Microsoft buys Skype
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It has been announced that Microsoft Corporation had acquired Skype Communications today, May 10th 2011. Microsoft paid US$8.5 billion for Skype. The company has been incorporated as a division of Microsoft, called “Microsoft Skype Division”. Microsoft will acquire all of the company’s technologies, including Skype, with the purchase. Skype was…