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Re:How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-... by ioa44 on Friday May 13, 2011 @03:06PM (#2545752)
"Xbox + Kinect + Skype + headset + two sets of friends = social game platform at scale day one." Game changer.
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Re:How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-... by jasonmcalacanis on Friday May 13, 2011 @04:11PM (#2545994)
that;s a good line :-)
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Re:How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-... by surfingdino on Friday May 13, 2011 @05:10PM (#2546202)
But MSFT still has a 1.6% stake in Facebook, don't they? OK, so they may want to write it off should the Skype gamble pay off. I still have a feeling they will totally mess it up, though.
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Re:How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-... by rrhoover on Friday May 13, 2011 @02:53PM (#2545700)
Wow! I didn't realize Skype had over 600 million users.
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Re:How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-... by Louis-Eric on Friday May 13, 2011 @10:47PM (#2547023)
It makes sense to draw the social graph from actual connections rather than deduce it from people's declarations. Smart.
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Re:How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-... by bradpineau on Friday May 13, 2011 @02:07PM (#2545535)
Totally agree!
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Re:How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-... by surfingdino on Friday May 13, 2011 @05:05PM (#2546184)
What's a 'no-shop'?
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Re:How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-... by jasonmcalacanis on Saturday May 14, 2011 @10:56AM (#2547744)
a no-shop means that if i agree to give you a deal price you don't go take it to five other players and "shop" it around by asking for a better deal.
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Re:How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-... by surfingdino on Sunday May 15, 2011 @03:25PM (#2550582)
Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me, Jason!
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