Skype on Facebook: Keep your $ 4 Billion

There were rumors last night that talks with Skype to sell on Facebook is as high as $ 4000000000 As reported by Reuters and The Guardian - but many probably will not happen. Skype is already married in motion - and companies - Bank of Internet, with varying degrees of success. However, Skype has more than 845 million accounts, so why not in pairs or synergies with Facebook, the largest social networking site with over 500 million users?

Getting Social

Skype and Facebook are dating again each time we have to integrate with the Facebook News Feed, which users can view, analyze and comment your friends on Skype for Windows. The new interface was launched last month. Skype also has Skype Me application on Facebook that if access is allowed, links will be able to make calls and did not SkpFB or a cat. Skype works with MySpace. In October 2007 he joined forces with MySpace, Skype - for the moment, the largest social network - MySpace offers free calls to users via instant messaging. The Alliance was less than 3 years later (without fanfare -. MySpace icon simply removed from software version 5.3) Fixed

I Hear a Voice

Communicate through Facebook is currently prohibited in the text - news from the Wall, and chat - Even if your site has a huge impact on mobile phones. However, more than 250 million active users currently have access to Facebook through their mobile devices - and how users are twice as active Facebook users desktop - to work to implement and more than 200 operators in 60 countries to promote products and Facebook Mobile Facebook has created his own brand of feature called Facebook.

I always wondered why.

Previously, on April 20, a freelance journalist, News Factor Network for me comment from Bob T-Mobile VoIP applications, currently in phase, are available for integration with users of Facebook, friends, has signed a cat. ; From voice to social networks, T-Mobile is hoping for a time, and interestingly, I noticed, download the application and integration of my list to chat a bit 'green phone next to his name. At that time, he told reporters - and have been given - that T-Mobile Punch Skype to crash.

But I was wrong. Six days later, the suspension of T-Mobile Facebook App Bob. Someone has promised to provide desirable items call Facebook? It can not be there ... .. Skype?

Making Money

Skype can do wonders for users of Facebook, but will likely remain just that - the Alliance. Facebook can be a sale of $ 4000000000, eclipsing its draft IPO $ 100,000,000, but Skype is on this road. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype and developers sold his company to eBay for U.S. $ 3100000000 in 2005, the online auction giant, who returned to the founders and other investors to sell less than four years later. If the chip Internet companies, eBay can not cope with it - or money - Skype, Facebook?

Facebook and the acquisition would lead to a rich and dynamic experience for users of both services, but the race to buy Skype is not able to come: at present only 6% of Skype users now pay for telephone service. For additional revenue, Yahoo announced in March it sold ads on the strategy will succeed. In the interest of the mobile phone - but to turn a profit before the IPO - the Ministry of Skype does not seem likely. As such, Skype will continue to make public its plans, and I'm curious to have interesting projects in Serbia.