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Microsoft Says Goodbye to Skype: Teams Will Take Its Place

Microsoft Says Goodbye to Skype: Teams Will Take Its Place

1 March 2025, 11:58 | di FIRSTonline editorial team | 0
On May 5, 2025, Microsoft will permanently shut down Skype, the historic communications platform it acquired in 2011. With the move to Teams, users will continue to use chat and calls through the Microsoft app, but with advanced features for…
Skype and Whatsapp, EU crackdown

Skype and Whatsapp, EU crackdown

August 17, 2016, 9:34 | di FIRSTonline editorial team | 0
The European Commission is studying a reform of the rules on telecommunications to protect privacy and consumer safety and to avoid distortions of competition: the new rules expected for September.
Skype doesn't work: here's how to use it with the web version

Skype doesn't work: here's how to use it with the web version

21 September 2015, 10:25 | di FIRSTonline editorial team | 0
Although the desktop platform and the app for smartphones and tablets have been experiencing a blackout since this morning, it is still possible to use Skype. We explain how
Skype blackout: from 10,20 it is offline

Skype blackout: from 10,20 it is offline

21 September 2015, 9:28 | di FIRSTonline editorial team | 0
The causes of the blackout of Skype which does not work from 10,20 am are not yet known - The Skype team has informed on Twitter that they are working to resolve the problem as soon as possible
Skype: phone calls with the translator in Italian

Skype: phone calls with the translator in Italian

April 9, 2015, 10:09 pm | di FIRSTonline editorial team | 0
There is also Italian among the languages ​​for which the Skype Translator software will guarantee simultaneous translation of video calls - From today you can call all over the world speaking in Italian and with the certainty that your interlocutor…
EU Court, green light for Microsoft-Skype merger: appeal rejected

EU Court, green light for Microsoft-Skype merger: appeal rejected

December 11, 2013, 11:00 pm | di FIRSTonline editorial team | 0
"The merger does not restrict competition - reads a note - neither in the video calls market for the general public nor in that of communications for businesses".
Tomorrow will be 10 years since Skype made the world smaller

Tomorrow will be 10 years since Skype made the world smaller

August 28, 2013, 5:31 | di Mr. Livingstone | 0
Today Skype, launched by two telecommunications engineers (one Swedish, the other Danish) at the end of August 2003, has 300 million users, who use two billion minutes of video calls every day
Skype (Microsoft) wants to buy the start-up GroupMe

Skype (Microsoft) wants to buy the start-up GroupMe

August 22, 2011, 11:56 | di FIRSTonline editorial team | 0
The Internet telephony group, bought a few months ago by the giant Microsoft, wants to buy GroupMe, the mobile messaging specialist.
Apple launches Skype for iPad today also in Italy

Apple launches Skype for iPad today also in Italy

August 3, 2011, 15:51 | di FIRSTonline editorial team | 0
Skype for iPad has finally been released for free in the App Store as a standalone application. It must be downloaded as a separate application for iPad.

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According to the Financial Times, which cites a Bank of America study, the braces by the three star players in last week's matches cost bookmakers dearly. The most played match so far was England vs. Croatia.

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