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Tweet Microsoft has announced that its instant message chat tool is to be ‘retired’ in favour of Skype’s messaging service. The software giant, which bought Skype for $8.5bn (5.3bn) in May 2011, said Windows Live Messenger (WLM) would be turned off by March 2013, although it would remain available in China. [&hellip
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Tweet European anti-trust officials have approved US technology giant Microsoft’s $US8.5 billion ($A8.76 billion) takeover of Internet voice and video leader Skype. ‘The deal would not significantly impede effective competition across the single European market’ of half a billion consumers, the European Commission said in a statement on Friday. Microsoft’s purchase is aimed at boosting [&hellip
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Tweet Microsoft has announced plans to buy internet phone service company Skype for $US8.5 billion ($A7.9 billion) in a move aimed at carving out a bigger presence in an online arena dominated by Google and Facebook. The acquisition of Skype, which had reportedly also attracted interest from Cisco, Facebook and Google, is the largest ever [&hellip