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How's Skype Doing At MSFT? Usage Jumps 50%, Users Logged 115B Minutes ...
TechCrunch
In May of last year, Microsoft acquired everybody's favorite VoIP and chat
provider, Skype, for a cool $8.5 billion. It was a big move for Microsoft
and a landmark deal, which it officially closed in October. Yet, as
Frederic pointed out earlier this week, other than ...
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EBay's biggest bidding war? It's stock price
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Remember back in the late '90s, when the
concept of online auctions was new, people cleaned out their attics, put
their old junk online, let strangers get into bidding wars and a company
called eBay Inc. made a killing in ...
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Skype boosts Xbox division quarter by 20%
Ubergizmo
Skype According to Microsoft, which released its quarterly results earlier
today, the Xbox division has increased its revenues by 20%, but the credit
goes entirely to the Skype acquisition that became official in May (that's
a huge number for Skype). The Xbox ...
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Skype Rival Rebtel Launches Low-Cost Calling App for Millions of Windows ...
Wireless Developer Network (press release)
Rebtel, the world's largest mobile VoIP company after Skype, today
announced the launch of Rebtel for Windows Phone. The app is available for
free starting today on the Windows Marketplace and enables anyone to make
high quality cheap international ...
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What Does A Startup Actually Do With $105 Million?
San Francisco Chronicle
Atomico, a tech VC firm founded by Skype's Niklas Zennstrom, led a $105
million Series C round. We wondered why Fab needed that much money,
especially after it raised $40 million last fall and $8 million the summer
prior. "What gives?" we asked Fab's ...
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ClickDesk Integrates with MailChimp and Capsule CRM
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The integration with Capsule will enable businesses to receive live chats
and VoIP calls directly to their operator's IM (GTalk and Skype) – which
can be updated in Capsule CRM instantly. The live chat software integration
with MailChimp will allow operators ...
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Skype Bugs Threatening Users
Proformative
Because the world's three largest stock exchanges are located on different
continents, leaders of the American finance community often have to
communicate with executives in other parts of the nation and the world.
Many choose to rely on videoconferencing ...
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China's Tencent takes aim at Skype by bringing video calling to global
app ...
The Next Web
The additions bring the service into direct competition with messaging
heavyweights like Skype and FaceTime, while increasing the heat on its
mobile app rivals. Though it may not trouble the establishment in the West
for some time (if ever), it is already ...
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Rebtel Windows Phone app delivers low-cost international VoIP calling
Ubergizmo
Skype might have some competition on their hands with the introduction of
Rebtel, a Windows Phone app which is said to offer cheap and affordable
international VoIP calling. Of course, this is not Rebtel's maiden foray
into the VoIP arena, as they have ...
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Fab.com puts creative spin on online shopping
The News Journal
Jeff Jordan, a general partner at venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
(investors in Facebook and Skype), which raised $40 million in Fab's second
round of financing, calls the website the "fastest-growing e-commerce
business I've ever seen, going from ...
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Skype - Skype Garage blog - Hotfix for multiple Skype clients
The hotfix addresses an issue that occurs only when a user's Skype client
crashes during a Skype IM session, which may in some cases result in the
last IM ...
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Skype Issues Security Update for IM Bug - The Mac Security Blog
This issue occurs only when a user's Skype client crashes during a Skype IM
session, which may in some cases result in the last IM entered or sent
prior to the ...
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