{"id":3036,"date":"2009-09-01T16:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2009-09-01T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T20:04:31","slug":"ebay-sells-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/09\/01\/ebay-sells-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay sells Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after outbidding Google to buy it for more than $3 billion, eBay has now <a title=\"sold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/02\/technology\/companies\/02ebay.html\" target=\"_blank\">sold <\/a>the majority interest in the online calling service Skype to a group of private investors for\u00a0$2.75 billion.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, who chairs the Information Systems Department, can discuss winners and losers.<\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after outbidding Google to buy it for more than $3 billion, eBay has now sold the majority interest in the online calling service Skype to a group of private investors for\u00a0$2.75 billion.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, who chairs the Information Systems Department, can discuss winners and losers. Contact N. Venkat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}