In his latest salvo aimed at eBay, Carl Icahn once again called on the company to make public to its shareholders all documents related to eBay’s 2009 sale of Skype. Icahn is intent on proving that eBay was somehow duped into selling — or chose to sell — Skype to a consortium because eBay board member Marc Andreessen was a part of it, instead of selling it to its eventual owner Microsoft. Ebay, which Icahn says has agreed to let him view only some of the documents, has denied these accusations.
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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