All of us online geeks have watched as eBay’s ownership of Skype not go as well as anyone had hoped. eBay recently agreed that they paid too much for the company, and developments of the platform haven’t been as aggressive as I would like.
Now, over on a blog on Guardian, there is a post saying Google might be looking to purchase Skype from eBay. This makes sense on many levels to me, as they gear up for their Android platform, and it would give eBay a good influx of cash to develop their business further.
Could Google have interest in Skype? I sure hope so because maybe then we will finally see Skype-In numbers come to Canada where most voice over IP services are managed by broadband providers, and are super expensive.
But isn’t the question more if eBay would sell Skype? I’m fairly sure Google would buy Skype if they had the chance, the infrastructure would make a good addition to Google Talk.
iirc, skype have been a loss for ebay. so it may well be that they would sell it…
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Haven’t read the original article, but I doubt Google would enter the VOIP market directly. Their core business is advertising and I wonder how they would do that with a voice service. Google Talk fits their needs perfectly to embrace the whole web without having to spend much costs related to this by-product.
Furthermore, Skype is a very closed protocol, in light of all Google products it would have to open up a lot.