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On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 19:23 +0100, Henry Bremridge wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:54:14PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > > How can they be worth $8 million if there's no revenue stream? (Ok, > > there is in the form of Skype-Out, etc. but is that covering their > > costs?) > > > > PS Billion > > > Of have I missed something obvious... > > > In the FT today I have seen two theories > > - MSFT placing advertising in the video element of Skype and making money > > - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3/e4866140-7bef-11e0-9b16-00144feabdc0.html > > Perhaps Microsoft was thinking only about protecting the current > franchise. If Google or Facebook got hold of Skype, they would be closer > to building a suite of products that could shake users loose from > Office/Windows. To prevent that, Microsoft was prepared to pay an amount > that, on traditional metrics, looks insane. > > Oddly enough Skype was originally sold to Ebay who (presumably) could not > make enough money at it and sold it to some private capital people at $5bn > who then sold it to MSFT. > > My thoughts on this were If phones (mobile or not ) were computers and Computers were phones... then as a Computer OS manufacturer I would want to be BT as well. -- Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Eleven Years in the Making! www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq