eBay to sell Skype?

There are rumours that eBay is planning on selling Skype which it purchased for $2.6bn in 2005. Since then eBay has tried and failed to integrate Skype into eBay and has recently been criticised for holding back Skype’s innovation. For those who don’t know, Skype is a VOIP application allowing voice communication over the Internet to other computers, mobiles and landlines. When the deal went through I assumed that Skype and eBay would be a perfect combination allowing buyers and sellers to communicate quickly and for free, however this does not seem to be the case.