For years it’s been clear that the 2005 acquisition of Skype made little sense for eBay (EBAY), and eBay CEO John Donahoe has told associates he’d be willing to unload the Internet-calling service bought by his predecessor, Meg Whitman, for a whopping $3.1 billion. Now it appears Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are raising money for a buyback of ... (279 words)

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