Microsoft To Buy Skype For $8.5 billion

The rumors about Skype's acquisition by Microsoft
has turned out to be true with Microsoft announcing that it is buying
Skype for $8.5 billion dollars. This makes it the biggest deal in
Microsoft’s 36-year history. The acquisition of the Luxembourg - based
VoIP company Skype had reportedly attracted interest from Cisco,
Facebook and Google as well - actually Facebook was considered a