No, T-Mobile is still the only major carrier in the U.S. without the iPhone. But it is finding ways of targeting those high-spending, loyal iPhone users out there anyway: it has launched some new functionality for its Bobsled internet calling service that means that service now works via Apple’s wireless…

It looks like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be jumping its last major regulatory hurdle in its bid to buy Skype: it is expected to get clearance from the European Union’s competition commission, paving the way for the transaction to close by the end of this year. The deal was first…

While regulators have yet to give Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) the final approval to buy Skype, the Internet communications company is making some acquisitions of its own. Today, it announced that it will be acquiring GroupMe, a group messaging company, for an undisclosed sum a price reported to be between $50…

Wireless carriers are the punching bags of the mobile industry, notorious for holding back innovative services they don’t control to preserve existing profits. Oftentimes they’ve earned that enmity, but making the leap from a voice-oriented world organized around a ten-digit number to a data-oriented world organized around bits and identity…

Such is life in the clouds: the occasional thunderstorms illustrate how tenuous it all can be. The silver lining for Skype Thursday is that people have come to rely on its services so much that they freak out when it goes down.

Why is Microsoft paying $8.5 billion for Skype when less than two years ago the VOIP service was valued at under $2 billion? Asked about that premium during a call with analysts this afternoon, Microsoft CFO Peter Klein said the company arrived at the valuation after determining both the “intrinsic…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and (a very quiet) soon-to-be Microsoft Skype division president Tony Bates went on CNBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) this morning to defend the rationale of the $8.5 billion acquisition. The bottom line: Microsoft believes its many products—from Hotmail to Xbox—can all benefit from tie-ins to the…

Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), today said his company first decided to buy Skype when the two were in discussions on an advertising deal (advertising is one way Skype has hoped to make more money off those millions of people who steadfastly refuse to take up its…

Making its biggest bet yet on something it didn’t build, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) confirmed today that it is paying $8.5 billion in cash for Skype.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which has been quiet on the deal front for several years now, is reportedly set to change that in a big way, picking up Skype for $7 billion-plus. The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) cites sources who say a deal could be announced as early as Tuesday;…

Ebay may have decided that Skype was not an asset worth keeping—selling, in 2009, two-thirds of the company it paid more than $3 billion to acquire in 2005. But apparently some other big Internet hitters—namely Facebook and Google (NSDQ: GOOG)—think otherwise.

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s come just in time, after one of the worst weeks in Skype’s history: the P2P telephony giant’s newest iOS app now lets Skype users on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices make video calls to other Skype users for free.

The internet telephony service Skype got a good deal out of the net neutrality vote earlier this week, with the FCC deciding that Skype and other voice services like it could not be banned or throttled on broadband networks. But services in the past 24 hours seem to show that…

Skype is taking a step toward popularising the service - it’s releasing a version 5.0 Windows client that includes Facebook integration, meaning… —Skype users can call out to phone numbers listed in friends’ Facebook profiles.

Skype’s top engineering executive has left the company for “personal reasons,” the NYT says. Skype had hired Madhu Yarlagadda away from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) in early July to oversee the company’s engineering and development initiatives as chief development officer, succeeding CTO Dan Berg.

“I don’t understand why they need to IPO,” Mike Chalfen, a partner with Advent Venture Partners, tells paidContent:UK, after Skype filed for a $100 million public flotation... “The company isn’t yet as profitable as it will be in a couple of years. If it was more fully maturing into its…

Skype’s $100 million IPO filing shows a company with big ambitions to monetize the online telecoms space, but with relatively few customers so far and plenty of risks in sight… The document reveals how the company’s current owners had to raise $825 million in debt to buy the company from…

In a couple of years, the time parked in eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) may be a distant memory for a publicly traded Skype. The VoIP firm has filed for an IPO with the SEC, looking to raise $100 million in what could become one of the world’s biggest online telcos.

Fring is no longer providing support for Skype, a week after the mobile app expanded its features to include two-way video calling for the iPhone. Fring previously had allowed its users to make calls and IMs across Skype, in addition to others like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Talk and ICQ. In…