Cisco plans to buy Skype before its IPO. The goal is to close the transaction before Skype comes to the U.S. stock market, valued like its valuation. Cisco would have the opportunity to enhance its WebEx conferencing system to support the largest teleoperator world online.
Thus, the movement continues to Skype. Just two weeks ago the company founded by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis announced his intention to go public, and before they are successful, the networking giant Cisco may take ownership of the company.
TechCrunch According to a source categorized as very reliable, the firm offer has been made. There is no official statement from the companies involved, a common position on major negotiations even more reasonable when it is carrying out the process of public sale of shares.
Cisco's offer would be around 5,000 million dollars, some 3.939 million euros, which would approximate recovery which expects Skype. It would be substantially higher than the 2,750 million dollars paid by eBay in 2005. Then, the link between institutions failed because of poor management and the company recovered original owners.
WebEx integrated Skype Skype is a sweet
for any of the big companies. He has more than 560 million registered users, of which 124 million were connected during the first half of the year. Of these, 40% made video calls.
This is one of the potential benefits of this acquisition. Cisco could integrate technology and benefit the users of Skype for video calling and WebEx online meetings, primarily aimed at businesses. WebEx is one of the features that Cisco plans to compete in the business of the tablets that come with Cius.
Skype is urged to seek new alliances. The announcement of IP voice calls through Gmail is a direct attack on their business model, it competes against the company with more protection and diversification of today.
However, they have no need for suicide movements as the result of business in recent quarters given a mattress to the negotiations. Already
seamediante arrival in the bag or alliances with other technology companies branches, Skype has to take a step forward at a crucial moment in which, for the first time, someone will threaten his throne of Internet calls.
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