{"id":11539,"date":"2009-09-01T02:06:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T10:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2009-09-01T02:17:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T10:17:08","slug":"ebay-to-sell-skype-to-private-investors-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/ebay-to-sell-skype-to-private-investors-report.html","title":{"rendered":"EBay to sell Skype to private investors: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Internet auction and services company <span id=\"lw_1251796761_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">EBay Inc<\/span> has reached a deal to sell its online telephony unit Skype to a group of private investors, the New York Times said, citing two people briefed on its plans.<\/p>\n<p>Andreessen Horowitz, a new venture capital firm headed by the Netscape co-founder <span id=\"lw_1251796761_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Marc Andreessen<\/span>, is likely to be among the investors in the group, the paper cited the people as saying.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1251796761_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">London<\/span>-based <span id=\"lw_1251796761_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Index Ventures<\/span> and Silver Lake Partners may also be involved in the deal, one of the people told the paper.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090901\/bs_nm\/us_skype_ebay\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Internet auction and services company EBay Inc has reached a deal to sell its online telephony unit Skype to a group of private investors, the New York Times said, citing two people briefed on its plans. Andreessen Horowitz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4565,3364,7289,11013],"class_list":["post-11539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-co-founder","tag-london","tag-private-investors","tag-venture-capital-firm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11541,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions\/11541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}