Microsoft buys Skype for 8.5 billion

[terry78]

http://thefastertimes.com/tech/2011/05/10/microsoft-buys-skype-for-8-5-billion-dollars-not-a-typo/

MS owns your ass, as if you didn't already know.

 

[enterthemadness]

http://thefastertimes.com/tech/2011/05/10/microsoft-buys-skype-for-8-5-billion-dollars-not-a-typo/

MS owns your ass, as if you didn't already know.

Good for the creators of Skype, bad for everybody else.

This also explains a twitter thing I saw earlier saying Skype to be called 'Widows Live Hotmail MSN Video Chat Bing'

 

[Mister J]

8.5 Billion? What the hell?! I need to find a breakdown of the deal structure. There has to be some sort of inventive financing or something going on. Seems like an extreme premium.

 

[Alex The Great]

Whoa, that's a lot of money

 

[Scourge2099]

Between Microsoft , Google and Facebook buying everything up , the internet's days of being awesome is almost over.

 

[chaseter]

The government will break up those companies soon enough.

 

[Duke]

this is not good at all.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

Watson is growing in power.First he was demonstrated on Jeopardy and now he wants to take over the world.

 

[Sawyer]

Between Microsoft , Google and Facebook buying everything up , the internet's days of being awesome is almost over.

That day came and passed a long time ago.

 

[Dark Phantom]

no it can still be awesome

 

[Wolfwood]

That day came and passed a long time ago.

As long as we have we'll be okay. Unless Microsoft buys that too, then we're ****ed.

 

[Duke]

I hope Microsoft never decides to buy the Hype, because then we'd all be ****ed!!

 

[Immortalfire]

So now Skype will constantly crash and burn?

 

[Manic]

Great, now Skype can merge with all of my other Microsoft accounts, like...



...




huh.

 

[Scourge2099]

That day came and passed a long time ago.

We still have free porn. The day porn is no longer free is a day I don't wanna imagine.

 

[Warhammer]

...wait, wait, wait...8.5 BILLION?

 

[Kane52630]

...wait, wait, wait...8.5 BILLION?

Yes.