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...TIME: eBay recently paid at least $2.6 billion for the Internet phone company Skype, and the two words most frequently used to describe the purchase were "head scratching." Was the price excessive...
...WHITMAN: We obviously think it was fair. We looked at value in Skype in a number of different ways: the amount we paid on a per-user basis, discounted cash flows, etc. We also looked at what we thought Skype could do on its own and with eBay...
...TIME: eBay has about 157 million users worldwide and Skype will soon have 57 million, but the overlap is only about 1%. How will you combine the two communities...
...TIME: eBay owns 25% of Craigslist.com. Are there options to acquire more...
...TIME: The New York Times recently started charging about $50 a year for access to certain features on its website, including its op-ed pages. Some people thought that a better idea would have been to charge a few pennies a page and make money on micropayments. Since eBay owns PayPal, are you looking at getting into that business...