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Mobile Lowdown 6-29-11: Amazon, Rovio boost WP7; Square; Google+ Mobile
By Ingrid Lunden
Jun. 29, 2011, 3:43pm
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: – Windows Phone 7: Couple of good-news boosts for the Windows Phone 7 apps platform. A… Read More »
Wireless carriers are the punching bags of the mobile industry, notorious for holding back innovative services they don’t control to preserv… Read More »
Such is life in the clouds: the occasional thunderstorms illustrate how tenuous it all can be. The silver lining for Skype Thursday is that… Read More »
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 tha… Read More »
Video: Microsoft’s Ballmer Explains His Purchase Of Skype
By Joseph Tartakoff
May. 10, 2011, 10:30pm
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and (a very quiet) soon-to-be Microsoft Skype division president Tony Bates went on CNBC (NSDQ: CMC… Read More »
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… Read More »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-09-11: Skype; Rovio IPO; Apple Nuance; US Cellular 4G
By Ingrid Lunden
May. 9, 2011, 3:01pm
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more Skype partnering and merger speculation, this time with Microsoft; (NSDQ: MSFT) An… Read More »
Skype’s The Limit: Facebook, Google Eye Tie-Up With Internet Calling Giant
By Ingrid Lunden
May. 5, 2011, 4:53pm
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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… Read More »
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By Ingrid Lunden
Apr. 26, 2011, 2:48am
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Looks like Bobsled, T-Mobile’s new voice service on the Facebook platform, has hit a hitch, only one week into its life: according to Bobsle… Read More »
– Sprint/Clearwire: The tumultuous times at Clearwire continue. Sprint (NYSE: S) today said that it would not be buying debt from Clearwire… Read More »
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… Read More »
By Joseph Tartakoff
Oct. 4, 2010, 10:41pm
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Skype, which filed for an IPO in August, is now bringing in an outsider as CEO. The company has hired Tony Bates, an SVP at Cisco (NSDQ: CSC… Read More »
By Joseph Tartakoff
Aug. 19, 2010, 1:06am
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Skype’s top engineering executive has left the company for “personal reasons,” the NYT says. Skype had hired Madhu Yarlagadda away from Yaho… Read More »
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