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Troll_Whisperer on 01 June 2011
yo_john117 said:
Troll_Whisperer said:

Microsoft better have a clear strategy with the purchases of Skype and Nokia, because if they don't I only see them bleeding money out of this. Skype has always been losing shitloads of money and Nokia is a sinking ship right now.

I can't see what they're doing with this, but obviously they have some intentions with these companies. We'll have to wait and see.

Hmmm maybe they are planning to put those two together to make something really awesome.

Skopia?



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Seece on 01 June 2011

$19B is just too much of a risk now, after a $8.5b buyout of Skype.



 

kitler53 on 01 June 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
yo_john117 said:
Troll_Whisperer said:

Microsoft better have a clear strategy with the purchases of Skype and Nokia, because if they don't I only see them bleeding money out of this. Skype has always been losing shitloads of money and Nokia is a sinking ship right now.

I can't see what they're doing with this, but obviously they have some intentions with these companies. We'll have to wait and see.

Hmmm maybe they are planning to put those two together to make something really awesome.

Skopia?

Nope.



yo_john117 on 01 June 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
yo_john117 said:
Troll_Whisperer said:

Microsoft better have a clear strategy with the purchases of Skype and Nokia, because if they don't I only see them bleeding money out of this. Skype has always been losing shitloads of money and Nokia is a sinking ship right now.

I can't see what they're doing with this, but obviously they have some intentions with these companies. We'll have to wait and see.

Hmmm maybe they are planning to put those two together to make something really awesome.

Skopia?

Lol 



Kynes on 01 June 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
yo_john117 said:
Troll_Whisperer said:

Microsoft better have a clear strategy with the purchases of Skype and Nokia, because if they don't I only see them bleeding money out of this. Skype has always been losing shitloads of money and Nokia is a sinking ship right now.

I can't see what they're doing with this, but obviously they have some intentions with these companies. We'll have to wait and see.

Hmmm maybe they are planning to put those two together to make something really awesome.

Skopia?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Mk-Skopje.ogg

 

Maybe they want to create an empire a la Alexander the great.



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Troll_Whisperer on 01 June 2011
Kynes said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
yo_john117 said:
Troll_Whisperer said:

Microsoft better have a clear strategy with the purchases of Skype and Nokia, because if they don't I only see them bleeding money out of this. Skype has always been losing shitloads of money and Nokia is a sinking ship right now.

I can't see what they're doing with this, but obviously they have some intentions with these companies. We'll have to wait and see.

Hmmm maybe they are planning to put those two together to make something really awesome.

Skopia?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Mk-Skopje.ogg

 

Maybe they want to create an empire a la Alexander the great.

I think you're onto something here.



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arcane_chaos on 01 June 2011

seems like MS is on quite the buying spree

Hey MS, mind throwing some money at arcane_chaos's gamer fund?



Jumpin on 01 June 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
yo_john117 said:
Troll_Whisperer said:

Microsoft better have a clear strategy with the purchases of Skype and Nokia, because if they don't I only see them bleeding money out of this. Skype has always been losing shitloads of money and Nokia is a sinking ship right now.

I can't see what they're doing with this, but obviously they have some intentions with these companies. We'll have to wait and see.

Hmmm maybe they are planning to put those two together to make something really awesome.

Skopia?


Correction! Microskopia



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Jumpin on 01 June 2011

Anyway, 19 Billion is really low.... insanely low if they mean US Dollars.  Nokia made nearly 13 billion Euros alone on their Q4 mobile phone sales. This just does not seem to be true at all. To put it into perspective, it is like someone buying Nintendo for 4 billion Euros (or 7 billion US dollars).



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