Posts related to ‘Skype’

Censorship: The Great Enemy Of Skype, Facebook, And Twitter

Posted: January 3, 2011 at 4:32 am

The determination of foreign governments to protect their national technology franchises or censor information that originates outside their borders could limit the growth prospects of Skype, Facebook, and Twitter. That's ...
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Media Digest 1.3.2011 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 3, 2011 at 3:52 am

Facebook raised money at a $50 billion valuation. (NYT) Foreign commercial real estate investors ranked the US as the No.1 location to buy properties. (Reuters) Oil is unlikely to surge ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/28/2010) Apple iPhone Sales, Skype Video

Posted: December 28, 2010 at 8:32 am

Updated throughout the day Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) plans to sell 21 million iPhones in the first quarter of next year (various) Skype may offer video chat on several smartphones (various) ...
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Service Outages: The Challenge For Facebook, Twitter, And Skype

Posted: December 24, 2010 at 5:54 am

Facebook, Twitter, and Skype face an unusual challenge if they are to keep the dominance in their respective markets. It may be difficult to keep each of the services online ...
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Media Digest 12.24.2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 24, 2010 at 5:03 am

The head of the FCC said he supports the Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) plan to take a majority position in GE's (NYSE: GE) NBCU. (Reuters) SpendingPulse reports online retail sales are ...
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Will Skype Lose Its Charm As It Starts To Charge For 3G Calls?

Posted: June 3, 2010 at 5:02 am

Skype, the pioneering VoIP company, says people have downloaded five million of its apps on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhones. Skype means to leverage its new universe of 3G users by ...
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Sifting Thru eBay’s Earnings (EBAY)

Posted: October 17, 2007 at 11:38 am

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) is on deck for earnings today. First Call has estimates pegged at $0.33 EPS and revenues at $1.83 Billion; next quarter estimates are $0.38 EPS and $2.06 ...
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eBay Loses Skype CEO and Takes Charges (EBAY)

Posted: October 1, 2007 at 8:35 am

eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) has announced this morning that Niklas Zennstrom has stepped down as CEO of Skype. Zennstrom, who co-founded Skype in 2003, will become non-executive chairman of the Skype ...
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Traffic To Skype Website Sky Rockets With Outage

Posted: August 19, 2007 at 11:54 am

During the period that Ebay's (EBAY) Skype VoIP operations were down, traffic to the skype.com website surged according to Alexa.com. Not that it did the visitors any good. Skype was ...
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Ebay Plan For Skype Falters As Service Stays Off-Line

Posted: August 17, 2007 at 6:24 am

After Ebay's (EBAY) last earnings report, CEO Meg Whitman made it clear that the company was not getting a good return on its investment in free VoIP service Skype. EBAY ...
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