Archive for the 'Skype News' Category

 Internet Financial News
Business Week and the Wall Street Journal are all over eBays latest word on Skype”and that looks to be Whoops. After paying $1.3 billion cash…
…and $1.3 billion stock two years ago, eBay is regretting its decision and partnering with Skype rival Jajah.
eBay reports that theyll be taking a 3rd quarter impairment charge of [...]

Got VOIP?

I do, and I’ve come to believe that a fool and his land line are soon parted. I’m using Computerworld’s voice over IP system, but until some sticky issues get resolved I’m hanging onto my land line. Skype is fun. So far, corporate VOIP is not.
Some people think that I’m an expert in [...]

Blip.tv, which produces and distributes original programming online, has announced the closing of its series B financing. In addition, the digital video upstart has announced their first venture capital investors. Most notably, Ambient Sound Investments, the venture capital fund run by the founders of Skype, an online peer-to-peer telephony network, has signed on as investors [...]

Are cellphone companies using their sway over handset makers to unfairly limit consumers’ choices? Skype, a pioneer in PC-to-PC calling, thinks so, and it wants the Federal Communications Commission to do something about it.
In a blistering filing with the FCC, Skype basically accused Verizon Wireless and other big carriers of holding their customers hostage because [...]

Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), established by the four co-founding engineers of internet telephony software company Skype, will acquire a stake as part of a Series A funding round in 3D social networking company Frenzoo, to bring to market an exciting new online experience across the region.
Frenzoo enables teenagers and young adults to connect with their [...]

Skype announced today that they have made it even easier for small businesses to jump on the Skype bandwagon, by introducing their Small Business Pack.
“The Pack includes a Skype for Business download, 10 five month subscriptions to Skype Pro™ (Skype’s new internet communications package) worth €100 and €50 of Skype credit for making [...]

Even if your cell plan allows free domestic roaming, you’re probably paying through the nose when you’re phoning home from foreign destinations. And let’s face it: E-mail isn’t quite the same — especially if you’re keeping pace with a student spending a semester abroad.
A free alternative: install Skype on your portable computer.
Here’s what you need [...]

The eBay-owned web communications company Skype is introducing a new casual games portal - and is courting developers to provide content.Skype’s Game Channel joins its voice over IP service and follows in the footsteps of casual-orientated pack-in games like those found with Microsoft Messenger.
However Skype and the operator/creator of its games offer, Easybits, have unveiled [...]

Skype on Wednesday announced the final release of Skype 2.6 for Mac. The VOIP communication software was previously available to Mac users as a public beta. It’s free to download and use for Skype-to-Skype communication; the company also sells plans that enable you to send and receive calls from landlines and cell phones.
Skype 2.6 for [...]

There’s a new tech wave washing up at Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT). The world’s largest retailer hooked up with eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) this morning to introduce Skype-friendly headsets, webcams, and handsets at 1,800 of its stores. Wal-Mart will also begin selling the country’s first prepaid Skype phone cards.
This isn’t necessarily a major catch for Wal-Mart. RadioShack [...]