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Skype ringtones ring out eBay stamp |
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 27 April 2006 |
For internet telephony provider Skype, it was only a matter of time before the influence of its new owner, giant online retailer eBay, started to shine through. The announcement that Skype is about to enter the ringtones market smacks of ebay monetising the lucrative cross-selling opportunities presented by Skype's enormous database of nealy 100 million users of its free and paid telephony services.
Skype has signed licensing deals with three major music companies
including EMI, Warner/Chappell and Sony/ATV, which will allow Skype
users worldwide to download ringtones and eventually full songs of some
of the most popular artists in the world. So in future, forget about
that horrible 1950s sounding ring when you get a Skype call - listen to
Madonna or Green Day instead.{moscomment}
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