299 posts and columns on Skype
Cisco Loses Microsoft-Skype Challenge in EU
Microsoft’s $8.5 billion takeover of Skype is not anticompetitive, says the EU.Norad Santa-Tracker Is Now 3-D, Touch-Enabled and Claymationized, Courtesy of Microsoft
Since 1955, children of all ages have tracked Santa’s global route with the help of Norad’s radar, satellites and jet fighters.Four Years Later, How Does the Xbox’s Kinect Stack Up to Its Original Vision?
The new Kinect is central to the Xbox One’s marketing. How does it compare to the original “product vision” video?Skype Marketing Exec Steele Heads to Jive in Top Strategy and Marketing Role
The social business platform grabs former Microsoft and Yahoo vet.News Byte
Microsoft Names Exec to Top Skype Post
Microsoft has named Gurdeep Singh Pall to replace the departing Mark Gillett as corporate VP for Skype, as well as its Lync communications product. Gillett, who took a job as head of value creation at private equity firm Silver Lake, had been responsible for Skype’s product, engineering and operations worldwide, duties that will now fall to Pall. An experienced engineer, Pall was most recently CVP of Information Platform & Experience in Microsoft’s new Applications and Services division. Before that, he was CVP of the Office Lync & Speech group.Departing Skype Exec Gillett to Become Head of “Value Creation” at Silver Lake
Mystery managed, as the British exec might say!News Byte
Top Skype Exec Mark Gillett Departs Microsoft
According to an internal memo sent this morning to employees, top Skype exec Mark Gillett is leaving Microsoft. Sources said that Gillett — who is corporate VP for Skype, as well as its Lync product — has another job he is headed to, although the memo did not mention where he was going. Gillett, who is responsible for Skype’s product, engineering and operations globally, has been with the online telephony company for several years, including before Microsoft bought it. Previous to that, he worked at private equity giant Silver Lake in Europe.News Byte