Comment on Skype for China Has Been Handed over to Microsoft by Ren

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Earlier this month Tom Online, the distributor and operator of Skype for China, announced that Microsoft who acquired Skype from eBay in 2011 would take over the Skype China on Nov. 24th (announcement in Chinese). The current revenues from Skype are unknown for Tom Online delisted from the NASDAQ and Hong Kong Exchange in 2007. Referred to as MSN in China, Microsoft Messenger has been losing users and market share in China in recent years. Peter Zheng, now vice president of Tencent, used to be the head of MSN Space, the blogging service of Microsoft Messenger China. He left MSN China for Tencent for he felt the former didn’t do right operating such a service in China.