Microsoft Completes $8.5B Skype Acquisition, Welcomes New Team
Skype will become a business unit of Microsoft Corp. after the board of directors of each company agreed on the terms of an $8.5 billion acquisition. Microsoft said the move will accelerate the companies’ efforts to transform real-time communications for consumers and enterprise customers. In the long term, Microsft will integrate Skype into many of its products “to broaden [...]
An annual list ranking the top 100 most influential movers and shakers has named executives from VMware, Intel and Hewlett-Packard among the top 10 most powerful IT leaders. Everything Channel‘s CRN recognizes the executives who have changed the way the channel does business through engineering blockbuster acquisitions, developing breakthrough technology initiatives and spearheading aggressive channel [...]
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