The Skype sale: Hot Buzz and No Response

As you'd expect, there's lots of buzz about eBay selling Skype at the bargain price of $1.9 Billion and change. First the blogosphere shows a healthy four-fold spike in commentary...

And the twittersverse gets busy for a few hours... 

But the news hasn't affected newbies downloading Skype (the cumulative blue line) or users connecting to the Skype cloud (the red line).

It doesn't appear to have affected eBay stock. Presumably the news had been discounted earlier this year with repeated mentions of an IPO.

tags: skype, ebay, spinout, spinoff, charts, statistics, trends

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