STRATEGIC ACQUISITION SKYPE Michael Osypenko Veranika Zdanovich Ruslan Samchuk Denis Solyan MAIN GOALS OF PROJECT • Analyze Microsoft’s latest acquisition of Skype • Understanding Skype’s and Microsoft’s business models and their product portfolio respectively • Microsoft’s reasoning behind the acquisition • How Microsoft got best benefits from the acquisition • To analyze data support of acquisition • Make your own critical conslusions KEY FACTS AND FIGURES 10th May 2011: Microsoft acquirers
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There is an increasing need to boost market penetration of the product early on in its life cycle due to ever changing technologies and shorter life span of the product. There are various techniques which help achieve this task –first mover ‚ Pre-announcement‚ constant innovation etc. By reaching the market first a firm enjoys distinct advantages like the second mover doing only 71 % as well in market share in fmcg goods and 76% as well in industrial products. These advantages stem from the fact
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4 Chart 1: Mobile Phone Traffic 4 Mobile Web vs. mobile App 6 Picture 1: Skype Website via iPhone (Screenshots) 7 Picture 2: Sitemap Features via iPhone 8 Table 1: Mobile Web vs. Mobile App
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M&A (Refresher) Microsoft - Nokia Deal SML -829 ; Mergers & Acquistion Course DMS ‚ IIT Delhi Group no-1 Pawandeep Singh Maniktala | Mayank Lau Nokia CEO Stephen Elop (left) and Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer shake hands at the announcement of Microsoft’s Acquisition of Nokia for $7.2 billion M&A - Microsoft - Nokia Deal Industry View : ● Nokia was one of many cell phone manufacturers that struggled ● Apple‘s iOS and Google ‘s Android gained dominance of the smartphone market and displaced cellphones
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Skype‚ which was founded in 2003‚ has reinvented the way that we communicate‚ share pictures and now even negotiate business deals. If you have been using Skype already to stay in touch with family and friends the new innovations for business are a real game changer. Skype with the enterprise tools from Microsoft Lync will now bring you the securities‚ compliance and control that Microsoft Lync bought to you. The user friendly features of Lync
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IMPROVEMENT TO SKYPE Skype should undergo ongoing changes to constantly improve the reliability‚ scalability‚ and functionality of the everyday Skype experience. Peer to Peer (P2P) in a mobile Skype relied on their users’ computers to do much of the heavy lifting. These computers were typically desktop PCs connected both to power outlets and to the Internet at all times and provided the processing power and connectivity to support Skype’s peer-to-peer (P2P) capabilities. In today’s devices and
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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Case of Microsoft and Nokia Luís Franco Hilário Advisor: Peter Tsvetkov Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degrees of MSc in Business Administration‚ at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa SEPTEMBER 2011 1 Abstract Due to the financial downturn and the emergence of new devices in the global handset market has led companies to change their business strategies. Indeed‚ Mergers and Acquisition are considered one of the
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) Describe the environment in which Skype competes based on the three characteristics of high tech markets. The three characteristics of high tech markets are 1. Market Uncertainty 2. Technological Uncertainty 3. Competitive Volatility Lets analyze all the above three for the Skype case: 1. The market uncertainty occurs as consumer needs are keep changing‚ neither the technology producer nor consumer are able to predict the market trend. Consumer will always enquire for more advances
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From KaZaA to Skype By the year 2002‚ Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis not only invented KaZaA‚ but also entered the Internet telephony market known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) with their new service‚ Skype. Creators of KaZaA avoided the illegal trading issues that Napster had to deal with by creating a FastTrack Software. This enabled PCs logged on to KaZaA to find and share files with each other using supernodes. KaZaA could not be legalized for illegal trading since it kept no track
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Skype | ENTP 6390 – Business Model Innovation | 1. 2. Skype’s business model is illustrated in Business Model Generation (98-99)‚ but the identification of customer segments and the value proposition are rather brief and generic. Prepare a more detailed Business Model Canvas for Skype based on the information provided in the case. Key Partners * Payment providers (Visa‚ Master‚ PayPal) * OS developers (Windows‚ Linux‚) * Third party websites which provide downloadable
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