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Founders of Skype want their company back
Prepared to pay less for it
The New York Times claims that the Skype founders are trying to buy back the Voice over IP phone service from Google.
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis sold their company to eBay four years ago for $2.6 billion and now they want to buy it back for about $2 billion. Sources told The New York Times the two men have been meeting with private equity firms and gathering their own funds to finance the deal.
According to Skype, its service has more than 405 million registered users. The compares with 54 million users when eBay bought it in 2005. However eBay admits that it bought something it really can't do much with and it has said that it is willing to sell it for the right price.
The Times reported that a source with knowledge of the plans said that Zennstrom and Friis are working toward a deal worth $2 billion. So we guess they think that it has lost value over the years.