Social networking giant Facebook and Internet telephone Queen Skype are on plans to combine their communications services, according to media reports. If its comes true Facebook users able to sign into Skype through Facebook accounts. Those users would then be able to text message, voice chat and video chat with their friends on Facebook from within Skype, the Wall Street Journal reported, expected within the next few weeks. The partnership would link Skype’s 560 million registered users with Facebook’s 500 million members. According to comScore, U.S. Internet users spent 41.1 billion minutes on Facebook in August, surpassing Google’s 39.8 billion minutes for the first time. The Journal quoted a person familiar with the Facebook-Skype project as saying that eventually enabling in—browser voice and video chat on Facebook would be a “logical progression” to the partnership.
Skype distributes free software that allows people to make free video calls to other Skype users over the Web. It also has a paid service offering low-cost calls from Skype to landlines or cellphones.(PTI)
