Skype CEO Tony Bates talks about Skype’s leadership in video calling and recaps some important milestones over the past few weeks. He highlights today’s news about Facebook video calling powered by Skype (see ), and shares Skype’s broader multi-platform strategy to bring video calling everywhere - the desktop, mobile phones, TVs and the Web.

Just a few weeks ago, Skype announced the ability to IM your Facebook friends or to ‘Like’ and comment on a Facebook status directly from Skype. Today, we are excited to announce that Skype’s partnership with Facebook goes even further, as we are now making it possible to video chat with your friends right from within Facebook. This is an exciting step for us as it represents Skype’s first big step on the Web, and because we know this has the potential to unlock even more conversations and make the experience on the Web even more social. The partnership with Facebook makes fantastic business sense for Skype and gives us an unprecedented opportunity to offer Skype’s voice and video calling products to more than 750 million active users on Facebook. Together, we’ve collaborated to create a great user experience — with Skype providing an optimized version of its software and Facebook embedding the Skype calling experience deeply into their site, allowing Facebook users to enjoy the many benefits of video calling.

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