By EconMatters As global economy slowly recovers from the Great Recession, market confidence starts to return, Microsoft finally decided to join the M&A party and made the biggest acquisition in its 36-year history—paying $8.5 billion cash for the Internet telephone service Skype Technologies SA from eBay and a group of private equity investors including Silver Lake Partners. eBay, Inc. who acquired Skype in a 2005 deal valued at around $3.1 billion, sold about 70% of Skype to the private group at a loss in 2009 after failure to integrate Skype into its eCommerce model….
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