Microsoft stands in front of a big coup? The Windows group is willing to pay up to eight billion U.S. dollars for Skype, writes the "." Maybe the price is the result of a bidding contest: it was also last about reports. Microsoft could use the service, among other things for his current ailing smartphone business well.
It would be the biggest acquisition of the software giant. telephone calls, Skype users to each other for free over the Internet, with video images. Money earned the company so far mainly with cheap calls to conventional telephone network. The service has more than 550 million registered users.
Including debt must have Microsoft shell out even $ 8,500,000,000, according to the Wall Street Journal on. It would be a heavy charge in comparison to what has been paid for Skype. The online auction specialist eBay acquired Skype in 2005 for 2.6 billion dollars from the founders and separated in 2009 for $ 1.9 billion of them again.
It would be the biggest acquisition of the software giant. telephone calls, Skype users to each other for free over the Internet, with video images. Money earned the company so far mainly with cheap calls to conventional telephone network. The service has more than 550 million registered users.
Including debt must have Microsoft shell out even $ 8,500,000,000, according to the Wall Street Journal on. It would be a heavy charge in comparison to what has been paid for Skype. The online auction specialist eBay acquired Skype in 2005 for 2.6 billion dollars from the founders and separated in 2009 for $ 1.9 billion of them again.
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