It makes strategic sense that Microsoft happily bought Skype for the rather inflated price of US $8.5 billion, says Robert X Cringely. Microsoft needed a new market — telecommunications, but more importantly it needed to stop Google from buying Skype.
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Hold the line, Microsoft to buy Skype
Microsoft is apparently in talks to buy Skype — the internet phone service company — for a reported US $8 billion, making it Microsoft’s most expensive buyout ever.
Introducing the Skypebook
The long prophesized merging of Skype and Facebook has come to fruition in Skype 5.0, which features sleek integration of Facebook’s news and friends feeds, says Jennifer Grove
Will Facebook and Skype join forces?
Internet giants Facebook and Skype are reportedly close to announcing a partnership that will see the social networking giant integrate voice chat technology. Each company has a rather large membership tally: around half a billion users apiece.
If Don Draper was selling Twitter
A clever mock-up of vintage style advertisements spruiking new media. How would have Facebook been sold in the 1960s? “For leisure or labour…” says the tagline.
Why the future isn’t as exciting as we thought
Video phones are the one gadget The Future actually promised and delivered, but realistically the last thing anyone wants to do when having a phone conversation is look at someone, says Joel Stein.
Ping! sends a shake-up message to nervous telcos
An application released last week for Apple’s iPhone, which gives users the ability to circumvent the carriers to send SMSs, will be making our large phone companies a little bit nervous,
Skype and eBay break up
It seemed like such a promising marriage four years ago when eBay bought out VoIP telco Skype, but it has all ended in tears, with the online auction site announcing it will soon be offloading the company at a loss. So what went wrong for the formerly happy couple?
