Skype Technologies has acquired Internet voice technology company Sonorit Holding and its U.S. subsidiary, Camino Networks, for about US$27 million in eBay stock, Skype announced Tuesday.Skype, which is owned by eBay, made the acquisition in order to add the companies’ online voice engineering experts to its staff, it said. They will help design and develop future versions of Skype’s voice-over-IP (VoIP) product. Skype described Sonorit and Camino as start-up companies building products for speech processing, coding and transmission over Internet-based networks. Camino’s speech products are geared toward mobile IP networks, according to a biography of Jonathan Christensen, Camino’s president and chief executive officer, on the website of an investment company for which he serves as an adviser. Sonorit and Camino have been the subject of at least one lawsuit. In December, Global IP Sound (GIPS), a company that offers VoIP technologies, filed a lawsuit that charged them with violating trade secrets. GIPS said some Sonorit workers were former GIPS employees. EBay bought VoIP provider Skype in 2005 for $2.5 billion, aiming to help buyers and sellers using its online auction site to communicate with each other easily. -Nancy Gohring, IDG News ServiceFor related news coverage, read StreamCast Files RICO Charges Against Skype and Skype Offers Web Calls Minus PC Connection.Check out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content feature Expedia poised to take flight with generative AI CTO Rathi Murthy sees the online travel service’s vast troves of data and AI expertise fueling a two-pronged transformation strategy aimed at growing the company by bringing more of the travel industry online. By Paula Rooney Jun 02, 2023 7 mins Travel and Hospitality Industry Digital Transformation Artificial Intelligence case study Deoleo doubles down on sustainability through digital transformation The Spanish multinational olive oil processing company is immersed in a digital transformation journey to achieve operational efficiency and contribute to the company's sustainability strategy. By Nuria Cordon Jun 02, 2023 6 mins CIO Supply Chain Digital Transformation brandpost Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success As global data volumes rise, business must prioritize their resiliency strategies. By Neal Weinberg Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Security brandpost Democratizing HPC with multicloud to accelerate engineering innovations Cloud for HPC is facilitating broader access to high performance computing and accelerating innovations and opportunities for all types of organizations. By Tanya O'Hara Jun 01, 2023 6 mins Multi Cloud Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe