VoIP provider Skype, whose corporate parent eBay has said it will spin off in an IPO in spring 2010, may be subject to a private offer from Netscape founder Marc Andressen's new venture capital firm and other private equity groups.
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Skype currently is facing a legal challenge from Joltid, a separate company still owned by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, over the underlying software that powers Skype.
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Either way, despite claims that Skype's reported figure of 450 million registered users might be bogus, the company is still on track to rake in more than $600 million in 2009, according to eBay financial reports.
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