EBay blew it with Skype?

[yesthattom]

When EBay bought Skype most people responded, “Why?” but I responded, “I don’t care, just as long as they don’t fuck it up.”

“EBay revises its ambitions for Skype” (NYT, Oct 2): “EBay is finally acknowledging that it paid too much for the Internet phone company Skype two years ago. On Monday, eBay, based in San Jose, Calif., said it was taking a $1.43 billion charge related to the acquisition of Skype. EBay paid $2.6 billion for the rapidly growing service in 2005.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/technology/02ebay.html?ref=technology

Of course, I had the same reaction when Nokia announced they bought map and navigational software maker Navteq today. But... what could possibly go wrong with that?