Hey I got a cool eight billion just lying aroundPosted by: EgbertFly on May 23, 2011 Tagged in: Untagged
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In a previous post from a couple of years ago, I asked the question, how much is a billion. In a recent report I read that Microsoft is looking to purchase Skype, for eight and a half billion dollars. That is quite a lot of money for a company that essentially is not a big money earner, if at all. Google has Talk, which can be used when Skype doesn’t work. Microsoft already has Messenger, which also does the same thing, but somehow is not quite as friendly. Microsoft also has Lync for its corporate environment, which does the same type of thing, so why? Google was already thinking of buying Skype, so perhaps that is the reason that that Microsoft has found a spare eight and a half billion dollars. If my memory serves me correctly, Yahoo was purchased by Microsoft because Google was thinking of buying it. Sounds like a trend is growing here. Messenger is a fair product. One would assume that for a substantially smaller amount of money, it could be bought up to the standard for the likes of Skype or Google Talk. Microsoft has this habit of being the best fitter and turner business in the world. They buy something that doesn’t quite fit into their business model and then in an attempt to make it fit, they turn it into something useless. Skype does not earn money, at least not enough of it to be a serious profit centre. So what happens when someone in accounting looks at Skype and decides to make it go away? Will it be sold again, or will it simply end?
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