Microsoft Corp plans to buy a VoIP service Skype phone for $ 8.5 billion. Purchase may be the largest in company history. Skype capabilities allow the software giant to compete more effectively with such a successful Internet company like Google. In negotiations that lasted nearly a month, Microsoft surpassed Google and Facebook, which offered a sum of between Skype $ 3 and $ 4 billion.
According to analysts, Microsoft can use Skype to improve the functionality of such popular services as Windows and Office. Monthly subscriber base Skype has about 145 million, in addition, service has become a popular means of communication among small businesses.
According to the newspaper Reuters, the amount that Microsoft is willing to pay for the service, three times the investment of the current owners: eBay Inc and investors Silver Lake, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz.
Based on materials http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42967056/ns/business-us_business/
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