Skype Files $100M IPO

Skype S.à r.l. filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an Initial Public Offering of its American depositary shares, or ADSs. The proposed maximum aggregate offering price is $100 million. The company intends to list the common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market. (Source: Street Insider)

Skype having more and more advertisements these days

Here’s what it says in text:

Good day to you, nice meeting you on Skype. This is Prince from Prince computers (SG), We are an IT company, which specialize in buying, selling, upgrading and repairing of both laptop and desktops.
We are currently looking for Damaged and Used laptops and desktops for the export market. *Terms and conditions do apply*
If you are looking at repairing any of your desktops or laptops, all our repairs and upgrades comes with a one month onsite software warranty and one year onsite hardware.
For more information.
Please feel free to mail or msn us @
Prince_computers@hotmail.com
Visit us @
www.princecomputer.net (to find out our complete diversified range of services)
Call us @
91264030(sg)
Just give us a ring or drop us a mail for more enquiries ,no obligations to purchases

I am getting annoyed logging in to Skype seeing such things. These people just add me to their contacts and send one really long message.

EBay to say goodbye to Skype

EBay plans to spin off its Skype unit, acknowledging that the Web telephone service does not fit with the rest of the company, in an indictment of former CEO Meg Whitman’s acquisition strategy.

EBay, whose shares rose 3 percent in after-hours trade, said on Tuesday it was planning an initial public offering for Skype by the first half of 2010, a move widely seen as putting a ‘for sale’ sign on the unit to fetch potential buyers.

Two people familiar with eBay’s thinking said the online auction company could seek substantially more than $2 billion for Skype. But some analysts doubted that it could fetch so much in current markets.

The San Jose-based eBay bought Skype in 2005 for $2.6 billion, in what was its biggest ever acquisition. John Donahoe, who became eBay chief executive a year ago, has vowed to evaluate whether the telephone service was a good fit with the rest of the company, which includes Web payments service PayPal along with its core auctions business.

“We believe operating Skype as a stand-alone publicly traded company is the best path for maximizing its potential,” Donahoe said in a statement on Tuesday. (Source: Yahoo)

Spam with cheese spam with black pepper. Delicious spam:

So much spam in the market too.