"TAP não sobrevive se se mantiver pública", garante Pinto Luz

[salvadorveiga]

ainda bem que a ebay se esta' a livrar da Skype... uma compra cara, que so os divergem do core da empresa...

Andavam a fazer muitas compras disparatadas... para alem da Skype parece que vao vender outra q compraram ha um ano e qq coisa

[atomez]

EBay pondera fazer o IPO da Skype.

Isto é interessante, não só pelo IPO em si que é promissor mas também porque pode ser o arranque de uma nova onda de IPOs nas techs

EBay Unveils Skype IPO Plans

The auction site says it will sell shares in its PC-calling business; some speculate the announcement could be a tactic for negotiating a deal

Executives at eBay (EBAY) have made plain that Skype wasn't long for their stable of businesses. What was less clear is how the e-commerce giant would dispose of the division that lets users place free or cheap phone calls over the Internet.

The suspense ended on Apr. 14 when eBay said it would separate Skype through an initial share offering, selling stock to the public in the first half of 2010.

Or maybe the suspense has just begun. On its face, the announcement represents a sensible way to unlock the value of a company that's growing rapidly, but has never lived up to the expectations outlined by eBay executives, who shelled out $2.6 billion for Skype in 2005 and later paid an additional $500 million in bonuses.

Skype sales surged 44%, to $551 million, last year and the company expects them to top $1 billion in 2011. The user base surged 47%, to 405 million, in 2008. "As an independent company, [management] could take it to a new level," says Nitzan Shaer, a former Skype executive who is now a managing director at High Start Group, which consults and invests in tech startups. "Is this a Google-level IPO? Maybe."