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Skype supported Arabic for years. This update lets you buy monthly subscriptions, buy Skype credit, and manage your Skype account. Here are some 2009q3 Skype facts and figures in Arabic – حقائق و معلومات عن سكايب. View more presentations from ahmedgabr. Hat tip to Skype’s Peter Parkes. tags: skype, [...] Scott Durschlag, Skype‘s COO, is leaving the company. Andy Abramson sees it as focus on mobile. Brad Stone sees it as restructuring for a focus on execution. I think three things are going on. First, consumer, mobile, and business are turning into divisions. Maybe platforms too at some future point. Increased self-sufficiency, [...] IPEVO updated their IPEVO S0-10W desk phone (pronounced "solo") with Skype inside. Wi-Fi adapter is now included (so you only need a power cable), the handset is now black like the rest of the unit instead of a contrasting white, and the price is down 36% to $109.99 from $169.99. More for less. We’ve [...] 1. Lose the eBay toolbar on Skype installation. Are users asking for it? 2. Was there ever "an eBay company" text on Skype.com? Find it. Kill it. 3. Turn in your eBay badges. 4. Move out of Skype Inn in San Jose. Leave the eBay campus behind. [...] Stream videos at Ustream Skype and live voice/video conversations haven’t been part of anything in this event, or the others like it. I blame Skype’s branding problem: Skype is antisocial software, not a place or way to discover future friends or colleagues. Skype is just for your closest circle, fewer than ten contacts. [...] Skype blog post ("Great news – we’ve closed the deal with the new investors.") and news release. Investor group pays Skype $1.9 billion in cash, $125 million note for 70% of Skype. eBay buys a $50 million note from them. Investors include Silver Lake, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Andreessen Horowitz Fund, and Joltid Limited. [...] Guest post by Howard Chang, AmperorDirect, Houston, Texas. I received the new Point 2 View (P2V) USB camera sample from IPEVO recently. The P2V is indeed designed with interesting concepts. The most eye-catching part is the white, elegant long-neck webcam stand. IPEVO, did you get the idea from Pixar’s iconic long-neck lamp? Its main [...] Does this need explanation? Really? NSFW: Skype, sex, and the sex industry. do people use it for other things too? tags: beyoncé, beyoncéknowles, mtv, videophone, skype, sex, position Call me at +1-510-316-9773, Skype me, follow @skypejournal and @Phil Wolff. Visit our Skype Journal private roundtable, one of the longest running [...] The Hulger P*PHONE is a gorgeous retro USB phone. It’s technically simple, just a microphone, a speaker and a cable. Canadian artist and designer Mike Pelletier "added a lever switch connected to a phidgets interface kit [seen below] so a max patch can detect when you pick up and hang up the phone and [...] Skype crossed a new high watermark today: 20 million people online at the same time. At moments, it passed 20.3 million. The last two million-person marks were 14 September and 5 October 2009. Skype added two million in the last 46 days. Dialtone is a measure of a few things: The value [...] Thanks to Lee Dryburgh and the Emerging Communications Conference 2009 Europe for the transcription Chair: I think the room is filled up enough. On that note, I would like to say again a very warm thank you to the headline sponsor, Skype. Again, it allows us to be together in a nice venue, with great [...] Skype has some brilliant capabilities. Advanced audio codecs, miraculous network survival, global distribution and payment partners, buying power that drives down per-minute costs. While supporting mobile phones, however, Skype built something that can change the way we look at the company. It’s called Skype Lite. Skype Lite is a service that lets you [...] The deal values Skype at $2.75 billion. Index is out, freeing up 2.4% of the equity. Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are in. They are contributing Joltid software for 10% of the company. They are paying $83 million for 4% of the company (a discount, since that would value the $2.08 billion). They are [...] UPDATE: MORE TO COME. The September 2009 deal valued Skype at $2.9 million. Post-deal, eBay would own 35%, Silverlake 50.6%, Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board 10.26%, Index Ventures Growth Fund 2.39%, Andreessen Horowitz 1.71%. The new deal, as described by Kara Swisher, shuffles the percentages. Skype’s founders get 10% of Skype in exchange [...] Business | Ebay | fun | janusfriis | news | niklaszennstrom | restructuring | Skype | spinoff | spinout | Strategy They came for fortune but were keelhauled and made to walk the plank. Now Skype’s founders are back in a small fast ship, ready to sink her if they don’t get paid. Do you fight to defend the S.S. Skype? Can you bribe the scoundrels and trust them to leave? Or do you bend, take [...] |
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