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Skype Acquires GroupMe, Branding Opportunities
ADOTAS – GroupMe was the talk of the town — the town being Austin — back in March as “group texting” was declared the biggest craze of South by Southwest 2011. Unlike the check-in fad of 2009 and 2010, however, the buzz around group messaging (which is pretty much the equivalent [...] more...
Catching Up With Google+, Facebook to Debut Skype-Powered Video Chat
ADOTAS – Called it! Sorta… When Skype was on the auction block a few months back I suggested Facebook could rule the bustling real-time message arena with Skype’s video chat technology in its back end. One day later, Microsoft bought the VoIP service, but since Facebook and Microsoft are best [...] more...
Before IPO, Advertising Comes to Skype
ADOTAS – Not even our phone calls are safe from advertising! Well, actually they haven’t been for a while if you consider telemarketers or even LiveWire Mobile’s ringback tones, which enable advertising as you wait for the guy on the other end to pick up. Besides that, Skype’s new display ads [...] more...
Industry roundup: Mergers, deals and launches
ADOTAS – Burst Media has acquired Giant Realm. Traffic Marketplace has launched MarketInsight, a comprehensive suite of campaign reporting products that are powered by from comScore and sister site Firstlook.com. Three Omnicom Group agencies — TBWA London, Rapp and Wolff Olins — will split Skype’s $80 million global advertising business. The company [...] more...
Google to buy Skype for mobile push?
ADOTAS — As if Google wasn’t big enough, rumors are mounting that eBay is preparing to sell Skype and Google is in play as the buyer. After John Donahue, its chief executive, described Skype as a “great stand-alone business”. This has led to suggestions that eBay would find it relatively easy [...] more...
Gmail Unveils Free Video, Chat Service
ADOTAS – Google has launched Gmail voice and video chat, in a bid to compete with Skype. The new service enables Gmail and Google App subscribers to chat with friends on a video screen and IM with them in a Google Chat box – as long as they have a [...] more...
Hiring Round-Up: Skype, iBloks, NBCU
ADOTAS – Skype has nabbed a former Motorola exec as its new COO. Scott Durchslag brings 20 years of experience in the tech and telecom business to Skype. iBloks, 3D ad aficionados, named Will Hunsinger, the former GM of Gap Online, as its CEO. iBloks also recently appointed Mike Hard, [...] more...
eBay’s CEO To Retire
It has been reported today that eBay CEO Meg Whitman, is getting ready to retire from the company. She is one of the most powerful women in business and her exit comes at a time when the brand is attempting to re-establish its one-time astronomical growth. Whitman will be heeding her [...] more...
Coke Drinks Joost
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström became famous from their very popular and disruptive peer-2-peer technology product called Kazaa. After many lawsuits, nasty PR battles, a few raids, and finally some settlements the two technology and media wizards from Europe moved on to their next project called Skype. They parlayed the original P2P [...] more...
Skype Founder Tries Hand at Online Advertising
The folks behind eBay-owned Skype announced that they will invest in Wunderloop, an online advertising firm based in Luxembourg. Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype, along with two of his technology investors, Klaus Hommels and Howard Hartenbaum, will invest in the European company that claims to have developed a groundbreaking [...] more...
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