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Confirming rumors that started hitting the Internet last Sunday,
Microsoft has now officially announced its plans to acquire Skype, the
Internet phone software company. This morning's press release announced
that the price that Microsoft is paying for Skype will indeed be $8.5
billion in cash, as previously revealed on Monday night by the
AllThingsDigital web site. According to the press release, this
major move by Microsoft "will increase the accessibility of real-time
video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and
enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue
opportunities." The deal will also "extend Skype’s world-class brand
and the reach of its networked platform, while enhancing Microsoft’s
existing portfolio of real-time communications products and services."
The deal is still subject to government regulatory approvals but
Microsoft hopes to close the deal sometime in 2011. Microsoft
plans to use Skype, which
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