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Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, in an all cash deal. The deal closed a few hours ago.. The Wall Street Journal confirmed the news after the announcement is likely to come out later today or tomorrow morning, according to several reports. Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft is said to be a big champion of the deal, the largest in the history of the company. Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates will host a press conference in a few hours.
SKYPE CEO Tony Bates
It won’t surprise me if Microsoft comes in for major heat on this decision to buy Skype — and the software company could always botch this purchase, as it often does when it buys a company. The Skype team is also full of hired guns who are likely to move on to the next opportunity rather than dealing with the famed Microsoft bureaucracy.
I also don’t believe that Facebook and Google were serious buyers. Google, with its Google Voice offering, doesn’t really need Skype. In essence, I feel that Microsoft was bidding against itself. Even then, I personally think this is a bet worth taking, especially for a company that has been left out in the cold for so long.
Why Did Skype Want To Sell?
Skype had filed for an IPO and was going to do about a billion dollars in revenues and was on its way to becoming profitable. So why sell? Silver Lake and eBay were both getting impatient and wanted to lock in their profits. Some sources also believe that Skype’s revenues had stalled.
The company had bet heavily on is video sharing service. The premium version of video calling and sharing was a way for Skype to increase its average revenue per user and move into the enterprise market. However, given Skype’s DNA is that of a consumer Internet company, the challenges are not a surprise.
founders of SKYPE
So Who Made What?
Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the co-founders with their 14-percent stake, take home about $1.19 billion. Damn, these guys know how to double dip!
On a news Messenger connect next will support OAuth 2.0, Microsoft has promised that the next iteration of Messenger connect will be designed to play nice with version 2.0 of OAuth by default.
As Dare Obasanjo said “The Windows Live team is pleased to announce the support for OAuth 2.0 in the next version of developer platform, Messenger Connect, which allows developers to build sites and applications that use data from the Windows Live network,”
“This development builds on an existing commitment to open web standards shown in the current version through our implementation of ActivityStrea.ms, OAuth Wrap, Portable Contacts, & OData.”
Messenger Connect already offers developers the possibility to leverage OAuth, and taken into consideration the company’s latest announcement, the same will be valid for the next version of the standard.
Just as it is the case with OpenID, OAuth is about providing access to third-parties to specific content. However, there’s a fundamental difference between the two, and it’s related to identity.
With OAuth, web developers can take advantage of an API which permits them to offer services to users, but without requiring them to share their credentials.
“OAuth provides a method for clients to access server resources on behalf of a resource owner (such as a different client or an end-user),” reads an excerpt of OAuth’s description.
“It also provides a process for end-users to authorize third-party access to their server resources without sharing their credentials (typically, a username and password pair), using user-agent redirections.”
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An innocent couple falls victim to airline shenanigans. So where do they go when they can't leave the gate area for... well, for who knows how long? "To The Cloud" to access the recorded TV shows on their home PC. Three hour delay? bring it.
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the final version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 has been released, known as Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 for Windows 7and Windows Vista.
it includes many features like MESH,MOVIEMAKER,MAIL,MESSENGER & more
To install Windows Live Essentials, your PC must be running Windows 7 or Windows Vista.
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