Microsoft to Buy Internet Phone Company Skype

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Microsoft says it will buy the Internet phone company Skype for $8.5 billion in cash.

Buying Skype is giving Microsoft Corp. a potentially valuable communications tool as it tries to make a bigger splash on the Internet and become a bigger force in the increasingly important smartphone market.

Skype boasts about 663 million users worldwide who make voice and video calls over the Internet.

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13 responses to “Microsoft to Buy Internet Phone Company Skype”

  1. eblashko Avatar
    eblashko

    Quite a big deal

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    Skype is just another wonderful Israel invention that the world wouldn’t have if the Israeli boycotters had their way.

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    islam was
    another culture that developed a school system in the modern sense of
    the word. Emphasis was put on knowledge, which required a systematic way
    of teaching and spreading knowledge, and purpose-built structures.

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      Most of which ‘purpose-built’ structure had it’s purposes politicized and seems to have devolved into the brain-washing by cults such like the Taliban, rather than growing with open liberal thinking and real knowledge, which unfortunately stopped human societal evolution for far too long in some areas of the planet.

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