Earlier this morning, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis settled their lawsuits with eBay and a syndicate of investors in return for a 14 percent stake in the company they founded. The lawsuits were complicating the spin-off of Skype from eBay because the Skype founders still controlled the service's underlying peer-to-peer technology. In an interview with me this morning, Marc Andreessen, one of the investors through his new fund Andreessen Horowitz, told me, "The deal was never held up.