Oct 01, 2010
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Facebook and Skype
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Facebook and Skype
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Facebook and Skype
Under the partnership, Facebook users will be able to sign into their Skype through their Facebook account. Those users would then be able to text message, use voice chat and video chat with their friends on Facebook from within Skype. Soon an announcement regarding this is expected in few weeks.
The partnership will be able to link 560 million Skype users with 500 million Facebook members.
"The partnership will likely step up pressure on Google, which is battling Facebook for Internet users' attention and last month moved to integrate voice calling into its Gmail service," the report added.
Search engine giant is also trying to make its services “more social” as it aims to get people to spend time on it rather than on the social networking site.
A Journal quoted a person familiar with Facebook-Skype project saying that eventually enabling in-browser voice and video chat on Facebook would be “logical progression” to the partnership.
