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		toddy on July 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook's Three New Products OK, the question I have here is about monetization. Who will get more money from this deal - Facebook or Microsoft/Skype and how? Skype has not been profitable for so many years (although they charge for phone calls and have ads), and I don't see this moving it closer to the goal. Also, if FB allows group video-chat for free why would I pay Skype the subscription fee - I will just call from Facebook.

Zakuzaa on July 6, 2011 [–]

Skype has been profitable, I think.

toddy on July 6, 2011 | [–]

No. Skype lost ~$7M last year and has close to $700M in debt. This was the biggest objection on the price MS paid to acquire it. See http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-acquires-skype/

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