Facebook and Skype are about to announce a major alliance of long-range that would allow Facebook users to send SMS and call your Facebook friends via Skype, connecting with the ‘Facebook Connect’ as well as video calls.The purpose of Facebook, according to the sources of financial daily Wall Street Journal is to create a network that brings together more closely the user community with communications. Facebook does not have to launch a video call service and VoIP telephony own despite that he had tested the video chat functionality within the network itself.
Skype has 124 million Internet users use it once a month and 560 million registered users. Number that would be reinforced by the 500 million users of Facebook, which would now be able to use Skype directly. The news of the new alliance will be available in the latest version of Skype 5.0, which is expected to exit the beta phase in a couple of weeks.
The agreement could give a boost to the IPO being prepared for Skype and Facebook, and Skype is more popular than the network outside the United States. The partners have described the alliance as a union “strategic unified communications and collaborative partnership, focusing on business and personal videoconferencing.
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