Skype to offer money transfer between its members through PayPal

[Frederic Baud]

The story here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070320/tc_nm/skype_paypal_dc

Interesting move: use Skype instead of emails to do you PayPal
transfers. In the article they describe the use case of sending money
to friends and familly. I can also imagine in their plan the use case:
you are on a web site, click on the phone number that opens up your
Skype through the new Skype plug-in, the insite sales make you the
pitch and finally you are transfering the money over Skype for the
deal. That sounds a bit like the good old door to door salesman;
probably not as glamourous for a press release; but possibly more
lucrative. We'll see...

[Frederic Baud]

The story here
http://www.banknet360.com/news/NewsAbstract.do?na_id=8908&service_id=1&bi_id=

Will Instant Messaging that started as a nice little tool to chat with
Friends end up as a full-blown trading tool?