eBay now letting Skype be Skype, exec says
Two-and-a-half years after eBay bought Skype, the online auction giant has moved away from trying to create new, merged capabilities through the acquisition and is letting Skype be what it is.
“There’s less focus at eBay today on finding the place where eBay and Skype intersect on the Web and mash up to create a new … communication paradigm for eBay, and more focus on Skype growing its business and eBay growing its business,” said Jonathan Christensen, Skype’s general manager of audio and video, at the Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) in Mountain View, California.
The deal in October 2005 disrupted the pioneering VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) software company for a while, Christensen said.