Some techy news from today – 2 September, 2009

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Gmail suffers widespread outage

The popular Google email service is down for most of its users

“We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail,” reads an alert posted at 3:53 pm US Eastern Time in the Google Apps Status Dashboard.

In that dashboard, Google offers performance and availability information about the online services included in its Apps collaboration and communication suite, such as Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites.

EBay to sell majority stake in Skype for US$1.9 billion

Investor group picks up 65 percent

EBay has reached an agreement to sell a 65 percent stake in its Skype internet telephony, video conferencing and instant messaging unit for US$1.9 billion in cash to an investor group led by Silver Lake.

In addition, eBay will receive a note in the principal amount of $125 million from the buyers, which also include Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the company said on Tuesday.

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