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Sometimes web-based services and sites get sold for eye-catching amounts of money. But Microsoft's proposal to buy Skype for $8.5 billion - yes, that's a "b" - caught even the most jaded techies ...

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Skype is riding a VOIP wave it helped create with free computer-to-computer calls, but it's far from being alone in the fast-growing industry Skype users in the U.S. and Canada can call free to ...