A small group of venture capital funds have agreed with eBay to acquire a majority stake in Skype. The group is led by Silver Lake Partners, joined by Index and Andreessen Horowitz Ventures.
I wrote a blog this morning speculating that this deal might happen, and also speculated that Silver Lakes might be one of the investors. It is now confirmed.
Quite a powerful combination – Skype and Avaya.
The next generation of phone systems will be a highly intelligent server, much as they are now, but, the talk / communicate medium will not necessarily be the bulky phone on your desk, but rather a variety of end point devices. Skype, Google, Facebook, iPhone, Blackberry – these all in one appliances will be the talk / communicate path, and the server at the back end will bridge these technologies together. I’m calling this TELCOM 2.0, and it looks like Skype / Avaya will be well positioned to take advantage of this technology.
Written by: Jeff Wiener. www.digitcom.ca. Follow TheTelecomBlog.com by: RSS, Twitter, Identi.ca, or Friendfeed
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