October « 2011 « Skype Journal

Skype: New owners, new customers, new channels

Phil Wolff 14 October 2011 11:44 am

Skype’s stock changes hands. Sometime soon employees may get new badges. Payroll processing and PR firms may change. But, for the most part, Skype’s employees will stay the course, building more Skype in more places.

Skype division President Tony Bates must make good on his promise of synergy to Ballmer.

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Skype Journal – October 2011 News Roundup

Phil Wolff 7 October 2011 11:23 am

Microsoft finished buying Skype. Ballmer’s PR, Bates’ PR. Courtney, York, Slashdot opine. Most folks thought this happened last April. I thought the EU should have attached strings to the deal, but they didn’t.

Gotta wonder if Microsoft would still have bought Skype if they had to pay US taxes on the deal.

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MicroSkype is too big to slip under EU regulatory radar

Phil Wolff 5 October 2011 1:24 pm

UPDATE: WHOOPS! Financial Times says EU Commission will approve deal, no strings. I guess it still managed to slip through. “Competition reviews are still under way in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Taiwan.”

Less than 100 hours from Europe ruling on the Microsoft-Skype purchase, Skype’s Jean-Jacques Sahel shared a Plum report on the economic [...]