The New York Times first reported that the founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, were meeting with potential investors in the hopes to buy back Skype from online auctioning behempoth eBay.  Now, it looks like eBay may be planning their own public offering for Skype.

Zennstrom and Friis sold Skype to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 Billion.  Since the purhase, Skype has registered over 405 million users who can conduct free calls with other Skype users — and pay pennies per minute to call non-Skype users.  Selling off Skype could be very beneficial for eBay, who could use the cash generated from a sale to fund it’s U.S. operations.