Apps-Driven: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion
May 10, 2011
The news that Microsoft has closed a deal to buy Skype for $8.5 billion is all over cyberspace this morning. I found out about it here on gigaom.com. I like Om Malik’s analysis of why this deal is going down. Malik lists four reasons including Microsoft’s involvement in the collaboration market, a connection to phone carriers just as they’re building out LTE, and OS enhancement. But, as Malik writes:
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