Reuters and other outlets report that eBay is setting up a new headquarters for Asian operations in South Korea. While eBay has been fiercly fighting Alibaba in China, Reuters said eBay reports Korea generates 77 percent of eBay's Asian revenue. eBay CEO Meg Whitman announced the news while speaking in South Korea at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

eBay-owned Skype, meanwhile, announced it has entered a deal with Asia Pacific's largest telco-independent Internet communications service provider, Pacific Internet Limited (PacNet). The two companies have concluded an agreement to deliver a co-branded version of the Skype software, providing Skype-based voice services in Singapore. Skype allows customers to make free high quality voice calls via their PC over the Internet to other Skype callers, and calls to any landline or mobile worldwide at competitive rates.

PacNet is the first Internet communications service provider in South East Asia to have signed a co-branding agreement with Skype. Under the agreement covering both the corporate business and consumer market segments, the two partners will bring Skype to Singapore through a co-branded "PacNet-Skype" portal, scheduled to launch this year.

PacNet will manage the co-branded website, customer support, marketing, distribution and sale of Skype's premium services. PacNet has direct presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, India, Thailand and Malaysia.

http://www.pacnet.com

http://www.skype.com