Dealbook: Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Skype For $8.5 Billion

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and STEVE LOHR, New York Times
Mon, 05/09/2011 - 8:41pm

The acquisition, an effort to gain a foothold in voice and video communications, would be Microsoft’s largest ever.

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