Microsoft In $7B Skype Deal? Oh, How They Laughed When eBay Paid $2.6B (Update)

of $1.4 billion, and a 30% stake in Skype to private equity shop Silver Lake, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and venture firm��� Andreessen Horowitz in a leveraged buyout. eBay listed its 30% stake at $620 million in , implying a value of...