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Microsoft owns Skype?

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Post by AlexO » February 23rd, 2018, 10:21 am

WTF I did not know this. I logged in today, Skype asked me to change my password blah blah.. and the email said it was form Microspft.

Anyone else had this password change happen to them today?
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Post by TheButcher » February 23rd, 2018, 10:24 am

Yes sir, MS bought Skype back in 2011 for something like $8.5 Billion.
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Post by Jeffrey » February 23rd, 2018, 7:26 pm

They attempted of selling it. But there were no takers.
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Post by bill » February 24th, 2018, 12:28 am

Microsoft has made nine acquisitions worth over one billion dollars:

Skype (2011),

aQuantive (2007),

Fast Search & Transfer (2008),

Navision (2002),

Visio Corporation (2000),

Yammer (2012),

Nokia (2013),

Mojang (2014) and

LinkedIn (2016).
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Post by jag » February 24th, 2018, 8:53 am

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple all spent good money to buy up other tech sites.
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Post by TheButcher » March 6th, 2018, 12:24 pm

Jag wrote: ↑
February 24th, 2018, 8:53 am
 Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple all spent good money to buy up other tech sites.
It just makes good business sense to invest the cash into other businesses.
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