user activity.” Meanwhile, registered user accounts grew 94 percent to 220 million. In the second quarter, ended June 30, Skype’s net revenue hit $90 million, up 103 percent compared with the same quarter in 2006.
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Gomez will return to the eBay fold as a senior vice president for corporate affairs.ĮBay acquired Skype, a provider of Internet telephony services, in October 2005 for approximately US$2.6 billion, plus an optional amount dependent on the achievement of certain goals.įrom the start, many have questioned the logic behind the acquisition, suggesting that eBay would have a difficult time recouping its investment and leveraging Skype to boost interactions eBay among buyers and sellers. After serving as general manager of Skype North America and later Skype Chief Marketing Officer, he was named its president in December 2006. Michael van Swaaij, eBay’s Chief Strategy Officer, is stepping in as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is hired, eBay announced Monday.Īlso out is Henry Gomez, who has been with eBay since 2000 and joined Skype about two years ago.
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Microsoft plans to add Skype support to its Xbox and Kinect gaming devices and Windows Phone mobile operating system, and to connect Skype users with its own Lync, Outlook and Xbox Live communications services, according to Computer World.Skype’s co-founder Niklas Zennstrom has handed over his CEO title to become non-executive chairman of the board of directors of this eBay unit, whose impact on its parent company remains an open question. Skype will become a new business unit within Microsoft, run by current Skype CEO Tony Bates, who will report directly to Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer, a sign of the importance of the acquisition to Microsoft, Forbes reports.
Skype filed for a $100 million IPO last August. The company reported a $6.9 million net loss in 2010, and just over $1 billion in liabilities.
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The Luxembourg-based internet phone company, which made a name for itself offering free voice and video calls from PC to PC, began life as a venture capital start-up before eBay acquired it for $2.6 billion in 2005 then sold a majority stake to an investment consortium including its founders and Silver Lake in 2009. There had been reports last week that Skype was in acquisition or partnership talks with Cisco, Facebook and Google, according to Computer World. Google accounts for 65 percent of all searches. Microsoft, better known for its Office suite products, has lagged behind in getting its brand name in Internet services, despite heavy investment in its Bing search engine. Microsoft is to buy the voice-over-internet company Skype for as much as $8.5 billion, reports confirmed Tuesday.
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