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Facebook’s highly anticipated ‘announcement’ has now been made and as per the speculations, this event was indeed centered around the social network’s giant’s efforts to integrate Skype deeper into its activates. Facebook has now announced the launch of video chat feature in Facebook that has been made possible in collaboration with VoIP [...]

The acquisition of Skype by the Internet behemoth, Microsoft Corporation was being hailed as a new venture in to yet unknown features for the 200+ million users of the VoIP king. However, in yet another major blow to user privacy, Microsoft has now agreed to implement a new security measure in Skype that will allow intelligence and investigation agencies [...]

The most cherished and widely used social networking service on the web, Facebook,has been sending you invites to a handful of journalists for a special event that is scheduled to be held next week. This entire week, the Internet was buzzing about the ‘amazing’ announcement that was to come from Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg at the event. Now, [...]

  Some investors, facing the new scenario set with the purchase of Skype by Microsoft, started making their bets. The idea is to support and strengthen an online platform to communicate by voice and video capable, at least in theory, compete with Skype. For this, Fring just pick a nice amount of investments. The challenge facing a Skype maintained [...]

The King of the Internet, Google Inc. might have lost one round of hoping to snag in Skype, since now it has become a part of Microsoft, but in no manner is the search behemoth going to let it bother even a bit.  At highly coveted developer conference, Google I/O 2011, one of the most cherished and widely revered Internet firm finally unveiled and [...]

We haven’t even reached the better half of 2011 and the tech world has already been jostled with an incredible news that of the VoIP king, Skype been brought by one of the oldest entities on the web, Microsoft Corporation for a staggering $8.5 billion. The voice-over-Internet company acquisition deal has been struck an investor group led by Silver [...]

Believe it or not, one of the most revered VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service on the web, Skype, just came under the graces of two of the biggest names on the online realm, the search giant, Google Inc. and the social networking behemoth, Facebook, where in both the companies are now vying to get into a strategic deal with the king of VoIP, [...]

Skype is one of the most used internet telephonic services in the world. Skype’s popularity has caused it to tie up with various companies so that it is available on their devices by default. If you have a Sony BRAVIA TV or a VIZIO Via TV, then you would soon be able to use Skype on them without a hitch. All that you would need is a webcam and [...]

Skype yesterday announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services that enable users to capture, preserve and instantly share great moments on video anywhere. Qik has 60 employees and is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has an office in Moscow, Russia. The transaction should [...]

Skype updated its iPhone app with the inclusion of a feature to make video calls through 3G mobile networks. The updated app is available for download via the App Store, the company said today. The app works on the iPhone, iPad Touch and iPod, and can make or receive video calls from Skype to Skype on 3G networks and Wi-Fi For best quality, the company [...]