Skype pushes gaming software down users throats
31 May 2011
VoIP firm disables unintentional adware-style push
Skype has further irked its users, already put out by an outage last week, by pushing a Windows add-on that installed itself on users' systems whether or not they gave it permission to install.
Skype pushes out Windows update following massive login glitch
27 May 2011
Trying to connect you...
Skype has published an update that provides an easy way for users to log back into the system following a software glitch that resulted in the VoIP service hanging up on users on Thursday.
$8.5bn Skype goes titsup again - including website
26 May 2011
Truly, Microsoft has the golden touch
Skype went titsup on Thursday, days after the announcement of a deal to buy the VoIP outfit by Microsoft.
Gates defends Ballmer's Skype gamble
17 May 2011
'A great deal for Microsoft'
Somebody big has come to the defense of Steve Ballmer's $8.5bn purchase of web telco Skype - the biggest deal in Microsoft's history.
Microsoft Skype: How the VCs won and Ballmer overpaid
10 May 2011
Is Skype his next aQuantive?
Analysis A trio of Silicon Valley venture capitalists have made out handsomely from Microsoft's $8.5bn purchase of Web 2.0 carrier Skype. The money men have earned themselves $6.6bn in cash selling the unwanted web-telco company that they bought a $1.9bn stake in from eBay, while dodging the pain, paperwork, and inevitable disappointment of an IPO.
Microsoft poised to make biggest ever buy ? Skype
10 May 2011
P2P blabbernet seduces another sugar daddy
Microsoft is close to buying VoIP service Skype for about $8.5bn.
Skype bug gives attackers access to Mac OS X machines
06 May 2011
'Extremely wormable and dangerous'
Mac users running Skype are vulnerable to self-propagating exploits that allow an attacker to gain unfettered system access by sending a specially manipulated attachment in an instant message, a hacker said.
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Dear Google and Facebook: You don't want Skype
06 May 2011
Give it Cisco. Or AT&T
Open...and Shut The word is out that Facebook and Google are now considering partnerships with or acquisition of Skype. The big question, however, is what they'd do with it. As eBay discovered to its hurt, Skype isn't a product that necessarily plays well with others.
Skype mulls going online with offline Facebook, Google contacts
05 May 2011
Report points at chats 'n' that
Facebook has reportedly been in talks with Skype, and the company's boss Mark Zuckerberg is said to have mulled over buying the web video chat service.
Skype plugs Android privacy flaw
21 Apr 2011
Less paranoia
Skype has plugged a privacy flaw in the Android version of its VoIP telephony software.