Category Archives: Skype

GroupMe

By Sarah Hall | Published: March 12, 2012

Just before Microsoft acquired Skype last year as reported in this blog, Skype acquired a company called GroupMe which was to remain stand alone. GroupMe was created in 2010 at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon as a free group messaging service in line with Skype’s mission statement to ’be the fabric of real-time communication on the web’ and [...]

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Microsoft’s Closer to Purchasing Skype

By Sarah Hall | Published: October 9, 2011

Microsoft is one step closer to initiating it’s largest take over with the European Commission approving the software giant’s acquisition of Skype. The commission did not see a marked overlap in areas of competition within consumer communications, stating that they ‘only overlapped in video communications’. Microsoft is set to pay nearly three times’ Skype’s market value [...]

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