Some of the top executives of Skype Technologies were terminated in a move that will lessen the expenditure for those executives after Microsoft completes its buyout of the company.

According to an email from Skype’s spokesperson, the company, like any other practical association, continually evaluates its group organization to bring its users the most excellent products. as part of a current internal change, Skype has made some changes in its management.

Bloomberg, mentioning anonymous sources, said that Vice President Don Albert, Russ Shaw, David Gurle and Christopher Dean, Anne Gillespie, who manage the human resources of the company and Doug Bewsher, the Chief Marketing Officer of Skype, were terminated from the firm.

Bloomberg also reported that the timing of terminating of those executives will mean that the stock options will be worth less than if they stayed until the final deal between Microsoft and Skype for $8.5 billion. Later on Monday, Business Insider reported that the terminations did take place, but they were not made with the purpose of declining the amount of money compensated to those let go, as where guessed.

Furthermore, Henry Blodgett, the editor and Chief Executive Officer of Business Insider, said that executives at private firms such as Skype count on impartiality as a main part of their payment. It will set an awful standard if companies such as Skype investor Silver Lake terminated executives before the acquisitions closed to save themselves a few more money by avoiding some added stock strength.

Blodgett also said in his report that the investor of the company told him that Tony Bates, the Chief Executive Officer of Skype, had finally finished a careful review of the executive team of the company and that he had made the changes to show the team he wanted.

Microsoft reached an authorized deal with HTC, a Taiwanese smartphone maker, where HTC must compensate the giant software $5 for each handset of Android that it produces.

The deal also includes that HTC still pay the Microsoft even if they do not make it to the market. A report issued by an analyst from the Citigroup exposed the special agreement between the giant software and the smartphone maker over a disagreement involving Microsoft patents.

According to Horacio Guiterrez, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, HTC and their company have a long history if commercial and technical partnership and the deal today is an example of how business leaders can reach commercial deals that address logical property.

In addition, Microsoft already took legal action for both Barnes & Noble and Motorola over alleged patent breach for the use of Google’s Android operating system. Moreover, Motorola now completely creates Android tablets and smartphones while Barnes & Noble uses Android in its e-book reader, Nook.

The Seattle Times said that the Citigroup report also said that the software giant is seeking between $7.50 and $12.50 for every unit made to settle alleged breach of Microsoft patents. Based on an estimate that HTC has delivered 30 million Android gadgets, Asymco computes that Microsoft has seen $150 million in income from Android devices. With the software giant selling two million Windows Phones licenses, the revenue of Windows Phone comes in at $30 million.

Rumors of Microsoft purchasing Nokia was still roaming around the Internet without any clear explanations from the software giant, Microsoft.

As of now, Microsoft is not yet giving any explanations or statements with regard to the rumors that are spreading on the Internet about the purchasing of Nokia for $80 billion before the end of 2011.

Recently, Microsoft announced their partnership with Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of Blackberry, and added up the acquisition of Skype by the company for $8.5 billion. After that, Microsoft announced that it is having a partnership with Nokia as well. Analysts said that Microsoft is in pursuit of acquiring as much power as possible to battle with Google’s Android Phones and to Apple’s iPhone.

According to Bill Gates, Microsoft has not been left behind by mobile revolution and their recent acquisitions and partnerships means that they are still on track. However, they did not make any statements about the acquisition of Nokia.

Based on the reports, the rumors was started by a Russian Blogger saying that Microsoft and Nokia are in advanced negotiations in the purchasing of the Software Giant, Microsoft, to the Finnish handset maker, Nokia.

A lot of analysts reacted to the rumors. According to Collin Gillis, an analyst in BGC Partners in New York, buying Nokia is not a good deal for Microsoft. He said that Microsoft can already get all the benefits that it needs from Nokia via the software deal so there will be no bigger benefits when they purchase the whole company. He said that Microsoft knew this fact so going beyond the deal and purchasing Nokia is a reckless decision for the Software giant.

Gillis said that the rumors about the purchasing deal of Microsoft and Nokia will still be considered as rumors until the Software giant make a clear statement.

Microsoft acquired Skype, a well-known VoIP platform, for $8.5 billion and the representatives of both companies said that Microsoft will have complete access to mobile and desktop applications of Skype.

In the end, Microsoft will use Skype to support power in-house products like Xbox 360 and the fleet of Windows phones. Tony Bates, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Skype, stated on the official blog of the company that once the deal closes, Skype will become a new business division of Microsoft.

Bates also stated that it is a thrilling day for all of them in the company and they have taken an important phase towards recognizing their vision to make the world a better, more associated place. Fair enough, the deal of Microsoft and Skype is surely advantage for the latter. However, some analysts asked if it is also better for Microsoft.

On the other hand, Peter Bright said that the acquisition cost is an exceptional amount of money to invest on a firm that has been long struggled for productivity. He also said that it is difficult to believe that it is really the most-effective way of having access to the technology of VoIP and telephony. Bright added that Microsoft can create equivalent telephony communications for much less like what Google is doing for its Google Voice.

In addition, other analysts have stated that Microsoft acquired Skype in order to maintain the service from being purchased by another technology giant. Google, for example, had apparently expressed its interest in Skype as lately as this month. Larry Dignan of ZDNet argues that Avaya and Cisco can also have acquired the company, leaving Microsoft with one main-league headache.

Dignan wrote that the reality is that Microsoft is compensating up for Skype because it is $8.5 billion game of ward off. He added that the agreement and its cost makes sense.

Microsoft, U.S. software giant reported on Thursday its quarterly net income increased 31 percent, but Apple beat the software company for the first time in 20 years.

Microsoft stated that its net income jumped 31 percent to $5.23 billion on the third quarter of its fiscal year while profits climbed 13 percent to $16.43 billion in what the software firm called a combination market for personal computers.

Income of 61 cents a share was better than the prediction of the analysts of Wall Street of 56 cents a share. On the other hand, gadget-manufacturer Apple quarterly net income of $5.99 billion last week on profits of $24.67 billion, the first time it has reported a greater net income than Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Washington, since March 1991.

Last year of May, Apple, the manufacturer of Macintosh computer, iPad, iPhone and iPod, ousted Microsoft as the biggest technology firm in the United States in terms of market capitalization.

In addition, Microsoft stated that Windows 7 was the quickest selling operating system in the history with 350 million licenses traded although the profits for the fragment was down to four percent in the quarter to $4.4 billion, in line with the trends of personal computers.

According to Peter Klein, the Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft, they brought strong results when it comes to their financial status in spite of a mixed environment of personal computer, which shows the extent and strength of their businesses.

Furthermore, Klein also said that customers are acquiring Kinect, Xbox and Office 2010 at great rates, and businesses of all volumes are buying the applications and platforms of Microsoft. Bill Koefoed, the general manager of Microsoft for investor relations, said in a meeting call with financial analysts that the development of business of personal computer was nine percent in the quarter.

The top executives of Toyota Motor and Microsoft announced a joint venture on Wednesday to widen smart-car technology to 170 nations starting in 2012.

The two giant companies will start bringing details with regard to the latest plug-in and electric vehicles of Toyota using the cloud computing platform of Microsoft’s Windows Azure. The relation will allow owners to do such works following the electric charge on their automobiles to stream music and connect to information services while on the go.

Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motors, stated in a joint videoconference with Steve Ballmer Webcast, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft at Redmond, Washington, that the objective is to gain consumer smiles. The two top executives are sitting jointly to broadcast their joint venture demonstrating the significance they put on the project and its potential.

Efficient and quick charging is the key to make electric automobiles practical and Toyota claimed that communication with the service is one of the keys to get that. In addition, developing a latest channel to influence its savings in cloud computing will give Microsoft a much-needed victory in the clash for supremacy when it comes to mobile technology.

Toyoda added that he envisioned the relations will let an owner of Toyota to run his car as an application through a mobile gadget or personal computer. Connecting the automobile with a local service to schedule charging when prices are lowest will be one of the most and preliminary useful applications for the utility.

The president of Toyota Motor also added that the drivers can schedule charging from a mobile gadget, call up a map on the rush and even program their cars to turn on the air condition on their house before arrival. The service will be managed as Toyota Media Service, in which Toyota and Microsoft are spending one billion yen or almost $12 million.

Microsoft wins over other developers after delivering 1.5 million downloads of a tool kit to make other applications for Windows Phone 7.

The 1.5 million downloads of the tool kit to make applications for Windows Phone 7 is a sign that the operating system is winning against other developers.

According to the blog post of Microsoft in March 31, 2011, almost 36,000 developers registered to their company. The company said that 11,500 applications are available and an average of 12 downloads a month.

Microsoft will have to marshal the efforts of developers to have a shot to retake the market share that they lost to Apple’s iPhone and handsets running on Google’s Android Software. Microsoft shipped more than 2 million Windows Phone 7 units last quarter. However, analysts said that the number declared was too disappointing compared to other developers. According to customers and developers, Microsoft failed to provide enough details on the holdup that happened this month.

According to Al Hilwa, an anayst at market research firm IDC, it is a long term process to get more phones out there and it is also a long term process to get out updates in a timely fashion. However, the developer side is one of the bright spots for this platform. The analyst also said that they are obviously not at the same scale as Androir or Apple but they are doing well factoring the maturity of the Windows Phone platform.

Reuter’s source revealed Microsoft’s plans to create a new subscription-based TV service for its Xbox video game console in an effort to beat Google TV.

According to Reuter’s report, the software company has held talks with some media companies, aiming to license TV networks for new online pay-television subscription kind of service through their Xbox device.

Microsoft’s most recent explorations after their investments in WebTV and MSNBC is to redefine entertainment using a technology that will offer a lower cost option for an expensive TV-subscription’s payment.

The latest plan of the company is to offer interactive features that will help engage viewers to social media, and the used of motion-gesture technology to allow viewers in changing channels through the wave of hands and voice prompt.

One of the scenarios that Microsoft put under consideration to launch a fresh TV service for its Xbox video game console to establish a service of virtual cable operator. This kind of service will charge subscribers with a monthly payment necessary to have an access through the use of Xbox game console to networks such as Fox, ESPN, CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS based on people who are familiar with Microsoft’s plans.

There are some things that Microsoft wanted to offer with their clients, like of the capability of watching a show and at the same time allowing viewers to send messages with friends using its game console.

Microsoft is now facing an increasingly crowded industry, where in Google already launched its very own Google TV, a Web-TV service.

Microsoft finally announcing the official release of the two most exciting window phones called the Kin 1 and Kin 2. These two devices are being promoted as Window Phones and they are fundamentally based on most similar to the underpinnings of Windows Phone 7. These phones are distinctive and giving you a complete different experience because the total user interface is design to Kin having a heavy social media slope, a design browser (revealed based on the Zune’s browser) that is stunningly, zero support for third-party apps. The highlights are capacitive with aid for multi-touch that you can pinch as well as zoom in the browser; however, there is no aid for in-browser Silverlight of Flash.

The Microsoft Kin 1 – they typically call this phone the “Turtle”, it is essentially a curved-square slider having a QVGA display, 4GB internal storage, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and a complete QWERTY keyboard. Meanwhile, The Microsoft Kin 2 is the phone known as the “Pure”, boosting the wager with HVGA display, and a more conventional landscape QWERTY slide form factor. It as well highlights an 8-megapixel camera and 8GB internal storage, but alternatively, the experience is about similar as what is acquired on the Kin 1. Both of these phones have Wi-Fi as well as Bluetooth added to their 3G cellular radios. What is also valuable to Microsoft is pinpointing that internal storage certainly is not a big deal with Kin phones because the whole video and photo collection that is captured using the onboard camera is synchronized with the bottomless online storage, which allow you to access the complete collection from the phone anytime by browsing the thumbnails. If you also want the total content, you can actually download it. These kin phones come packed with a desktop web experience that is totally based on Silverlight for viewing as well as sorting simply concerning all the main items that you can discover on the phone such as social network status updates, contacts, images and more.

One of the focus of Microsoft for Kin phones is the completely current and different, crazy UI that is based on blocky, monochromatic elements, simple text, and zoomed-in, stylized pictures. You can always navigate on the Internet for more added information about these latest craze Window Phones.