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It’s summertime, which means it’s time to hit the boarding gates of the nearest terminal and get out of town. And if you’re going somewhere exotic that requires you to dig your passport out (hey, Mexico still counts), you may be wondering what life is like when the …
The entertainment industry’s been pretty lethargic about bringing big-screen, high-definition video calling to living rooms en masse. It’s been left to video game hardware manufacturers via set-top boxes to do the job, be they video chats with up to six people using Sony’s PlayStation 3, or Video Kinect using Microsoft’s motion-sensing …
What goes down must eventually come back up. That would’ve been Newton’s fourth law had he lived another 284 years and been using Skype this morning.
“Skype broken for everyone?” wrote Xona Games’ game producer Matthew Doucette on Twitter this morning. I glanced up at my Mac’s menu bar. Sure enough, the dreaded X-Cloud (or …
If you’re happy that Skype was purchased by Microsoft last week, Bill Gates is waiting to take all your thanks whenever you’re ready. Calling the multibillion dollar purchase “a great, great deal for Skype [and] a great deal for Microsoft,” Gates told the BBC that
Just two days after Microsoft officially announced it would purchase Skype, AOL went public with its new, free video chat service. It’s funny (and perhaps not so coincidental) how things happen, right?
TechCrunch leaked the service last week, which was sent only to employees of AOL, but now its beta round is open to all.
AOL’s …
The big news this week: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion. That’s a decent chunk of change and it’s got some Microsoft investors worried. So how will the Redmond giant puts its most expensive purchase ever to good use? Check out the above video for some likely scenarios.
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Microsoft just bought Skype for $8.5 billion. Not to get too personal, but that’s many, many billions more than I make in a year. But unlike buying a human writing machine like yours truly at an affordable price, Microsoft is paying $8.5 billion for something called Skype. Here’s what it’s getting.
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Microsoft has officially announced its purchase of VoIP provider Skype for a whopping $8.5 billion. As we reported late last night, it’s Microsoft’s most expensive acquisition to date.
(Read More: A Brief History of Skype)
This is a big, big gamble for Microsoft, but one that could ultimately pay off in several key areas. I’d …
Looks like the fight for Skype is over. Just last week, reports surfaced that both Google and Facebook were looking at joint deals with the VOIP company, but now Microsoft has apparently finalized a buyout – for $8.5 billion, according to AllThingsD.
Follow-up: Microsoft Makes Skype Purchase Official: What You Should Know
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Hi there! I’m the latest “wants-to-be-friends” friendly surfing Skype, and if you add me now, I promise I won’t exploit a security vulnerability that lets me take super-secret command of your Mac, or even—on a whim—expunge every last byte you hold precious! Actually you don’t need to add me at all–this next message should …
Reuters has reported that Facebook and Google want to get involved with Skype, after the company has delayed going public. The company is still expected to go public during the latter part of this year.
Both companies are looking to form individual joint ventures with Skype, according to two unnamed sources. Both talks are supposedly …
Heads up on a recently revealed vulnerability in the popular Skype app for Android. While the app itself hasn’t been exposing anyone’s personal information, various rogue Android apps could theoretically exploit a weakness in how Skype handles things like your username, phone number, e-mail address, chat logs and more.
Apparently the …
