Last week on TechCrunch: The Skype settlement, Hitler vs Obama in the app store, Scamville, SnapNames and more…
I’d love to have witnessed the scene at eBay’s house back in 2005 when the FedEx guy delivered their exciting new purchase…
“Hey, guys! Skype’s arrived!”
“Awesome! Quick – open it…”
“Wait, what the hell… this isn’t what we ordered. It’s just a big box full of users with the word ‘Skype’ written on the side in Sharpie – none of the core p2p technology is in here.”
“What? Didn’t you read the description before you bid on it?”
“I guess not. I just got carried away with all the excitement.”
“Shit dude. How much did we pay?”
“Uh… $2.6 billion”
“Man, we have to stop buying stuff on the Internet.”
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