EU approves acquisition of Skype by Microsoft
时间：2011-10-08 07:56:12
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BRUSSELS, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) --- The European Commission on Friday gave the green light to Microsoft's acquisition of voice and video communication provider Skype, thus removing the last hurdle1 in the process.
According to a statement released by the Commission, "the deal would not significantly
impede2 effective competition in the European Economic Area (The EU plus Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway) or any substantial part of it."
The Commission explained that it found that in the area of consumer communications, the parties' activities
overlap3 in video communications, where Microsoft is active through its Windows Live Messenger.
However, the Commission considered that there were no competition concerns in this growing market where numerous other players, including Google, were present.
Skype was bought by eBay in 2005 at the price of 4.1 billion U.S. dollars, and sold out at 2.75 billion U.S. dollars in 2009. Microsoft declared to take over Skype at a cost of 8.5 billion dollars on May 10, 2011.
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