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Skype CEO Josh Silverman can't stop smiling in this video interview we recorded in Menlo Park this morning.

If youa ve been scratching your head and wondering why eBay wanted any part of an Internet telephony service, you are not alone .

Remember the Cabbage Patch Kids craze? The Tickle Me Elmo frenzy? Meet their 2009 brethren, Zhu Zhu Pets.

The tech sector retreated Friday, as shares of Dell Inc. fell sharply following a drop in quarterly profit, signaling more problems for the computer maker.

The group of buyers - including Silver Lake, Joltid Limited, Andreessen Horowitz and Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis - are paying $1.9 billion in cash up front, with $125 million in principal notes.

Back in the day, it was bigger than Google, at least in terms of investment hype.

Pierre Omidyar is the latest Bay Area kajillionaire to jump into the save-the-news-business fray.

Google battling to rule VoIP. Google has begun the battle for VoIP supremacy, writes Garry Barker.

Already attacked for her past support of environmental causes, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's conservative credentials took another blow Tuesday when it was disclosed her charitable foundation donated $1.15 million to a Colorado group that supported seizing private property for open space.

Ebay stills rules as the online garage sale site, but auction upstart Glyde thinks it knows a better way to resell used books, CDs, DVDs and videogames.

Online auction site eBay is building a $334 million state-of-the-art, environmentally responsible data center in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Identity thieves will try anything to get into your account - even sending out eMails that look like they are form eBay.

1 online automotive marketplace worldwide, now offers free vehicle history reports through an exclusive agreement with Experian's AutoCheck.

The legal challenges to Intel Corp.'s sales tactics mounted Wednesday as New York's attorney general accused the world's biggest computer chip maker of using "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate.

" Most people know eBay Inc. for its online marketplace, where deals abound on everything from gadgets to antique furniture.

Most of Silicon Valley's biggest tech stocks lost ground today along with the Dow and Nasdaq.

San Jose-based EBay Inc. will concentrate on customers that want to export merchandize from China and will work with local companies to expand in the market, Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe said.

The "AutoCheck" information, supplied by Experian Automotive, will detail whether vehicles have been involved in major accidents, have salvage titles, have been stolen or repossessed, have had their odometers tampered with, or have seen special duty as a taxi or police vehicle.

Meg Whitman, former chief executive officer of eBay,A defended her decision to buy Skype in a radio interview with KTKZa TMs Capitol Hour featuring Eric Hogue.

The bitter battle over the future of the Internet calling service Skype appears to be nearing an end.