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From the monthly archives:
Here’s a column I posted at globeandmail.com about the eBay takeover of Skype:
“There’s only one real question that springs to mind in the wake of eBay’s takeover bid for voice-over-Internet provider Skype  which could cost the on-line auction company up to $4-billion (U.S.)  and it is this: Is the dot-com bubble back, [...]
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Here’s a column I posted to globeandmail.com about the speculation that Skype will be bought:
“First it was Yahoo. Then it was Microsoft. Then it was Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate News Corp. Now eBay is supposedly in talks to take over Skype, the voice-over-Internet company started by Swedish entrpeneur Niklas Zennstrom. According to a recent report [...]
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Here’s a column I posted at globeandmail.com about the Kazaa lawsuit:
“What a hydra-headed monster Shawn Fanning gave birth to. The Napster founder’s company didn’t single-handedly create the digital music revolution — German researchers arguably did that when they came up with the MP3 standard — but the Napster network poured fuel on the flames, [...]
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