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In what has to be viewed as a promotion and an insertion at the same time, eBay has moved their UK General Counsel into the position to oversee all Skype legal and regulatory affairs.

David Evans has a view over at Corante that Click2Call will be a big thing in dating, and Skype will play a big part in that.

One of the classiest guys in the business, and a real polished CFO, Paul White is leaving Delta Three to look at other opportunities.

Since news and details are so sketchy, I went out and talked to some friends in the music business and ring tone sector to get some more insight about what this could mean to Skype and the music business. Overall, the feeling is unanimous that there is more to the deal than RingTones and images. … Read more

Last week a rocking big story broke in the Wall Street Journal about Tello, a company that has extremely deep roots in VoIP, especially when you realize that the essence of the company is Presence, and the person who has been championing presence almost as long as he has been championing VoIP is Jeff Pulver. … Read more

We all think the blog wars and our ever ongoing battle to get news out is tough, but heck, guys like me have it easy. No one’s having us drive over land mines to get stories. I just saw this story and my heart skipped a beat. While we cover stories and deal with PR … Read more

Why in anyone’s mind would a deal between SalesForce.com and eBay/Skype be kept mostly under wraps? No it wasn’t under wraps. I missed it. (see above) and so did a lot of the other VoIP bloggers. The implications of a Skype & SalesForce.com alliance are huge.  What’s bigger than Skype getting into the business of … Read more

Taking a page out of Yahoo’s playbook, AOL has announced a series of relationships with DSL providers to help migrate their users from dial up to broadband for as little as two dollars over their dial up package price of $24.95. Expect to see a bundle deal with the MSO’s coming down the pike would … Read more

Level3 keeps growing their market reach and network. Today they announced the acquisition of Progress Telecom. In the past I said the WilTel acquisition which is now in integration mode, and from what I hear almost done –read head count reductions coming soon–would yield even more.

In what has to be a move to counter Skype and expand footprint, Vonage has added virtual telephone numbers across Europe. Good move.