http://www.physorg.com/news158949373.html
Captain Obvious called, wants his headline back.
I'm surely not the only one who thought the Skype acquisition by eBay was a huge WTF. Now they are forced to admit it.
It is funny that they are both independently profitable. No synergy at all.
To be fair to my former employer, they attempted (several times) to create "synergies" between skype, paypal, and eBay - the frequently restarted "Trident" project for instance. But these projects always had the feel of shaping reality to fit Meg's viewpoint, and always doomed to failure.