Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis sold their company eBay four years ago for $ 2.6 billion. Sources told The New York Times with the two men have been meeting with private companies and collect their own funds to finance the transaction.

After selling his company, two of them created a venture capital firm Atomico.

According to Skype, its more than 405 million registered users. In comparison with 54 million users, when eBay bought it in 2005.

eBay has acknowledged that Skype has some synergy with its core business, “The Times said. And eBay Chief Executive has stated publicly that he is willing to sell it at a reasonable price.

None of the co-founders of eBay will not comment “Times” about a possible sale. But the Times reported that a source of knowledge about the plans said that Zennstrom and Friis are working on a deal worth $ 2 billion.