The payment, together with an additional amount of €630 million will be taken as an impairment charge to be recorded as part of eBay's third quarter financial results, the company said. "eBay believes that the €375 million payment is reasonable given the progress and anticipated rapid growth of Skype's active user base," eBay said in its statement.īy advancing this payment ahead of the original date, eBay has settled all of its obligations related to additional payments tied to the Skype acquisition, Durzy said. The "earn-out" agreement called for payments of up to approximately €1.2 billion based upon specific active user, revenue and gross profit targets to be achieved in 2008 and the first half of 2009. On Monday, eBay also announced that it has paid €375 million ($530 million) to settle "all of its future obligations" under an agreement signed with certain Skype shareholders as part of the acquisition. Skype will try to boost its monetization capabilities by exploring broader e-commerce options, possibly within services like SkypeFind, in which businesses are listed and recommended, and SkypePrime, a service for selling advise and expertise. Gomez, meanwhile, was asked by Whitman to return to eBay and take on his new role, which will involve high-level communications and government relations tasks, Durzy said.ĭurzy acknowledged that eBay is disappointed that Skype hasn't performed as well as expected in the short term in the areas of user activity and monetization, but the company believes Skype is still a very valuable asset. As non-executive chairman of Skype, he will serve mostly in an advisory role, Durzy said. Zennstrom decided to step down as CEO of his own accord in order to focus on other projects. The Skype management changes aren't due to the unit's financial performance, said eBay spokesman Hani Durzy. In August, Skype suffered a widely publicized and embarrassing outage that lasted about two days and left millions of users fuming worldwide and many openly questioning the stability of Skype's technical platform.
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