Facebook Acquisition of Skype?
May 5th, 2011 | By wownesia | Category: News
Social networking number one Facebook, perform the steps necessary to develop its business.
As quoted from the site Mashable, was widely circulated news about MarkZuckerberg’s company plans to acquire or make business cooperation with leading VoIP provider, Skype.
The news comes from two reliable sources. One of them says that Facebook plans to buy Skype with a price range between U.S. $ 3 billion – U.S. $ 4 billion.
Skype IPO is postponed until the middle of this year, reportedly will only be able to raise fresh funds of ranged U.S. $ 1 billion .
Meanwhile, Reuters sources said the talks between the two leads to the formation of joint ventures, rather than acquisitions.
However, on the other hand, the enemy up, Google, also is conducting initial assessment with Skype, to make joint venture agreements.
Skype and Facebook, as long as this is not a foreign company with each other. October last year, Skype released version 5.0 software for Windows, which also include the tab up so that users can chat and make calls to friends who are on your friends list on Facebook, via Skype. And this activity will also be recorded automatically, on the newsfeed or news story on Facebook.
source:vivanews.com
