Why It May Make Sense To Buy Skype Back
Considering that Skype is under attack from Facebook, the largest telcos and Google, how can it be good business to buy Skype? The key is whether it will be worth more than what investors paid for it.
Considering that Skype is under attack from Facebook, the largest telcos and Google, how can it be good business to buy Skype? The key is whether it will be worth more than what investors paid for it.
AllThingsD | Posted 11.06.2009 | Technology
Silicon Valley legend and now VC Marc Andreessen was making the interview rounds this morning, after the settlement between the litigation-addled co-f...
Michael Russnow | Posted 11.08.2009 | Technology
There ought to be a law preventing the computer hardware and software industry from shortchanging consumers, so that we get the full use of our equipment.
Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology
Have you ever thought about how far we've come in our ability to connect with others and how far we'll go? I've been thinking a lot about connectivity recently and have always found that looking back to where we came from can help us better understand where we are today and, more importantly, where we may be going in the future.
Juliet Linley | Posted 10.26.2009 | Technology
I bet you'd already discovered it. Well, I only got there now: using Skype as a babysitter. Or rather, using the grandparents - who live outside of It...
Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Technology
Of course, I've used the phone many times in my life. There were times I even liked it.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media
It's one thing to voluntarily relinquish all pretense to one's one privacy, but totally different to spill the most intimate details of the lives of others, particularly if they aren't around to defend themselves.
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media
Our obsession with deal leaks and scoops subsided along with the boom that fueled it, resulting in a column that trained its occasionally gimlet eye on everything from basic business reporting to Analystgate.
Zondra Hughes | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living
I really miss asking you about your day. And hearing how you planned to make our world just a little brighter. The Twitter updates just doesn't seem the same to me.
Eric Kuhn | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media
Over 1,000 people descended upon the annual Personal Democracy Forum earlier this week. Here are some of my notes -- taken on Twitter, of course -- from the two day conference.
tech.yahoo.com | RACHEL METZ | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business
EBay Inc. plans to spin off its Internet communications service Skype through an initial public offering. San Jose, Calif.-based eBay said Tuesday ...
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media
In Stealing MySpace, Julia Angwin combines juicy pulp with biz-dev context to turn this story of somewhat shaky and shady entrepreneur-businessman-techie-marketers into a page-turner.
Graham Hill | Posted 05.03.2009 | Green
Remind me why the world's leaders and must continually jet around the globe filling the upper atmosphere with CO2? Shouldn't we be saving the CO2 emissions for fun stuff?
New York Times | BRAD STONE | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO -- Skype, the Internet calling service that has more than 400 million users around the world, is aggressively moving onto mobile phones....
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 03.15.2009 | Living
Long distance relationships absolutely, positively do work and while I was starting mine, I happened upon a lot of happy couples who were making it work too.
Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living
You never know. Take care of the people around you. Listen to your friends and family. Just go to give. Be present. Really, be with people.
Eric Kuhn | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business
Google will be competing with Skype, the popular application which allows people to make free video and audio calls. But already, people are moving towards Gmail.
Megan Shank | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business
For many companies working with Chinese firms on online products and services the hidden cost inherent in sticky ethics often emerges snarling.
Michael Standaert | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
BEIJING: When in China, don't use Skype. Well, at least not the Chinese version called Tom-Skype, a joint venture between eBay (owner of Skype) and To...
AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Skype, the Internet calling subsidiary of eBay Inc., is introducing its first plan for unlimited calls to overseas phones on Monday. ...
Jacob Soboroff | Posted 04.09.2008 | Home
I video chatted yesterday with Princeton professor Edward Felten. After he was alerted to strange vote tallies by Sequoia voting machines on Super Tuesday, Sequoia wrote to tell Felton that if he investigated the malfunction, even at the request of county clerks, it may be grounds for a lawsuit against him.
Silicon Valley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
We realize this may sound like heresy, but we think it's time for eBay shareholders to consider nudging CEO Meg Whitman out the door. Meg is one of t...
Martin Varsavsky | Posted 11.07.2009 | Technology