In a record acquisition for the company, Microsoft announced it’s buying Skype for $8.5 billion. Explains the release: Skype will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices. There’s every reason to believe that Skype’s relationship with Facebook will expand.
For news organizations that increasingly use Skype for live interviews, the acquisition could be good news. Skype is still reeling a bit from its December outage, and Microsoft could beef up Skype’s dependability. For TV, that’s critical.
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