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Preston Gralla over at CMP’s TechSearch thinks Skype is a multi-billion dollar loser for eBay calling into question how much payback Skype will generate for the online auction giant.

Over the past few days I’ve received a bunch of emails from readers wondering what’s up with Yahoo Voice in light of the moves by eBay and Skype. Some question if Yahoo will be abandoning Voice due to the advertising relationship with eBay now and eBay’s deployment of Skype Me in eBay listings. Not. Others … Read more

I wonder how this will affect the likes of hosted VoIP players like Call Tower and Fonality now that the US Patent Office has issued a patent to 8 x 8 (i.e. Packet 8’s parent company). Hosted VoIP services are really also what Vonage and the rest of the players offer if you think about … Read more

Russell has a series of analytical posts on what the Skype Me addition means and doesn’t mean to eBay and the competition.

They move a large portion of their 800 number customer service calls over to Skype on free basis or even Skype In. More importantly, for the sellers the addition of Skype Me becomes a savings for them according to a Bleacher Bum I know. The savings is generated by eliminating higher cost inbound toll free … Read more

As I wrote on Monday, eBay has added Skype Me access to their listings for merchants.

To me this is old news, for my dear friend Om Malik had confided this to me weeks ago over one of our regular coffees and telephone chats. He’s been looking at options for a while, considering his next move. Everyone with any ambition always does. Of course, being his friend also meant that I … Read more

IDC has a report that tells us what the likes of Level3 have been saying is going to be true. That there will be a lot more VoIP users in the next few years, especially those who want alternative phones that offer simple set up. Can you spell PhoneGnome? This report, of all reports shows … Read more

Yesterday at the eBay Dev Con someone mentioned a pending big Tuesday announcement at eBay Live. Given the audience that will be in attendance my money is on the announcement of worldwide integration of Skype Click to Call within the Ebay web portal. A lot of what I saw this weekend leads me to believe … Read more

According to this news account, the recent survey of 900 people by TeleGeography Research shows that the cable MSO’s in the USA are now attracting lots of new converts to VoIP.