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Skype Journal is a weblog for independent news, views and support for Skype users and developers. Skype Journal is produced for the Skype Community by Mosoci LLC and is not connected or affilitated with Skype Technologies S.A. in any way. Any use of Skype Logos or links to Skype are provided under the terms of Skype's brand manual and terms for promoting Skype. We expect to explore new avenues for the Skype API developments and encourage new relationships between developers and businesses. Mosoci will pursue product design and innovation opportunities to co-develop products that support Skype. Similarly hardware reviews are important to growing the market for new handsets and accessories.
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Skype Gaining Business Users
Skype, the Internet-based telephony company which eBay plans to spin off in 2010, claims it's gaining a new audience -- business users. Chaim Haas, a spokesman for the company, told me that the proportion of business users as a percent of the total customer base grew from...
Skype founders aim to buy firm back from eBay - Rumour
The founders of internet call service Skype have secured the backing of four private equity firms in a bid to buy back the company from eBay. KKR, Warburg Pincus, Providence and Elevation Partners are reported to support the bid by Niklas Zennstrom and Jannus Friis to...
Media Roundup: Founders May Buy Skype Back, Twitter Gets Attacked by Worm and More
In Today's Media Roundup: Founders may buy Skype back, Twitter gets attacked by worm, Amazon glitch de-ranks adult books, Gannett rejects offer for Tucson Citizen, Apple approaching 1 billion sold apps and Amazon making a bigger Kindle. by Sean Blanda
Apple, Skype, Adobe, Others Pay Twitterers for Promos
It was only back in January that we saw Belkin make itself look like a fool by advertising to pay consumers who would write glowing product reviews, whether they had used the products or now. Well, it seems that companies never learn, and now there's a veritable flock of magpies...
Google Gunning For eBay, PayPal
Google is going after Skype, eBay's voice-over-IP VoIP phone service and, more importantly, PayPal, its online payment business. Google announced that it's releasing Google Voice to registered users of Grand Central, the VoIP company it acquired in June 2007, and will release it to the general public...
Nokia to bundle Skype with new handsets
Skype has signed a deal with Nokia to integrate its VoIP internet call technology onto Nokia handsets. The agreement promises to cause headaches for mobile operators, which are dependent on call charges and marks the latest push by Skype into the mobile space. ...
eBay to sell Skype – Rumour
Industry insiders say that eBay is gearing up to sell internet telephony firm Skype, which it bought in 2005 for USD2.6bn, a price the auction site has since admitted was too high. Speculation over a possible deal emerged after eBay CEO John Donahue described Skype as a ?great standalone...
Mobile Content Bits: WeMix Rings Up Phonezoo; Skyfire Update; MySpaceID On Vodafone; Amobee; Skype
-- Ludacris's WeMix Partners With Phonezoo: Ludacris is launching WeMix a new user-generated music site with Phonezoo to give independent artists a way to create and distribute ringtones. WeMix is kicking off with a channel on Phonezoo that will include profiles of artists and ringtones. As a whole, WeMix...
The Skype's the Limit
eBay Investor submits: eBay's EBAY acquisition of Skype in 2005 has been one of the many controversial moves eBay has been recently making. The purchase was originally marketed as the missing piece to create the holy trinity in eBay's hallowed e-commerce halls (along with eBay's auction sites and PayPal.)...
EBay's Core Shrivels While Skype Shines
Erick Schonfeld submits: Although eBay EBAY beat its downwardly-revised earnings numbers today, its earnings call see call transcript was filled with glum news for investors. Full earnings slides embedded below. After three flat quarters, revenues declined 3.6 percent from the second quarter to $2.2 billion. Free cash...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Michael Weiss | CEO |
| Philip Wolff | Editor In Chief, Skype Journal |
| Elizabeth Cowley | Vice President Bizdev |
| Stuart Henshall | Founder and Publisher of The Skype Journal |
| Jennifer Caukin | Director of Pr |
| Mosoci Dina Mehta | Research Director |
| Martin Geddes | Mosoci Consulting Practice Manager |
| David Debartolo | Researcher |
| Jim Courtney | Sales, Marketing and Business Development Executive |
| Jon Arnold | Communications Consultant |
| Malthe Sigurdsson | Developer |
| Matt Neco | Counsel |
| Phil Wolff | Head |
| Bill Campbell | Skype Journal's Technical Editor |
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| Skype Journal | CEO | Current |
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| Skype Journal | Editor In Chief, Skype Journal | Current |
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| Skype Journal | Vice President Bizdev | Current |
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| Skype Journal | Founder and Publisher of The Skype Journal | Current |
| Stuart Henshall & Associates | Current | |
| Hewlett-Packard Company | Former | |
| Dow Corning Corporation | Former |
Jim - Thanks for your candid feedback about Skype's PR and how we could better work with the blogging community. Our number one goal at Skype is always to create the best possible product for our users. We understand your desire to have more advance notice on product and a thorough briefing -- which I agree is an ideal PR strategy. Given the circumstances of product roll-outs sometimes facing schedule delays, it is difficult for us to go out with a significant advance notice. That said, we will definitely take your feedback into consideration moving forward, and as always, appreciate your support of Skype.
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| Skype Journal | Director of Pr | Current |
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| Skype Journal | Research Director | Current |
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| Skype Journal | Mosoci Consulting Practice Manager | Current |
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| Skype Journal | Researcher | Current |
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| Skype Journal | Sales, Marketing and Business Development Executive | Current |
Jon Arnold is a Toronto-based communications consultant and IP blogger who does a weekly podcast on the Pulvermedia Podcasting Network with IP industry players. Jon and I also share in interest in the Boston Bruins, largely because he originally came from Boston and because my neighbor's son was one of the high points of what was a "down" season for the Bruins last winter. However while Jon is a dyed-in-the-wool Red Sox fan, I still maintain my loyalty to the Toronto Blue Jays when it comes to baseball. So we have our interests both outside and inside the VoIP arena. Last week Jon invited me to participate as the guest on this week's podcast.A Recorded late yesterday it turned out to be timely as a large portion of the podcast covers the Google-eBay announcement which resulted in several posts, not only on Skype Journal (here, here and here) but also by many of the VoIP bloggers such as Andy Abramson and Alec Saunders.I agree with Mathew Ingram in that the Google-eBay deal may turn out to be more important for Google than the Google Office announcement. You can follow up (with a link to the podcast) here. It's been twelve years since I did media interviews as President of the then newly formed Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft. So if it sounds a bit rusty, it's just my nervousness associated with my first experience with doing a podcast and yet my sensitivity to try to keep a freely flowing conversation.moving along. Thanks again to Jon for the invitation to participate.Give a listen (iTunes Player recommended) and hope it can provide some additional insight into where Skype is going.
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| Skype Journal | Communications Consultant | Current |
Malthe Sigurdsson is on now and talking about The Skype Brand - he is sharing the Skype philosophy of keeping it simple and opening up through the forums and developer community - it works! The room is crowded with people squatting on the floor - just shows the interest in Skype here. More on his talk here.
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| Skype Journal | Developer | Current |
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| Skype Journal | Counsel | Current |
You may have noticed the new banner. My photo is from Skype blogger in chief Jaanus Kase's side trip to Oakland, California, earlier this year. Jaanus and I had lunch at Everett & Jones near the water. I wasn't impressed by the barbeque that time but it was great to finally meet Jaanus and talk enterprise blogging, online community, and social software. In the photo, Jaanus is taking a picture of cargo railcars going to the Port of Oakland through the Jack London Square neighborhood. Oakland is a major cargo hub, the fourth busiest container port in the United States.
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| Skype Journal | Head | Current |
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| Skype Journal | Skype Journal's Technical Editor | Current |
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