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Old 03-13-2010, 12:56 PM  
CarlosTheGaucho
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Originally Posted by holograph View Post
skype was developed by same folks who developed kazaa p2p sharing software. two founders and 3 developers. kazaa must have made them little fortune

in 2005 it was sold to ebay for 2.6 billion. next year ebay reported 1.7 billion loss for skype
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
Yeah I had a feeling I read something like that, it's also impossible to find any actual "profit" data

Interesting read
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