Shareholder activist Carl Icahn continues a daily stream of threats aimed at eBay and PayPal, and yet has failed to make public his full business case for separating the two… Read More
Microsoft announced today that Skype for Outlook.com is finally available to users around the world and made a couple improvements to the functionality of the service. Nearly one year ago,… Read More
The Skype spin-off has become a core piece of evidence in Carl Icahn’s campaign to force eBay to spin-off PayPal into a separately traded company. In response, eBay issued a letter… Read More
In a letter sent to eBay shareholders today, Carl Icahn calls eBay’s corporate governance “dysfunctional,” particularly when it came to Skype’s $8.5 billion sale to Microsoft in 2011. It is… Read More
Updated at 9:50 a.m. with more details. Microsoft today demonstrated the upcoming ability for users of Skype and Lync to make video calls to each other, part of a broader… Read More
Microsoft announced today that users of Skype’s messaging function should now see all of their messages on every device that uses the communication app. That means we should see an… Read More
Skype just added the ability for users of its iOS app on the iPhone 5S, Retina iPad Mini and iPad Air to make and receive two-way HD video calls. It’s… Read More
Skype’s social media properties and blogs were hijacked yesterday, with the Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group loyal to the regime of Bashar al-Assad, taking resposibility for the attack. The… Read More
Microsoft no longer has the threat of yet another European antitrust case hanging over it. According to a report by Reuters, the General Court of the European Union ruled that… Read More
—It seems as though just about everyone has heard of Amazon’s audacious plan to deploy flying delivery drones. Some are calling it a PR stunt, but Amazon actually has a… Read More
Last week, people who use the Microsoft-owned Skype phone/IM/video chat system on desktop computers received an unwelcome surprise. Via a notice embedded in their software, they were told that third-party… Read More
Apple’s iOS 7 has been accused of taking cues from Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Windows 8, but Microsoft sure took its sweet time updating its Skype apps for Apple’s new… Read More
Outlook.com users who want to make Skype phone calls without opening up another app can now do so from their email hub. Starting today, Outlook.com officially rolled out Skype integration… Read More
When you install Windows 8.1, you’ll now have the opportunity to video call your friends and let them know that you’ve managed to successfully navigate the upgrade process, without having… Read More
Throughout the year, Microsoft has lambasted Google and accused them of shady privacy policies via its “Scroogled” campaign. But now, new top-secret documents given to The Guardian by Edward Snowden shows… Read More
Skype today announced a new milestone for its Android app, and with it came a big update. There have now been more than 100 million installs of Skype for Android,… Read More
Skype is promising to make it easier to access and send chat messages inside its apps —saying it’s “putting conversations at the heart of a redesigned experience” while aiming to make Skype… Read More
Skype’s free video messaging feature is fully out of beta today and everyone can now send as many three-minute moving messages to your Skype contacts — whether or not they’re online —… Read More
A new Microsoft television ad, airing for the first time tonight, aims to introduce the public to the company’s new “devices and services” strategy — and implicitly helps to explain why… Read More
Microsoft is starting to integrate Skype into Outlook.com, aiming to make its webmail service more of a universal communications hub. The company this morning announced a preview of Skype video… Read More
Windows Phone users who chat with Skype should enjoy better quality video and People Hub integration with the app’s latest update. Skype released the update for Windows Phone today, detailing… Read More
One of the big questions when Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion was what would happen to Lync, the Redmond company’s unified communication service for companies. This morning, Microsoft delivered… Read More
On the eve of Microsoft’s first-ever Lync Conference, Cisco today launched a campaign questioning Microsoft’s strategy of making its communication and collaboration products work “first and best” on Windows. Cisco,… Read More
Skype today launched a new beta video message feature, letting users record videos as long as three minutes and send them to Skype contacts to view whenever it’s convenient. It’s… Read More
Over 100 Internet advocates, journalists and other organization members penned an open letter to Microsoft today, urging the Redmond software giant to be more transparent with its Skype software. In… Read More
Emails were sent out to Windows Live Messenger users today notifying them that the Microsoft is shutting down the chat service on March 15 of this year. We heard about this… Read More
Microsoft’s Skype Division is temporarily removing integration with Windows Phone’s People Hub in the latest update to its app for Microsoft’s mobile platform, citing problems with “device stability.” The integration… Read More
In a blog post late Friday, the Yahoo Messenger team announced that it’s cutting several features from the instant-messaging service as part of the broader attempt to bring new focus… Read More
Microsoft’s Skype division this morning confirmed that the company will be retiring its Windows Live Messenger service and shifting users to Skype for instant messaging and video calls. The news,… Read More
Microsoft will be phasing out its Windows Live Messenger instant-messaging and video calling software in the coming months and replacing it with Skype, according to a report this morning by… Read More