Sarah E. Needleman
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1 month ago |
businessandamerica.com | Sarah E. Needleman
Skype, the Microsoft -owned service that popularized making calls over the internet, is hanging up for good. In May, Microsoft will shut down Skype, which it bought in 2011 for $8.5 billion in what at the time was the biggest acquisition in the tech titan’s history. It is encouraging Skype users to migrate to its free Teams app, it said Friday. Source link
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msn.com | Sarah E. Needleman
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cn.wsj.com | Sarah E. Needleman
在收购Skype这款传统视频会议平台14年后，微软(Microsoft)将于5月份关停Skype，微软告知用户迁移到Microsoft Teams。微软在2011年以85亿美元收购这家语音和视频通话公司，当时是微软历史上最大的一笔收购交易，并被视为旨在当时落后于竞争对手苹果公司(Apple)和谷歌(Google)的移动电话市场上获得更多份额。该交易宣布时，Skype的用户超过1.7亿。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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wsj.com | Sarah E. Needleman
Feb. 28, 2025 11:52 am ETCopyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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wsj.com | Sarah E. Needleman
The demise of Skype isn’t likely to have a big impact, even though in its heyday it was so widely known that its name became a verb, as in “Skype me.” Once a novel technology with millions of users around the globe, Skype has long lost its luster as competing options including Teams, as well as Zoom, Google Meet and others gained ground.
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Skype, the Microsoft-owned service that popularized making calls over the internet, is hanging up for good https://t.co/janxqV9aul via @WSJ $MSFT RIP SKYPE
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