If you woke up this morning and listened/read the news you could be forgiven for thinking you were teleported back to 1998:
Ebay in talks to buy Skype: reports
Shares of eBay Inc. fell nearly 4 percent on Thursday following published reports the online auction company was in talks to buy online telephone company Skype Technologies SA.
Google hires ‘father of the Internet’ Vinton Cerf
Cerf, 62, whose official title will be chief Internet evangelist, was hired away from telecommunications company MCI Inc. and charged with exploring new Internet applications for the Web search company.
News Corp. said on Thursday it would buy IGN Entertainment Inc., a Web network for video game fans, for about $650 million as part of a rapid-fire strategy to expand its online entertainment and media.
This is just the beginning of the craziness. Rupert Murdoch is on an internet buying spree freaking out about having missed the boat. Ebay has decided that it wants to take on phone service? Why not? That’s one of many areas that Google is aiming for especially now that they’ve hired Vint Cerf to come up with even wackier plans.
Too bad no one has any money left to play the stock market.
