Posts Tagged ‘skype’

eBay Saves Skype. Sells A Major Share Of The Internet Telephony Company

Friday, November 20, 2009 18:27 By Rajeev Saxena

After a long standing legal battle between the online auction giant, eBay and the internet telephony company, Skype has finally led to the salvation of Skype, as eBay has sold out a major share of telephony company, but still retains 30% stake in Skype. It is one of the most biggest and most successful web [...]

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The Skype Legal Battle Finally Ends .

Saturday, November 7, 2009 15:44 By Rajeev Saxena

The long standing legal stand off between Skype, a leading online communications network and one of the largest online shopping websites, eBay has finally come to end with the founders of Skype being awarded a 14% stake in the company along with two seats on Skype’s board of directors. eBay retains 30% rights on Skype. [...]

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Google and Virgin America join forces

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:35 By NARUTO

Between November 10 and January 15, 2010, users of the airline company Virgin America may use the free Wi-Fi offered during the flight, courtesy of Google in partnership with the company. The service will be operated by Gogo Inflight Internet.
According to the IT PRO site, the Internet connection will be offered free on flights between [...]

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Skype will launch another music streaming service

Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:01 By NARUTO

The founders of Kazaa, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, in partnership with Skype, should throw in the beginning of 2010 Rdio, service that will allow the sharing, storage and streaming of music online, based on a signatures system.
The music businesses move in a very slow way due to the subjects of copyrights. The first attempt [...]

AOL will either Acquire or Partner with Startups to Retrieve its Fortunes

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 17:54 By Robert

It’s bad news on AOL’s side as they have been gradually losing market share. To add to this rude fate, AOL has also fallen to the No.4 spot, which is a notch below Google’s Gmail service. According to the recent statistics revealed by ComScore show that AOL’s monthly visitors went down from 45.1 million in [...]

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Eee Reader: The Would-Be Cheapest eReader by Asus

Monday, September 7, 2009 18:45 By Robert

According to a report published in the London Times, Asus, a Taiwanese company is soon to come up with their eReader called the ‘Eee Reader”. If the report is true, then Asus will provide two versions of their e-book, of which one will be the cheapest in the market, while the other one will also [...]

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Skype to Be Sold by eBay

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 17:35 By Robert

For all you Skype fans, here is interesting news about the famous online telephony service. According to a team of reporters from the New York Times, Skype will soon be sold by eBay to a group of private investors. This includes Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s new Venture Capital group. With recession going on at high [...]

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Skype is about to be sold

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 15:52 By NARUTO

The auctions online site eBay prepares the sale of Skype, software that has about 400 million users in the world that allows the communication peer-to-peer in VoIP system (Voice over Internet Protocol), according to with information published today by The New Times.
According to the newspaper, that mentions two sources that know about that, the announcement [...]

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Russia Sees Skype And Other VoIP Services As A Threat To National Security

Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:23 By Rajeev Saxena

In a recent report, some of the biggest names in Russian business environment have expressed their concerns over the growing popularity of Skype and other internet telephony services, that are operating in Russia. According to the report, these services have been deemed as dangerous to the Russian economy and a threat to the nation’s security. [...]

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Joost cut staff and “abandoned” Internet users

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 23:30 By NARUTO

The portal Joost, pioneered in the showing of films and TV on the Internet, you will leave its system for the consumer and will cut jobs – in addition to losing its CEO, Mike Volpi.
The company said Tuesday that will change its strategy to serve as a platform for video to outlets media such [...]

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