I’ve written before that I can see why Microsoft bought Skype at such a high valuation and it has to be based on selling advertising to the billions of potential Skype clients in the future. What I didn’t fully appreciate at the time is the potential benefit it could have for Lync. After speaking with
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No Comments » As they move into their new Palo Alto offices Skype have some office space to fill. They’ve released a quick video promoting what a great place to work Skype is. Taking a quick look at the career page on Skype there are 83 positions currently open with the standard mix of Product, Engineering and Back
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Skype continue to develop their client and version 5 brings easier Facebook integration and Group Video chat.
Have Avaya just become relevant again? Since Skype and Avaya have shared common ownership it has been speculated that the two companies would create a deeper technical and commercial parternship. While it may have taken longer than necessary; this week Avaya and Skype made the announcement that they would share technology and Skype trunks would be pre-loaded
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It is clear that Google would like to compete with Skype with their Google Voice product. I’m just not sure trying to grow Google Voice organically will work. The closest analogy I can think of is very quick and clear cut competition between Google Video and Youtube, which eventually led to the acquisition of Youtube by Google.
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Rumours persist that Cisco are looking into buying Skype. I’d be very interested to understand why Cisco would wish to buy Skype. Is it for their consumer user base, IP or potential revenue streams? I personally don’t see the fit, unlike the excellent recent aquisition of Tandberg. Is it a defensive move to prevent voice
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