Buzzkill: Report Says Cisco Source Denies Skype Rumors (Updated: NY Post Weighs In)Buzzkill: Report Says Cisco Source Denies Skype Rumors (Updated: NY Post Weighs In)
The first push-back against the rumored acquisition.
August 31, 2010
The first push-back against the rumored acquisition.
Wednesday update: Most of us skip the New York Post when we're looking for news of the communications industry--there's just not that many headless bodies turning up in datacenters--but that august publication is now reporting that Cisco did put out feelers about acquiring Skype, and Bloomberg, which ran the denial story yesterday, picked it up today.
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Oh well. This article in Barron's quotes a "source close to Cisco" as saying that Cisco hasn't been talking to Skype about a possible acquisition.
You could parse the denial to say that there may not have been "talks"--yet. And you can pick which anonymous source you prefer--TechCrunch's original one, that started this whole thing, or the Barron's wet blanket.
It still seems like an acquisition that makes sense for Cisco, or potentially other players such as Microsoft or IBM. We'll see what happens.
