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Facebook to Buy Skype?

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Two reliable sources say Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is talking to Skype about either buying the company or forming a joint venture, according to Reuters. One of the sources said Facebook is considering a buyout of Skype at a price of between $3 billion and $4 billion. Others pointed out that Skype’s IPO, which has been recently delayed by its new CEO until the second half of 2011, was expected to raise less than that, around $1 billion. The other source told Reuters the deal won’t be a purchase by Facebook, but a joint venture between Facebook and Skype . Skype and Facebook are no strangers. Last October, when Skype released its version 5.0 software for Windows, it included a Facebook tab that let users chat or call Facebook friends via Skype, right from the Facebook newsfeed that can be viewed from within the Skype application. Facebook isn’t the only one chasing Skype. One of the sources talking to Reuters added that Google was also in “early talks” with Skype about a joint ventur...

101 Most useful Websites

Useful Websites Worth a Bookmark! The sites mentioned below, well most of them, solve at least one problem really well and they all have simple web addresses (URLs) that you can easily learn by heart thus saving you a trip to Google. Site list - 01. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube. 02. bounceapp.com – for capturing full length screenshots of web pages. 03. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes. 04. untiny.me – find the original URLs that’s hiding behind a short URLs. 05. localti.me – know more than just the local time of a city 06. copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard. 07. topsy.com – a better search engine for twitter. 08. fb.me/AppStore – search iOS app without launching iTunes. 09. iconfinder.com – the best place to find icons of all sizes. 10. office.com – download templates, clipart and images for your Office documents. 11. woorank.com – everything you wanted to kn...