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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:54:14PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > How can they be worth $8 million if there's no revenue stream? (Ok, > there is in the form of Skype-Out, etc. but is that covering their > costs?) > PS Billion > Of have I missed something obvious... > In the FT today I have seen two theories - MSFT placing advertising in the video element of Skype and making money - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3/e4866140-7bef-11e0-9b16-00144feabdc0.html Perhaps Microsoft was thinking only about protecting the current franchise. If Google or Facebook got hold of Skype, they would be closer to building a suite of products that could shake users loose from Office/Windows. To prevent that, Microsoft was prepared to pay an amount that, on traditional metrics, looks insane. Oddly enough Skype was originally sold to Ebay who (presumably) could not make enough money at it and sold it to some private capital people at $5bn who then sold it to MSFT. -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 or 0x3184D537 Smime Fingerprint 98:24:AE:F7:D1:D6:E5:A0:F0:55:2F:40:42:5F:46:24:F9:52:f4:30 Wed May 11 19:23:22 BST 2011
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