| eBay buys Skype for $2.6bn
After weeks of rumours over potential partners for Skype, eBay will buy the VoIP company for $2.6bn in cash and stock, plus a further $1.5bn if Skype meets certain financial targets. eBay is looking for the deal to enhance its current businesses, which include online auctions, classified listings and shopping sites, and electronic payments. For instance, Skype could be used to allow buyers and sellers in eBay's online auctions to talk to each other. The deal will also open up new sources of revenue for the company, including charging for these VoIP calls, and eBay is hoping Skype will help boost its presence in areas such as Japan and Scandinavia. Skype, in turn, could use eBay's PayPal e-payments service to make it easier for users to pay for Skype services.
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We do need something to change the mindset of an entire generation that believes stealing intellectual property in the form of music, movies, books, or software is OK. Its not, and its stiil theft and those people are still THIEVES.
This is endemic in the business sector as well. I used to work for a recording studio whose owner thought it ok to buy one copy of audio software, and then download illegal cracked copies to install in the other multiple computers in the company.
An anonymous tip to the business crime section of the local police department set him straight, and cost him a small fortune, much much more than the software he should have bought legally. We need teeth in the copyright law like this for the theft of music as well. Posted 11/01/08 at 9:34 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
SAP making a play for on-demand e-tail CRM?
Business software giant SAP has acquired Praxis Software Solutions as it attempts to weave on-demand applications into its offerings. Technology from Praxis will be incorporated into SAP Business One, a business management product aimed at small and medium-sized companies, to help them set up online stores and deploy customer relationship management software via the internet. The two key elements that SAP is gaining from its long-time partner are Praxis' NetPoint Commerce and NetPoint Focus applications. The first is an ecommerce package that offers customisable shopping-cart and customer support functions, designed to handle data access for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer needs on a single website. It integrates pricing and inventory data originated from the SAP Business One System.
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Friday 6th October
Fame TV aims to broadcast all video submissions live on air within 15 minutes of the user submitting the content. The public will have full control over what they see on screen and can vote via SMS for the clips they want to view. If a piece they dont like is playing, they can vote it off screen and choose the next clip to air.
Back to top Two Way TV and Yomego get interactive
Yomego, the entertainment division of DA Group, has teamed with Two Way TV to enable TV viewers to create personalised animated avatars and have them broadcast, play games and chat on TV. The platform, created by the two companies, is targeted at broadcasters who want to create strong interactive communities around their brands and programmes. Online, viewers can create their own personal digital identity in the form of an animated 3D avatar.
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