eBay to Acquire Skype

$2.6 billion shmackerooo's, baby, and that's just the beginning.

I did a review of the major media corp purchases recently & discovered that they're all buying stuff, all the time. Big companies swallowing up the small companies, with Yahoo, Google, Microsoft & CNET leading the way.

For today, however, this is the big one. Wonder what eBay's intentions are here, and if they, too, are planning to compete for global desktop/IM/VoIP/search/blog/marketplace domination?