eBay has been forced to reassess the value of Skype -- a company it acquired for US$2.6 billion -- not to mention its overall strategy for making money with VoIP.
eBay's Skype unit said on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire a San Francisco-based speech-processing start-up for roughly US$27 million in stock.
eBay released a statement on Wednesday afternoon confirming that, as speculated, it has acquired Web site discovery service StumbleUpon. The price, according to eBay, is approximately US$75 million.
Skype has teamed up with Logitech to announce enhancements to the quality of video calls, but only for users of certain new Webcam products from Logitech.
Skype is renewing its push to attract business users by expanding the ways in which its free Internet telephony software can be integrated with other enterprise applications.
Skype sees the mobile market as the next frontier for its service, but economic realities in the voice market -- coupled with mobile operators who feel threatened by Skype -- could put the kibosh on large-scale adoption for some time to come.
Cybercriminals are spreading a malicious Trojan horse under the guise of an update to Skype, e-mail security firm MessageLabs said on Monday.
Voice over IP has reached some major milestones in 2008 in both the enterprise and consumer ends of the market but how long can traditional telcos continue to fight against this disruptive technology?
Andrew Lippman thinks communities will be key to the future of communications tech.
Software-based phones are coming to the fore as big changes come to the way people make calls.
VoIP company takes page from parent eBay, offering a business-rating directory and a service linking advice givers and seekers.
Chinese engineers have allegedly cracked Skype's Internet telephony protocol, according to a Thursday blog posting.
Though Skype 2 suffers from middling voice quality when calling landline phones, it's still one of the best free VoIP services around, and its new Skype Video feature makes it even better.
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