EBay to Sell Skype Stake for $1.9B

August 31, 2009

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EBay Inc. plans to sell a 65 percent stake in its online phone unit Skype for $1.9 billion to private investors including Silver Lake and a venture firm run by the Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen.

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