Microsoft to buy Skype in $8.5bn deal

  • 12 years ago
Microsoft has announced it's making its biggest ever acquisition - it will buy the Internet phone service Skype for $8.5bn dollars.

The software is so popular, it's now become a verb, meaning to make an internet call or video chat.

Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler reports from New York with more on the deal.

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