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发帖数: 2 | 1 With Microsoft having confirmed its acquisition of Skype,
sources tell TechCrunch Europe that Redmond outbid its closest
rival, Google, by almost two-to-one. Meanwhile, Facebook is said
to have never been in the running.
According to a source who claims knowledge of talks held between
all parties, Google came in second at a price of $4B, while
Microsoft will be paying $8.5B. This suggests that Redmond is
paying significantly over the odds for Skype, although only time
will tell if it turns out to be a smart deal. What is known is
that had Microsoft been aware of the price that Google was
willing to pay it almost certainly would have come in lower.
Meanwhile, according to our sources, Facebook was never actually
in the running to buy Skype and may have simply been
inadvertently used to turn up the heat on Microsoft to push
through a deal. Facebook was never approached, says one source,
but that this didn’t stop rumors that the social networking site
was “sniffing around”, a tactic often employed to close a deal.
The potential give-away is that the story circulating at the
time put the emphasis on Facebook mulling an offer rather than
Skype reaching out. Had the rumor been stronger, along the lines
of “Skype is in talks with Facebook”, it could have caused a
problem as the Microsoft discussions were far enough down the
line, says our source, that Skype would have certainly have
entered into a lockout, having accepted a deal in principal.
In fact, GigaOm’s Om Malik goes even further, suggesting that
Google wasn’t that serious either. “I also don’t believe that
Facebook and Google were serious buyers”, he says, citing the
existence of Google Voice. “In essence, I feel that Microsoft
was bidding against itself.”
from : http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/10/did-microsoft-
overpay-for-skype-hell-yes-%E2%80%94-by-4-5-billion/ |
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