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Skype Buys GroupMe, a New York-based Mobile Messaging Start-UpJENNA WORTHAM The New York Times 08/21/2011 | Microsoft set to buy Skype for $8.5bn in biggest deal in history Daily Mail 05/10/2011 |
 Skype, the Internet calling service, said on Sunday that it was buying GroupMe, a year-old start-up in New York that offers a group-messaging service for cellphones. |  Microsoft is on the verge of buying Skype for $8.5billion - despite the Internet phone service making a loss of $7million last year. The deal would be the biggest in the 36-year history of the world's largest software company. Microsoft has trailed Apple and Google in the mobile and Internet arenas. |
Russian security service wants to ban Skype and Gmail Telegraph 04/08/2011 | Rupert Murdoch fights to take the 'sky' out of 'Skype'Rupert Neate Telegraph 08/10/2010 |
 The Russian security service has proposed banning Skype, Hotmail and Gmail as their "uncontrolled use" could pose a security threat, a service official said during a government meeting on Friday. |  BSkyB is trying to prevent Skype, the internet phone company, from continuing to use its name because the first three letters spell "sky". |
Skype to get independence -- for better or worseSinead Carew Reuters 11/06/2009 | EBay Sells Most of Skype to Private InvestorsBRAD STONE The New York Times 09/01/2009 |
 Now that eBay has vaulted a major hurdle in its efforts to sell Skype, the Web telephony service must prove it can make it on its own. |  SAN FRANCISCO — EBay announced a deal Tuesday to sell its Skype online calling service to a group of private investors, led by the Silicon Valley private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. |
Skype could be cut off for good over disputeMike Harvey Times Online 08/01/2009 | EBay Plans IPO for Skype Unit to End ’Marriage Made in Hell’Joseph Galante Bloomberg.com 04/14/2009 |
 Skype might have to shut down because of a dispute over the core technology used to make the internet telephone system work. EBay, which paid $2.6 billion (£1.6 billion) for the voice-over-the-internet system in 2005, is facing a court battle with the original founders of the company who retained the rights to the technology at the heart of the system. |  EBay Inc., under pressure to focus on reviving sales at its main e-commerce site, is planning an initial public offering for the Skype Internet-calling unit in the first half of 2010. |
Ebay Skype sale unlikely: report Reuters UK 04/13/2009 | Skype for iPhone banned by carriers in US, EuropeWill Park Into Mobile 04/06/2009 |
 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A proposed buyout of eBay Inc's Skype led by private equity, including Warburg Pincus and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and the Web telephone company's co-founders is unlikely to be completed, the Wall Street Journal cited sources as saying on its blog on Monday. |  Now this is an interesting development in the mobile VoIP, commonly known as mobile voice over Internet, community. The iPhonejust recently welcomed the popular VoIP service Skype into the App Stpre to amazing success. |
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