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Microsoft agrees to buy Skype for $8.5B

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NEW YORK

The software giant is offering to buy the web chat and video conferencing company for $8.5 billion in cash.

It's the biggest deal in the software maker's 36-year history.

The sellers include eBay and private equity firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz.

Skype boasts about 663 million users worldwide.

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