Cisco is ready to pay for Skype five billion dollars

Cisco has made a bid for the leadership of the leading IP-telephony service Skype, says TechCrunch’s editor Michael Arrington, with reference to an anonymous source.
Cisco is ready to pay for Skype five billion dollars. At the same time Skype is currently preparing for the IPO. On the filing of the application to the Commission for Securities and Exchange (SEC) became known in early August.

According to the placement of Skype was calculated to assess the entire company at about five billion dollars. Thus, the proposal consistent with Cisco’s own assessment service.

In September 2009, the previous owner of Skype – Internet auction eBay – sold a 70 percent stake in a group of private investors, leaving himself a 30-percent package. Then the whole company valued at 2.75 billion dollars. EBay bought Skype in 2005 for 2,6 billion.

Skype is the largest IP-telephon service in the world. Total users of Skype is more than 500 million people in the world. Cisco, in turn, is one of the leaders of the telecommunications industry.