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According to The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post this morning, eBay (EBAY Quote) is in talks to buy Skype, a voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) telephony company, and the price could be as high as $5 billion. Skype has been in talks before, supposedly with News Corp.(NWS Quote) for $3 billion, but nothing has ever worked out. This, to me, represents a dramatic shift in eBay's strategy and an interesting evolutionary step in the Internet world. ...
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