Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype

rexjoec writes "Cisco is making a bid for Skype. The deal, if successful, would derail a planned initial public offering from Skype and redraw the battle lines in the lucrative market of video communications." The rumored price is $5B.

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Re:Cisco Planning to Squash Another Competitor

[gtall]

A whole trillion, eh? So if the U.S. government took it all this year, they'd still be $400 Billion in the hole...and $1.4 Trillion next year. Me thinks that's not an enormous amount of money in the relative scheme of things.