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Skype’s Growth Starts to Slow [GigaOM]
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... eBay today turned in a lukewarm performance for the fourth quarter of 2008, posting sales of $2.04 billion vs. an average forecast of $2.12 billion. Earnings per share were a penny better than expected, at 40 cents a share. Amidst all this doom and gloom, it was nice to see Skype, their communications division, show some signs of growth. The big question now is: How long can Skype continue to grow — and keep bringing in much-needed revenues for its parent? ...
Skype Sees a Bright Future; Will It Be Spun Off? [GigaOM]
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... to discuss its latest quarterly results — mostly because a Skype spokesperson emailed me to complain that my last post overlooked the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations. As a result, Brian O’Shaughnessy, head of global communications for Skype, emailed to let me know that my conclusions about their growth were inaccurate. He wrote: ...
Should eBay Spin Off Skype? The Debate Continues [GigaOM]
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... Why? As I pointed out last week, Skype has some serious growth challenges. But don’t tell that to analysts, who measure everything with a hockey stick. ...
Is eBay Warming Up The Skype Billion-Dollar Buyout Plan?
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... , Skype's financials are murky, as Om Malik points out. The company also still faces the same big problem: monetization. As Skype gets bigger, that problem could become even more difficult. After all, if Skype continues to garner more and more users, more and more calls will shift from the paid SkypeOut service to free Skype-to-Skype calls. Skype is said to be profitable (although there's no indication of how profitable), but it seems pretty clear that it hasn't been the runaway success that would have justified its $4 billion price tag. While it's possible that any current sale ...
Quicknet: What Might Have Been [GigaOM]
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... The technology industry is full of alternate histories, tales of what might have been had things unfolded just a bit differently. We all know about Skype, but did you know that the likes of Skype could have emerged a decade sooner, and almost did, thanks to a scrappy little San Francisco company named Quicknet Technologies? ...
As Mobile Data Grows, People Want Wireless Carriers To Buzz Off [GigaOM]
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... With that kind of growth, Skype, which commissioned the survey, has to be thinking hard about its mobile strategy, especially as it reaches saturation on the desktop. The company recently tied up with Nokia and there have been other standalone offerings from startups ...
How to Build a Free (or Almost Free) Phone System for Your Business [GigaOM]
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... , on the other hand, is international, and offers dial-in numbers worldwide, dial-out service, and a robust voice/IM/video capability. Most of what you can do with Grand Central, you can also do with Skype, which is also free (although you do have to pay a nominal fee for dial-in numbers, and reasonable per-minute fees for outbound calls). I use Skype extensively, and find that it’s better than ...
Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week [GigaOM]
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... the announcement will be made there. I am working on getting more details, as well as screenshots of the service.
The biggest clue about Skype’s pending iPhone launch came when iSkoot decided to move on from its Skype-centric strategy. The company had been offering a client that allowed cell phone users to use Skype services. Skype already offers a Windows Mobile version of its client.
As I’ve said before, Skype will have to turn to mobile to keep its growth intact. In recent months, many services, ...
Why eBay Should Accept Skype Founders’ Buyout Offer [GigaOM]
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... on Apple’s iPhone/iPod touch platform. A version for WiFi-enabled BlackBerrys is coming in May. The bad news is that, sooner rather than later, Skype’s growth is going to hit a ceiling. ...
Skype Dials in to Local Search
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... came this week that it will spin off the subsidiary in an IPO next year. This culminates more than three years of media conjecture around eBay's inability to find synergies with the $4.1 billion acquisition. As an independent company, Skype could have a greater impetus (and ability) to redefine itself -- a need driven further by the flattening growth that comes naturally with such high subscriber volumes. Local search could be one way to do this, according to Nick Corr, Skype senior product manager of e-commerce. A former yellow pages guy, Corr has spent most of the last ...
With an IPO on Its Mind, Skype Shows Growth [GigaOM]
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... It added 37.9 million new users during the quarter and now has a total of 443.2 million registered users. In comparison, the company ended 2008 with 405 million subscribers. In the previous quarter it added about 35 million new registered users. Skype, which has become the largest long-distance company, has been experiencing slowdown in its per-user revenues. The company logged 2.9 billion Skype Out minutes, or about 6.53 minutes per user. ...
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