

The issue was uncovered earlier this year by a team of researchers from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), MPI-SWS in Germany and INRIA in France and included Keith Ross, Stevens Le Blond, Chao Zhang, Arnaud Legout, and Walid Dabbous. Microsoft, which owns Skype, says they are working on the problem. The vulnerability can expose your location, identity and the content you're downloading. In 2012, the company generated RMB17 billion in revenue FITG owns over 2,000 patents.Researchers have found a flaw in Skype, the popular Voice-over-Internet-Protocol service which allows users to make video phone calls and internet chat with their computers. It has extensive experience in the industry and employs over 15,000 people to provide products and services, including digital publishing, broadband, IDC, IT services and hardware manufacturing. Guangming Daily Newspaper Group has successfully run joint ventures with McCann Erickson and Lintas Group.įounder Information and Technology Group (FITG) is one of the core business units under the Founder Group. Its news portal gains over 85 million page views daily.

Guangming Daily is one of the most prestigious newspapers in China targeted at intellectuals and academia and has a daily circulation of 650,000. Its business spans newspapers, magazines and a news portal. Guangming Daily Newspaper Group is a state-run news and publishing group. is a joint venture between Guangming Daily Newspaper Group and Founder Information and Technology Group (FITG), which aims to develop the mobile internet businesses, and expedite the merging of media and information industries. Guangming Founder Information Technology Co. Update: Skype tells us that its new website in China is, while it provided some background on GMF (bear in mind this is a fact sheet written by the companies themselves: Its competition most notably includes Tencent’s WeChat service - which has the majority of its 500 million-plus registered users in China - and also other messaging apps such as China Televom’s Yixin and Alibaba’s Laiwang. That’s an ambitious goal and, though well established worldwide, Skype is up against a number of mobile-first services that enjoy prominence in China.

Nonetheless, Skype says its new Chinese partner has “a rich understanding of mobile technology…that will pave the way for us to enrich real communications in China.” There’s not a lot of information about GMF and its business either. Skype says the new software will offer “a better experience,” but it’s not clear whether there will be new features in the GMF-managed service and how it will differ from the TOM-Skype experience, which was often criticized for surveillance.
