eBay and Skype: The Acquisition, Resale, and Lessons for Platform Strategy
Yenra | Prepared October 3, 2026
Guide: https://yenra.com/voiceoverip/skype.html

Purpose: distinguish a transaction fact, management explanation and interpretation.
Instructions: read each source in context and record its date and purpose. Use
the linked guide's timeline for orientation. Avoid deriving returns from two
headline amounts with different ownership or accounting scopes.

Claim to assess:
Customer action proposed:
Expected incremental outcome and comparison:
Implementation dependencies and ongoing costs:
Primary source / author / publication date / event date:
Source kind: announcement / closing filing / annual report / later advocacy:
What the document establishes:
What remains uncertain:
Independent or contemporaneous evidence needed:

Financial figure / currency / date:
Kind: proposed price / consideration / valuation / stake / proceeds / charge:
Ownership percentage and other relevant components:
Additional cash flows, timing and assumptions needed for a return analysis:

Fictional practice: 100 calls in a marketplace voice pilot establish usage.
Write what evidence would connect usage to resolved questions, incremental
completed orders and support cost. These are not eBay/Skype measurements.

Reason to revisit: new primary evidence, corrected figures or changed links.
Reviewer / checked date / conclusion with explicit remaining uncertainty:

Supporting sources (see guide for context):
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065088/000089161805000726/f12571exv99w1.htm
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065088/000095013405019311/f13541e8vk.htm
https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-reiterates-truth-about-skype/
https://ebay.q4cdn.com/610426115/files/doc_news/archive/EBAY_News_2009_11_19_General.pdf
https://news.microsoft.com/source/2011/05/10/microsoft-to-acquire-skype-3/
https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar12/financial-review/notes/business-combinations/index.html
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/skype-is-retiring-in-may-2025-what-you-need-to-know?ad=us&rs=en-us&ui=en-us
https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-completes-sale-of-skype/