Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a microblogging social network, is filled with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots
https://www.theverge.com/... [image] @mxbck@front-end.social : Wow that's fucking bleak. A social network where you're the only human so you can “be the main character” — Consider therapy. — htt...
Instant messaging client ICQ will stop working from June 26, recommends users migrate to messaging platforms from parent company VK; ICQ had 100M users in 2001
ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.
AOL Sells IM Service ICQ To Russia's DST For $187.5 Million
As expected, Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies says it has reached an agreement with AOL (NYSE: AOL) to buy its instant messaging service ICQ for $187.5 million. DST, which has invest...
ICQ Is Back And It Uses Facebook and Twitter
Do you remember ICQ ("I Seek You")? It was one of the first desktop download chat applications and was sold to AOL for $400 million in 1998. Strangely, it fell off the map after the acquisition, but...
The Bids Are In for AOL's Sale of ICQ-It's Down to a “U.N.” of Four Buyers
AOL has taken another step closer to selling off its ICQ instant messaging service, culling seven bids to four “serious” ones, said sources close to the situation. — The price for the service is hov...
AOL Also Likely to Eye Sale of MapQuest-Is Microsoft a Possible Buyer?
Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about AOL's efforts-including hiring investment bankers-to sell its ICQ instant-messaging unit. — But that's probably not going to be the end of the shedding of assets at t...
Fring Enables VoIP Calls Over Wi-Fi for iPhone with Skype Support
Fring has released the iPhone version of their service today as a free download in the App Store. — Fring allows you to chat and interact with others on a variety of networks including Skype, MSN, G...
AOL-Bebo: $850M Deal Closes; AOL Combines Bebo, AIM, ICQ Into People Networks Headed By Shields
It's official—AOL (NYSE: TWX) now owns Bebo, closing the $850 million acquisition roughly two months after making it public. The social media network will not stand on its own; instead …
AOL to Acquire Global Social Media Network Bebo
NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—AOL announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bebo (http://www.bebo.com), a leading global social media network. Together with its AIM and ICQ personal...