Facebook, Skype, Set to Announce Partnership

The video chatting war seems to have begun, with Facebook joining up with Skype to counter Google's +Hangouts feature.

It appears as though Facebook and Skype are about to strike a deal that would bring the video chatting service to the social networking site, just as Google Plus gets ready to launch. With Facebook CEO and semi-evil genius Mark Zuckerberg urging users to prepare for an “awesome” new feature on July 6, Skype, which was recently purchased by Microsoft for a whopping $8.5 billion, could become a fixture on the world's largest social network. The beta version of Google's social network, Google Plus, debuted last week to warm reviews, especially for its +Hangouts feature that allows for multi-user video chat.