eBay, the lumbering 500 lb gorilla, is in talks now to purchase Skype. This would mark the latest in a long list of aquisitions by the company in the past year:

EBay Inc. is in talks to acquire Internet-telephone company Skype Technologies SA for between $2 billion and $3 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

This news article was written on September 10, 2005, quoting Reuters.