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Ebay has planned since August and initially controversial sale of its VoIP subsidiary, Skype has now been successfully completed. Only two weeks before the dispute between the U.S. and the two auction portal Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis of court agreement could be settled.

As announced at eBay sold 70 percent of Skype, a consortium of investors that the new company Joltid founder of Skype, which belongs to Canada Pension Plan Investmen Board. The new owners will continue to count the investment company and the Silver Lake co-founded by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen Andreessen holding Horowitz….. The British investment firm Index Ventures and its controversial partner Mike Volpi agreed withdrawn as of the Skype acquisition.

Ebay receives for the shares sold 1.9 billion U.S. dollars in cash and a corporate bond in the amount of 125 million U.S. dollars. There are also bonds worth 50 million U.S. dollars. Ebay will contribute 30 percent instead of the originally planned 35 percent of Skype. The sale valued the VoIP service with about 2.75 billion U.S. dollars (1.8 billion euros).

The former eBay boss Meg Whitman had paid in August 2005 approximately 2.6 billion U.S. dollars for Skype. The VoIP service could not meet the high expectations, however. Mid-2008 was first announced that eBay attracts the sale of Skype into consideration. Zennstrom and Friis wanted to redeem Skype Although the contract was awarded in September, but the investor group.

The two Skype founders then tried to torpedo the deal that took their complaints back to the beginning of November, but under the court agreement. For this they receive a 14-percent stake in Skype, and seats on the board. The P2P technology, “Global Index Software” comes into the possession of Skype.