Microsoft Skype?
I am scratching my head over this one. The NYTimes has a story this morning – “Microsoft in Talks to Acquire Skype for $8.5 Billion”. I am rather skeptical Skype is worth even half of that. I guess they don’t recall what happened to Ebay. From the article:
But the deal never lived up to its promise and eBay took a $1.4 billion write-down on its investment.
As it is, I don’t see how Skype has much of a business model beyond ads and some . The whole freemium model has always made me skeptical. Most people are going to go skype to skype which is free.
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