Skype Founders Ready to Buy Out eBay?

Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are looking for investors to buy back Skype, the VoIP service they developed and later sold to eBay.  According to the New York Times, the two young entrepreneurs have recently been in touch with several capital funds.

John Donahoe, the President and CEO of eBay, is said to remain skeptical about the service which has little synergy with the his own site's key auction business.

Although eBay originally paid 2.6 billion dollars for Skype back in October 2005, Zennstrom and Friis are said to be trying to secure 1 billion dollars to buy back the company they founded in 2003.