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The biggest obstacle was finally overcome, now that the American Antitrust and the Federal Trust Commission ( FTC ) in particular have given the go ahead, the acquisition by Microsoft in the VoIP companySkype is almost a done deal.
In a month and $ 8.5 billion is realized the deal of the century, with the creation of a software platform and Voice over IP integrated and complete required (apparently) directly from Bill Gates

But in the days when even the U.S. Department of Justice has given the go-ahead to marriage, they begin the first purges within the company: David Gurl , Vice President and General Manager of Skype for Business, Don Albert, Doug Bewsher, Christopher Dean, Russ Shaw, Anne Gillespie, Allyson Campa and Ramu Sunkara , this founder of the newly acquired Qik , have left the team.

The reason may lie in an attempt to lower the possible benefits for the severance of those managers in the coming months would have been fired anyway for a corporate reorganization.

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