Recently, it was reported that the founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, were attempting to buy the company back from eBay. They can forget about that, however. eBay announced on Tuesday it will spin off Skype into its own company, beginning with an IPO in the first half of 2010. They said, however, that: Specific timing of the IPO will be based on market conditions. Translation: still in a recession? No IPO. This news comes a day after eBay sold StumbleUpon back to its founders. In that case,