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Facebook considering $3-4Bn buyout of Skype

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Re: Facebook considering $3-4Bn buyout of Skype

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skype is only a good option if they want users. because the only appeal of skype is the userbase. really. if facebook has the penetration everyone believes they have, skype would be irrelevant. buy any other media streaming company with an actual decent codec and the rest is commodity.

Assuming you are right about the tech (I have no idea), it's not necessarily a simple 'user acquisition.' I have a facebook account that I rarely use and a skype account that's always on. If logged in to skype meant logged in to facebook I would become a very active facebook user. I can't gauge the value of that to facebook because it's still not entirely clear how they make money (at least not the kind of money inve…

that was mostly my point too.

I was mostly questioning how much users (or actual real users that actually uses the site) there are in reality. not in the make believe news lives in.

Re: Facebook considering $3-4Bn buyout of Skype

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

if FB buys skype I'm out

fear of centralized access to personal information? is there a _secure_ easy voip solution ?

not so much fear...more of a well placed reluctance to trust a company which has no regard for privacy

Re: Facebook considering $3-4Bn buyout of Skype

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Upcoming mashable/techcrunch/other-tech-gossip-site headlines to be linked at HN: * Why Facebook will buy Skype * This is not a bubble * Facebook buying Skype is the dumbest thing ever * Skype's two hundred competitors that Google will buy * That settles it, we're in a bubble * Why Google/Microsoft/Yahoo/Apple should buy Skype * How I flipped my VOIP company for $4 billion in funny-money

You're doing their work for them!

Re: Facebook considering $3-4Bn buyout of Skype

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Upcoming mashable/techcrunch/other-tech-gossip-site headlines to be linked at HN: * Why Facebook will buy Skype * This is not a bubble * Facebook buying Skype is the dumbest thing ever * Skype's two hundred competitors that Google will buy * That settles it, we're in a bubble * Why Google/Microsoft/Yahoo/Apple should buy Skype * How I flipped my VOIP company for $4 billion in funny-money

You're doing their work for them!

They've merely rightsized their organisation to wikify their newsroom with crowd-sourced insight. It's totally thinking outside the paradigm, a true hack on pivoting.
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