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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