Is It Time for Microsoft to Spin Off Skype?
First, eBay bought Skype in 2005 for $2.6 billion. Two years later, the company wrote down $1.43 billion of its investment, and four years after that, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) bought the company for $8.5 billion.
Many of us were skeptical Microsoft would get what it wanted from the deal. As Fool analyst Rick Munarriz wrote when analyzing the purchase:
Source Fool.com
