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Jean-Michel reports on his blog that very serious discussions are being held between the 2 companies. I feel it's too early an exit for Skype founders & investors. A commercial partnership would make sense at this stage as a great service brought to Yahoo! users.
Of course there is some overlap on the IM side, and in the community management side. But hey... Yahoo! phagocyted Flickr before it had even the chance to come out of beta ...
Stay tuned.
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