Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion. Why, Exactly?

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It’s hard to see how the Skype purchase is worthwhile from a technology or user access perspective.

The technology isn’t good enough and the users aren’t lucrative enough or plentiful enough to justify it.

But that doesn’t mean it won’t happen — and the prospect of keeping the company out of reach of Google and Facebook may just make the purchase irresistible.

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