Skype would be a much better product if Google had it anyway. Ebay has done nothing for it. Ebay itself is a dodo; it is all crap on that site, only a matter of time before Amazon kills it.

I don't see Google buying Skype for billions of dollars though. Hopefully the Gmen have more sense than that.

Unless, of course, they could purchase Skype with TARP funds... entirely possible.

Tis a beautiful thing, America, where they tax the poor and give to the rich. Our trickle down economics will fix us all, fix us good.

At least we have our bombs, lots and lots of bombs... "what's that you say?"

Skype is a money-loser. What assets have they got? Just a proprietary piece of software that doesn't even interoperate properly with all the other VoIP software out there. So who would buy them? It would be a waste of money.

This might be good for Skype. Then they could get rid of the compulsory use of PayPal when you are buying Skype credits. My wife uses Skype to talk to her mother on a landline in Ukraine from Australia all the time because its much cheaper than calling cards, has good voice quality and doesn't drop out all the time. What gets my goat is the compulsory use of Paypal to buy the Skype credits - something Ebay wanted but the ACCC knocked out for Aussies to trade on Ebay.

Oh god PLEASE let google buy it. Ebay seems determined to run it into the ground, skype v4 is awful.

If one of those US carriers picks it up its game over :(