Phil Wolff

Google raising enough money to afford Skype?

August 19, 2005 12:25 PM

Topics: Business | Skype News

Google to raise billions for a buying spree. Reports keep mentioning Skype Technologies as a potential acquisition target. Rumors. Wouldn't hard news be nice for a change?




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Posted by: Dmitriy Andreyev at August 19, 2005 1:18 PM

Is it a new information about Skype selling? Who will be the next potential buyer?

Posted by: niji at August 19, 2005 6:42 PM

google+skype+apple

Posted by: Phil Wolff at August 20, 2005 3:20 AM

Kind of a wierd mixture of flavors. An Apple consumer branding monster could do worse than to have an iChat on 50 million Windows machines. Google is odd in this mix, it has other social media on the edge (Blogger et al) but how does Skype power the curious and knowledge seeking? And where does Google benefit Apple, and Apple help Google?

Posted by: A Coskunuzer at August 22, 2005 6:12 AM

I think this is a possible acquisition that Google might do. Yet, Google appears to acquire start-up companies. Acquiring Skype would be a change in their management strategy which is very unlikely to occur.

Just a thought :)

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