Microsoft's price is about $ 7,000,000,000 to complete the acquisition of Skype deal

According to several foreign media reports, Microsoft is about to complete the acquisition of Internet phone company Skype. The Wall Street Journal said the acquisition amount of more than seven billion U.S. dollars, while the New York Times claimed that the amount of 8.5 billion.

According to informed sources, the acquisition of the relevant consultation is carried out on Monday night, but this acquisition has not completely settled, do not rule out the possibility of occurrence of misfortune. Microsoft and Skype declined comment.

If this success of the acquisition, Skype 70 billion from the acquisition will allow the purchase price as the amount of Microsoft's 36-year history with the acquisition of the highest. Microsoft's traditional approach is to avoid large amount of acquisitions. In 2007, Microsoft Zengyi $ 6,000,000,000 acquisition of online advertising company aQuantive, but many current and former Microsoft executives have agreed that after 60 billion purchase price is too high. Previously, Microsoft give up to 48 billion U.S. dollars to buy Yahoo, Microsoft executives were also relieved that end, Yahoo's current valuation proved to have only 240 billion U.S. dollars.

It is reported that Microsoft is currently working to expand its consumer market, if the acquisition of Skype will have a high brand awareness. Microsoft has invested heavily in developing its search engine marketing and Bing improvements. In recent years, Microsoft has won a number of areas of the search engine market share, but Google still control 65% of the U.S. search market.

Sunday, news that Skype will announce this week, some form of significant transactions, the fastest possible on Monday. The report said, Skype's lawyers and other executives weekends late into the night to do the preparation of important news release. Earlier there was news that Facebook and Google to seek cooperation with skype, but apparently the information related to this announcement Facebook outside of the company and Google.

2005, eBay to 2.6 billion acquisition of Skype, then abandoned in 2007, Skype, and 70% of the shares sold by Silver Lake, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board formed investment consortium.

Skype set up 8 years, but has not profitable until December 31, 2010, Skype also carrying $ 686,000,000 in long-term debt. 2010, Skype's revenue was 8.6 billion and operating profit of 2.64 billion U.S. dollars, loss of $ 7,000,000
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