Microsoft to announce $8.5 billion Skype acquisition tomorrow morning
Interesting… got a text about this an hour ago which sucked me into the seductive stream of tech tweets. Which begs the question: why the hell am I working at midnight on a tuesday?
At a value close to $8 billion, the Skype deal would rank as the biggest acquisition in the 36-year history of Microsoft, a company that traditionally has shied away from large deals. In 2007, Microsoft paid approximately $6 billion to acquire online advertising firm aQuantive Inc. Many current and former Microsoft executives believe Microsoft significantly overpaid for that deal. But they are also relieved that Microsoft gave up on an unsolicited $48 billion offer for Yahoo Inc. nearly three years ago. Yahoo is valued at half that sum today.
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We can kiss our international free-of-charge talks goodbye. And welcome another family of errors, bugs etc…
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8 billion dollars? isn’t that a little risky? considering how small the life cycles of these kinds of things are… i...
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brb, deleting skype.
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Thing-we-saw-coming-of-the-day..
