Now this is interesting. . . “eBay in talks to buy Skype, report says” from Reuters and Walls Street Journal.
I wrote a while back on the applications for Skype in the e-commerce space - as a payment mechanism to support pay per call classified amongst other “payment” applications. If you look at Kijiji China (an eBay company), they have already integrated “voice” as an inbound mechanism for creating listings, using it for lead generation is not so far fetched as well in countries where PC’s are not very “personal” (ie, shared via cyber cafes) but the phone is personal and ubiquitous.
Anyways, eventhough I work at eBay, I do not have additional insights or information outside of the articles I read publically. Just postulating like everyone else 
- Fred Wilson, Silicon Beat, Andy, Om, Infectious Greed . . . plus I might get in trouble if I go on my usual rambling. . .
