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by earl
5379 days ago
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Meg Whitman is, as far as I can tell, an incompetent moron. Examine the skype acquisition: the way I understand, Meg/ebay acquired skype without buying the backing technology / p2p tech which remained owned by Joltid / Niklas / Janus. Ebay then went on to not pay some of the earnouts of the skype acquisition which I'm sure made Niklas / Janus think highly of ebay [1]. It literally boggles the mind that she could be stupid enough to acquire a company without owning the backing tech; it would be like a company buying an OS that came without ownership of the kernel. Niklas / Janus then used this to earn a bunch more money when ebay went on to sell skype. For some background:
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/ebay-skype-sale/ [1] http://techcrunch.com/2007/10/01/skype-ceo-zennstrom-steps-d... |
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