Google/Skype Acquisition or Partnership Imminent?

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This week Techcrunch broke news that Google and EBay are in talks about a Skype acquisition or partnership deal. Skype, acquired in late 2005 for $3.1 billion, has been a financial albatross around Ebay's neck. Google, by contrast, is just beginning to think about how to dominate the voice space. They have a VOIP service through GTalk, a free 411 service and GrandCentral, a telephone management service they acquired last year for $50 million. Google Android and Skype are a match that's made for each other. Android handsets are poised to spread like wildfire across the open source and developer communities upon release. On Skype, at any given time there are 10 million simultaneous users. Skype is the glue that can pull all the nascent Google products together. So how will this happen?

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	ZiiValue (chance)	Answer	MyValue (0% to 100% chance)	Possible Outcomes
	17%			Acquisition
	17%			Partnership
	66%			Status Quo

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