A Reuters article suggests that both Facebook and Google are in the running for some sort of joint venture with consumer voice-over IP (VoIP) giant Skype. While the promise of reaching Facebook’s ...

Rumors are out again that Ebay's albatross. aka Skype, may soon be unloaded to Google. The deal could be valued at as much as $6 billion: "Skype is booking about $400 million in revenue now, and it's ...

Facebook and Google are reportedly pondering whether to undertake either an acquisition of Skype or a joint venture. Reuters reported that Facebook and Google are pondering some sort of deal with the ...

Google's real target in its Vidyo deal: Using Hangouts to attack Skype. Last week, Vidyo made a small 335-word announcement with huge implications for itself and WebRTC. The news was that Google and ...

Skype’s doing well for itself if they sold themselves in 2005 to eBay for $2.6bn, which then sold 65 per cent of it off for $1.9bn. Now, both Facebook and Google are rumored to be eyeing up Skype ...

If Microsoft put together a welcoming committee for Google’s new CEO Larry Page as Page assumed his new job recently, it couldn’t have done a better job. First the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant ...

Google may be moving deeper into Skype’s Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) territory, with a little help from Nokia. The Finland-based personal communications device maker is adding Google Talk to ...

Google’s love-hate relationship with the carriers seems to be tilting more a bit to the hate side lately. While Google’s business depends on the carriers, and their ability to deliver search users ...

Hotmail might have been losing market share to Google's Gmail and Yahoo Mail, and it's getting stale, but it still has a ton of users. Its IM client is well designed, but like any other IM client, its ...

Video chat service Skype has some new competition – Google has just added audio and video chat to Gmail. The new chat tools essentially offer most of the features of Skype, or Apple's iChat, within ...