Some two (02) days ago (Manila time), Microsoft confirmed that they will be buying Skype for a whopping US$8.5B (that roughly PHP342B as of this posting). Same has been confirmed by Skype’s Tony Bates in their company blog:
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Robert “Bob” Reyes is a technologist, an ICT Consultant and Tech Speaker, a certified Google IT Support Specialist, and an Open Source advocate representing the global non-profit Mozilla (makers of Firefox) in the Philippines. Bob is a Technology Columnist for the Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation and an aviation subject matter expert contributor for Spot.PH.
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