It operates through the following business segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. engages in the development and support of software, services, devices, and solutions. "They certainly paid a much higher multiple than they paid for PayPal," said Tim Melton, a Chicago attorney with Jones Day, in a reference to eBay's purchase of an online payment service.Microsoft Corp. It's happening right now."īut even granting the new technology's value and the branding power of Skype, which had more than 30 million unique visitors to its Web site in July according to comScore market research, the multibillion-dollar price tag still seems high to many observers. Large carriers are offering voice in bundles at a point where it's nearly free. Internet phone service is driving down the price of voice service, said Raul Martynek, chief of Eureka Networks, a provider of telecommunications services to businesses.
It's become a logical extension of every Internet portal, whether it's Yahoo, Google, AOL or whatever." Jacob Guedalia, chief of iSkoot, a company that brings VoIP services to cell phones, said "voice used to be an infrastructure service, but now it's a software application. "VoIP is far more powerful than just a phone service replacement," he said.
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