It’s the biggest tech acquisition of the decade: former ‘evil corporation’ Microsoft is forking out close to $8 billion dollars in cash and debt payments for Skype.
The audiovisual software that Skype offers to millions of online users, will be a useful sidekick to Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
Integration of Skype has always been appealing to Google and of course Facebook, but the ‘dark empire’ that Bill Gates built managed to get there first.
The agreement is not finalized but it’s almost there, according to the Wall Street Journal coverage.
Considering how Microsoft saved $48 billion by not acquiring Yahoo a couple of years ago, the acquisition of Skype is peanuts 😀
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