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Investors Pool Resources For Skype

Have any interest in a slightly used peer-to-peer Internet telephony service? It's Oprah's favorite! If not, a new group of venture capital and private equity firms have reportedly joined forces to take Skype off of eBay's hands. Along with a few multi-billion dollar private equity firms, some early Skype investors are apparently involved, including Index Ventures. eBay, which recently announced plans to spin off Scype in 2010 IPO, is said to be looking for at least $2 billion.

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