ACQUISITION SKYPE Michael Osypenko Veranika Zdanovich Ruslan Samchuk Denis Solyan MAIN GOALS OF PROJECT • Analyze Microsoft’s latest acquisition of Skype • Understanding Skype’s and Microsoft’s business models and their product portfolio respectively • Microsoft’s reasoning behind the acquisition • How Microsoft got best benefits from the acquisition • To analyze data support of acquisition • Make your own critical conslusions KEY FACTS AND FIGURES 10th May 2011: Microsoft acquirers Skype at a price
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4 Chart 1: Mobile Phone Traffic 4 Mobile Web vs. mobile App 6 Picture 1: Skype Website via iPhone (Screenshots) 7 Picture 2: Sitemap Features via iPhone 8 Table 1: Mobile Web vs. Mobile App
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Skype‚ which was founded in 2003‚ has reinvented the way that we communicate‚ share pictures and now even negotiate business deals. If you have been using Skype already to stay in touch with family and friends the new innovations for business are a real game changer. Skype with the enterprise tools from Microsoft Lync will now bring you the securities‚ compliance and control that Microsoft Lync bought to you. The user friendly features of Lync
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IMPROVEMENT TO SKYPE Skype should undergo ongoing changes to constantly improve the reliability‚ scalability‚ and functionality of the everyday Skype experience. Peer to Peer (P2P) in a mobile Skype relied on their users’ computers to do much of the heavy lifting. These computers were typically desktop PCs connected both to power outlets and to the Internet at all times and provided the processing power and connectivity to support Skype’s peer-to-peer (P2P) capabilities. In today’s devices and
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) Describe the environment in which Skype competes based on the three characteristics of high tech markets. The three characteristics of high tech markets are 1. Market Uncertainty 2. Technological Uncertainty 3. Competitive Volatility Lets analyze all the above three for the Skype case: 1. The market uncertainty occurs as consumer needs are keep changing‚ neither the technology producer nor consumer are able to predict the market trend. Consumer will always enquire for more advances
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From KaZaA to Skype By the year 2002‚ Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis not only invented KaZaA‚ but also entered the Internet telephony market known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) with their new service‚ Skype. Creators of KaZaA avoided the illegal trading issues that Napster had to deal with by creating a FastTrack Software. This enabled PCs logged on to KaZaA to find and share files with each other using supernodes. KaZaA could not be legalized for illegal trading since it kept no track
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Skype | ENTP 6390 – Business Model Innovation | 1. 2. Skype’s business model is illustrated in Business Model Generation (98-99)‚ but the identification of customer segments and the value proposition are rather brief and generic. Prepare a more detailed Business Model Canvas for Skype based on the information provided in the case. Key Partners * Payment providers (Visa‚ Master‚ PayPal) * OS developers (Windows‚ Linux‚) * Third party websites which provide downloadable
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1. Describe the environment in which Skype competes based on the three characteristics of high-tech markets (Chapter 1). Like most Hi-Tech products‚ Skype also has to deal with the three major uncertainties in the form of Market Uncertainty‚ Technological Uncertainty and Competitive Volatility. Market Uncertainty-(1) While Skype has a huge user base by now‚ there are still many people who are uncomfortable about using Skype due to security and quality concerns. (2)Due to proliferation of
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Skype VS AT&T Case Analysis Trinh Nguyen MGMT 599: Strategic Management in Global Environment Dr. Ernesto Escobedo September 21‚ 2012 Background Skype was found in 2003‚ headquarter in Luxembourg‚ and now is a division of Microsoft Corporation. Skype provides voice‚ video calling‚ instant messaging‚ and short messaging services through Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP). With the increasing internet users‚ in nine short years‚ Skype has 124 million active users
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The company that I am going to discuss in this case study is the IT firm ‘Microsoft’. Microsoft was originally founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. It is a public multinational corporation which is headquartered in Redmond‚ Washington in the USA. Its aims are to develop‚ manufacture‚ license and support a wide range of products and services that are related to computing through its various product divisions. Microsoft is an example of a well-known monopolistic power. A monopoly exists when
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