How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-Killer Freeroll

by hanszeir on 5/13/2011, 4:36 PM with 9 comments
  • by ioa44 on 5/13/2011, 7:06 PM

    "Xbox + Kinect + Skype + headset + two sets of friends = social game platform at scale day one." Game changer.

  • by surfingdino on 5/13/2011, 9:10 PM

    But MSFT still has a 1.6% stake in Facebook, don't they? OK, so they may want to write it off should the Skype gamble pay off. I still have a feeling they will totally mess it up, though.

  • by rrhoover on 5/13/2011, 6:53 PM

    Wow! I didn't realize Skype had over 600 million users.

  • by Louis-Eric on 5/14/2011, 2:47 AM

    It makes sense to draw the social graph from actual connections rather than deduce it from people's declarations. Smart.

  • by bradpineau on 5/13/2011, 6:07 PM

    Totally agree!

  • by surfingdino on 5/13/2011, 9:05 PM

    What's a 'no-shop'?