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According to foreign media coverage, easy interesting EBay announces platform of famous and online auction, the price of 2 billion dollar sells the 65% share up to that serves the communication below the banner Skype invest financial group to some.

So huge amount lets a person can’t help arising associate: Be what reason is made after all allied do EBay of 4 years and Skype part company?

The matter still must speak of from 2005, at that time, EBay opens up endowment 2.6 billion dollar receives Skype of Internet communication company the banner to fall. A lot of industry public figures are bought this sum with great quantity to EBay published a lot of guessing, think EBay may march Internet communication domain.

Actually, EBay be willing to part with or use is cost such gigantic endowment buying Skype is to have its depth reason. EBay company from at the beginning of founding, the network of establish auctions platform to expand a line and did not change, the intention that buys Skype hopes namely can VoIP of have the aid of (technology of Internet agreement speech, common calls a network the phone) the service can promote the communication between consumer and businessman, perfect a network to sell service quality thereby.

EBay is such tentative ideas at first: Consumer can use network phone to enquire the detail information of more commodity, and the businessman can go to the lavatory through network phone reply, whole process have the aid of communicates platform at, that is Skype.

But, such EBay tentative idea had never come true. The mainest reason is: Most EBay user thinks email can have satisfied real requirement. Email can be used at any time and place, network phone became burden instead.

Gold of · of Mu of soup of writer of traveler of rich of science and technology shows, he is the user of an EBay, but he uses network phone and businessman connection rarely. The user that buys because of a lot of nets hopes more faceless finish trade, chatting is a good thing, but people more apt privacy sex, they won’t be talked about with others a lot of about bought business.

This one viewpoint got another expert installs Dimusen approbate, he thinks 3 component of EBay system: Company of express of consumer, businessman, tripartite, won’t produce too much connection.

Divide this beyond, easy interesting Skype is allied still put in other issue, the most outstanding is — pattern of the company culture of two companies, management is not harmonious. EBay is a very conservative, composed company, skype is indicative democracy, reform. In 4 years of union, the administrative group of Skype often changes, the progress that did not give Skype brings the influence of any materiality.

Sum up simply:

A good product was not used correctly, became chicken ribs. Divide a coexistence, add up to a two injuries, below such situation, make EBay issue decision undersell Skype eventually. As to the future of Skype, development of Internet telephone business is rapid nowadays, skype still has a space of vast put to good use.