Ovum’s Future View Daily is off the mark when it comes to Google buying Skype. Andy gives his reasons, and here is what I think, and what Mark Evans has to say on the matter. Someone close to the company recently told me – Google is in a build not buy mode, and all that money they are raising, well because they can. To paraphrase, the good doctor, sometimes money is just money.
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