ricep5
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| reply to Subaru
Re: I still don't get it
said by Subaru  :i ask the same question on why AMD brought ATi. ATI has more in common with AMD than Skype ever had with eBay.
AMD needed;
1> Fab capacity
2> R&D talent
3> Access to some patent cross-licenses to Intel
4> Positive cash flow from the GPU biz
Clearly, ATI had synergy with AMD.
eBay is already starting to write down the Skype purchase on their books and will continue to before they dump them. It will then make the eventual sale look "positive" on the books, when in reality they overpaid.
They thought that having Skype integrated into the eBay bidding scheme would add value to the bidding process. For what they paid, they could have written their own P2P Voice client.
Not the first company to overreach on hype, and it won't be the last. |
