Online auction giant eBay Inc. announced a deal yesterday to become one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, buying Internet phone-service leader Skype Technologies SA. Although ...

Ebay has agreed to buy Skype, the fast-growing provider of voice calls over the internet, for $2.6 billion, with the price rising to as much as $4.1 billion if the company hits certain performance ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Online auctioneer eBay Inc. agreed today to pay at least $2.6 billion in cash and stock for Internet phone provider Skype Technologies SA, confounding many analysts who questioned ...

EBay Inc. is bucking some of its big Internet peers in a little-noticed battle on Capitol Hill. The on-line auctioneer is pitted against Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., America Online Inc. and other Web ...

This article has been excerpted from Expand Your Business Using eBay, available from Entrepreneur Press. eBay is huge and growing every day, but it is still merely a dot on the map of the internet’s ...