Skype News & Articles

This week we wondered who would benefit most from acquiring Skype, and whether or not size matters in the app department. 

Viber (news, site) is the coming-up-on-the-rails alternative to Skype that offers better quality calls and is now available to the massive Android army.

While there have been rumors before associating Google with Skype, Facebook with Skype and Skype with other companies in the VoIP space, a report from global news agency Reuters that Skype is in talks about either a partnership, or acquisition, with one or the other of the two is a little bit more concrete than previous whisperings.

Skype's (news, site) new service helps users make calls from any phone, regardless of type, via a special phone number system.

Facebook's (news, site) new Messenger App could blow a big hole in existing VoIP services and wreck the market for newcomers.

Last year, Viber made a fair impact as an mobile app alternative to Skype VoIP. With a new technology partner on-board, could it now be about to go stellar? 

Lots of big news in the E2.0 world this week! Read on for details on everything from the grand opening of an entire social network for the enterprise (Chatter.com) to IBM's new social business initiative. 

Unified communications experts generally see Skype (news, site) as more a consumer service than an enterprise-level solution, yet Skype continues to court the world of business with a number of professional features and the recent partnership with Avaya. In case you've been sleeping on the news, here's a quick look at how the platform can help out at the work place: 

The social world is all about going public as of late, but what does that mean for business? Meanwhile, new solutions continue to arrive in waves, the latest coming from everyone's favorite VoIP company (cue group video chat).

It looks like Skype (news, site) is preparing for a good year. The VoIP company announced the acquisition of Qik's mobile video software technology at this week's CES conference in Las Vegas.

Here's the part where I imagine Marc Benioff stepping in and saying, "I told you so." Salesforce continued down the software-less path with this week's reveal of Database.com-- a storage solution that's being touted as the next evolution of cloud computing. Meanwhile, researchers are doing what they can to prepare the world of business for a generation that's never not been connected, and companies like Skype are rolling with the punches by way of new Web-based solutions. 

Happy Monday and welcome to the rumor mill. Over the weekend, Skype (news, site) news suggested the popular VoIP service was gearing up to release some new Web-based products. Today we’ve additional details, including when you can probably expect them and integrations to look out for.

As you may remember, Facebook integrated with Skype last month. The news was pretty exciting then, but things have gotten even more interesting with app developer Tal Ater's note of the “VideoChat” object in Facebook’s code.

The past week in the enterprise was full of cool little twists and turns. First, Skype released version 5.0 of their platform (complete with a Facebook tab), and then an unconventional take on microblogging hit the scene. 

Apparently Bing isn't the only one getting cozy with Facebook. Skype 5.0 for Windows (released yesterday) dedicates an entire tab to the social network, alllowing users to Skype call, chat or SMS their Facebook friends right from the news feed: