Skype

Last year, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg bought messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion dollars in a deal that many questioned at the time. Since purchasing the app, Facebook has been working to improve its functionality and grow its user base. So far, WhatsApp has more than...

Shares of magicJack VocalTec Ltd (NASDAQ: CALL) fell more than 4 percent Wednesday morning. The Street Sweeper published a negative report on magicJack, noting the company's "magic" is "vanishing quicker than street magician David Blaine can make a new quarter disappear." The publication added the...

This month, Anheuser Busch Inbev SA (ADR) (NYSE: BUD) formally agreed to buy SABMiller in a $105.5 billion deal, one of the largest in the history of Wall Street. The new company is expected to dwarf competitors in the global market and give Anheuser Busch a favorable position in the beer space. By...

While Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) has taken much of the regulatory heat over the past few days due to antitrust charges from the European Commission, the Internet giant isn't the only company that should be worried about the bloc's tightening regulations. EU Telecoms is pushing for...

Before you put on your Halloween costume and head to the nearest monster mash, take a moment to peruse these terrifying mergers and acquisitions. 5. Sprint And Nextel When Sprint Corporation (NYSE: S) merged with Nextel, the two companies had hoped to create the third-largest wireless carrier...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) is among several financial institutions that have poured $66 million into Symphony, a new communications and workflow tech company. The firm was built with the acquisition of Perzo, a private communications tool from David Gurle. Gurle was appointed CEO of...

Activist investor Carl Icahn had hoped to bring change to eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) when he nominated two of his own employees to the Board. eBay rejected that nomination and released a statement from independent director and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee Chairman Richard T. Schlosberg,...

In January, activist investor Carl Icahn called for eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) to spinoff PayPal. Since then, he has repeated his stance several times. Commenting last week at a conference in Silicon Valley, PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel was asked if he thought PayPal should be...

Craig Barrett, former Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) chairman and CEO, went over education reform on CNBC's Squawk Box Tuesday morning with a specific emphasis on raising the current standards in order for the United States to remain internationally competitive. He also discussed Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB)...

John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), went over the value of the synergies between eBay and PayPal in response to activist investor Carl Icahn's suggestion to have the latter separate from its parent company with claims that it'll accelerate PayPal's growth, on CNBC's Squawk on...

2014 isn’t off to a good start for two of the world’s favorite apps. Reports have emerged that Skype and Snapchat were hacked. First Snapchat. The company has confirmed that the popular photo messaging app was hacked and the perpetrators posted a database containing the user names and phone...

According to The Information (subscription required), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) plans to come out with a set-top box called Nexus TV sometime in the first half of 2014. The new device, Geekwire said, would compete with Apple's Apple TV, Microsoft's Xbox One, and Amazon's rumored-but-so-far-delayed...

The Chinese language version of Techweb (complete with a not-so-subtle graphic depicting Skype’s emergence as the new sheriff in town) noted Friday that Chinese mobile Internet company TOM Online will turn Skype operations in mainland China over to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) November 24. The Next...