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MicroSkype is too big to slip under EU regulatory radar

Phil Wolff 5 October 2011 1:24 pm

UPDATE: WHOOPS! Financial Times says EU Commission will approve deal, no strings. I guess it still managed to slip through. “Competition reviews are still under way in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Taiwan.”

Less than 100 hours from Europe ruling on the Microsoft-Skype purchase, Skype’s Jean-Jacques Sahel shared a Plum report on the economic [...]

Should the US have OK’d Microsoft’s purchase of Skype? Should the EU?

Phil Wolff 26 September 2011 2:14 am

Skype is too big to slip under regulatory radar again. If the EU commission requires Microsoft to comply with a short list of demands, Skype can be a better corporate citizen, a more competitive platform provider, and literally save lives. Here’s how. [...]