Skype can be sold

American Internet company eBay will consider selling its VoIP- service Skype in late 2008. If it fails to make useful on-line auction companies and PayPal payment system.

The largest online Aktion eBay may consider selling VoIP- service Skype, if it fails to successfully integrate with other business units. This was, in his interview with the Financial Times Thursday, April 17, said John Donahue (John Donahoe), CEO of eBay.

According to Donahoe, eBay will conduct an audit of Skype this year. ...

EBay has acquired a VoIP- service Skype in 2005. for $ 2.6 billion. Manual on-line auction planned to use Skype in conjunction with its other services to facilitate the sale and purchase of goods through the network. In 2007,. eBay representatives have stated that Skype does not justify the expectations placed on him.

Manual eBay also acknowledged that the price of the acquisition of Skype was overpriced at least a few.

The number of registered users of the service Skype is about 309 million. people - more than the eBay auction.

In October 2007,. eBay announced that it plans to reorganize Skype, in order to bring it out of a protracted crisis. At the same time left the service of one of the founder and CEO Niklas Zennstrom Skype (Niklas Zennstrom) largely because of poor financial performance. New CEO February 25, 2008 Mr.. was appointed Josh Silverman (Josh Silverman).

Recall that eBay yesterday published its financial report for the first quarter of 2008. Net income was $ 460 million. or $ 0.34 per share, which exceeded the corresponding figures for the same period last year - while net income was $ 377 million. The company's revenue totaled $ 2.19 billion.

At the end of the financial report for the first quarter, eBay increased its forecast for 2008. It is expected that the annual revenues of between $ 8.7 billion. up to $ 9 billion.