Microsoft adds Facebook video calling to Skype for Windows

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ummary: Skype not only powers Facebook’s video calling feature, but it now offers Facebook-to-Facebook calling directly from its Windows clients. The Mac update is coming soon.

01/18/2012 — Filed under: Internet
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Windows Phone Tango to come with Skype, Google+ and C++ support

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We are all eagerly awaiting Microsoft’s next big roll out, Windows Phone Tango and while it may not be a groundbreaking update, the reason we are excited is due to the fact that Tango won’t need the high-end specifications that current WP7 phones need and thus, will be a lot cheaper. Hopefully, the user experience doesn’t take a backseat here, as currently that’s one of the few appealing traits of this platform.
If only Zune integartion was not so uptight

01/12/2012 — Filed under: Mobile
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Skype announces major update to Android app

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Skype has just announced a major update to its Android application, version 2.6. This update brings with it photo and video sharing over 3G or WiFi, and apparently improves both

12/3/2011 — Filed under: Internet
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Microsoft could charge for Skype video archiving and authenticationussions.

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Microsoft may charge business users for Skype video archiving and authentication, but keep the base consumer video service free, according to one high-ranking company executive.

11/30/2011 — Filed under: Internet
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Skype-co-founder leads $5,5m funding round for Wrapp

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Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström has joined the board of Swedish social gifting service Wrapp after it raised $5,5 million in a funding round led by Zennström’s venture capital firm.

11/7/2011 — Filed under: Internet,Markets
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Microsoft Hopes Skype Will Continue Business Software’s Success

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Microsoft said Thursday that it is in the process of integrating Skype across many of its business and consumer communications platforms, even as those platforms helped drive record revenues.

09/24/2011 — Filed under: Internet
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Italian Software Maker Contests Microsoft’s Purchase of Skype

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Reviving arguments that have dogged Microsoft in Europe for nearly two decades, an Italian software maker is asking European officials to block Microsoft’s $8,5 billion purchase of Skype, the Internet phone service, unless it is removed from Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows Office platform.

09/12/2011 — Filed under: Internet
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Skype Launches Limited Platform for Third-Party Apps

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Skype has launched an App Directory for third-party applications integrated with Skype’s telephony service. It’s not much to look at now besides a handful of natural use cases. But as Skype’s footprint grows, the platform and the directory have real potential to grow with it.

08/13/2011 — Filed under: Internet,Software
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Skype 5,5 for Windows now available, complete with deeper Facebook integration

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The beta version has been available for over a month, but those that prefer to play things safe can now download the final version of Skype 5,5 for Windows (and Windows only, at the moment).

07/18/2011 — Filed under: Internet
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Microsoft’s Skype deal gets the go-ahead

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Microsoft’s bid for Skype has received the go-ahead from American anti-trust regulators, following an «early termination» of a review into the proposed sale. Under America’s Hart-Scott-Rodinho (HSR) Act, certain types of large mergers and acquisitions deals must be submitted for review by the government.

05/30/2011 — Filed under: Markets
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