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How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-Killer Freeroll
- bradpineau 15y agoTotally agree!
- rrhoover 15y agoWow! I didn't realize Skype had over 600 million users.
- ioa44 15y ago"Xbox + Kinect + Skype + headset + two sets of friends = social game platform at scale day one." Game changer.
- jasonmcalacanis 15y agothat;s a good line :-)
- surfingdino 15y agoBut MSFT still has a 1.6% stake in Facebook, don't they? OK, so they may want to write it off should the Skype gamble pay off. I still have a feeling they will totally mess it up, though.
- surfingdino 15y agoWhat's a 'no-shop'?
- jasonmcalacanis 15y agoa no-shop means that if i agree to give you a deal price you don't go take it to five other players and "shop" it around by asking for a better deal.
- surfingdino 15y agoThank you for taking the time to explain this to me, Jason!
- Louis-Eric 15y agoIt makes sense to draw the social graph from actual connections rather than deduce it from people's declarations. Smart.