Not without reason Microsoft poured funds up to U.S. $ 8 billion to buy Skype.
Sites that provide communications services via the Internet this could be one source of new revenue for technology giant origin Redmond, Washington. Thanks to the shrewdness lobby Officer Chief Executive (CEO) of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, who initially had bargained Skype Google and Facebook eventually receive a ‘proposal’ Microsoft.
So what you want to achieve Microsoft’s joint venture with the annexed eBay and Silver Lake Partners, is it?
According to the analysis Gigaom.com site, would not be surprised if the software giant was enamoured with Skype because you want to ‘master’ communications service Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). As for Google and up are considered not serious about buying because each already has a similar service.
Google, for example. Why would a company based in California that bought Skype and she already has a Google Voice service. The up already got Facebook Chat and Microsoft is one of the investors. In essence, the two companies do not really want to buy Skype.
While Microsoft get many times more profit from the acquisition of Skype. Some of them are:
- Provide additional feature in service thanks to the ability of inter-company connections Skype share of voice and video. This feature is very useful especially when Microsoft compete with Cisco and Google.
- Opens the opportunity to work with operators for providing the LTE-based network.
- Giving more value to the operating system for mobile devices, namely Microsoft Windows 7.
- The presence of Skype also affected the cooperation between Microsoft and Nokia in strengthening its platform. Later, Windows 7 Phone can also work like Google Voice and Apple Facetime.
With the opportunities that have Skype, then why eBay and Silver Lake Partners to sell?
Some sources said Skype is no longer making money. Moreover, the two investors were anxious to get fresh funds with shortcuts. Sell.
So the money from Microsoft for U.S. $ 8 billion was planned to be divided by two. eBay earns U.S. $ 2.4 billion because it only has 30 percent stake in the company. The founders of Skype, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, get U.S. $ 1.2 billion. While Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen and Horowitz Investment Board Canada Pension Investment (CPPIB), which has a stake of 56 percent will reap funds amounting to U.S. $ 4.48 billion.
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