Russian company almost bought ICQ
 

I read that the deal will be sealed by the end of this year. Do you think this will change anything?

More people trying to sell you money making systems via ICQ spam.

getting a fuck of a lot of authorization requests from there lately, pain in the ass:2 cents:

Hmm, that's interesting :)

no icq is dead

Maybe they'll make it a usable product without having to instantly download hacks to fix the many problems.

depends if they make the icq numbers shorter or not.

i canned ICQ way to slow.

probably part of some plot to get our credit card numbers.

If you just stand near a Russian, they can magically suck your credit card info into their laptop.

If they do it ICQ will be dead

There goes icq, spam beyond belief :helpme

Does aol still own it?

If that happened, I get the feeling "i sale short icq" would run rampant around the world.

ime to switch to skype!

Yes, but they are selling it.

I dont know why the adult industry still hangs on to shitty ICQ... It sucks

Of 33mil ICQ users, 8mil are Russian I was reading the other day. Here I think. If those numbers are true, it'd be far from dead, more like they'd just be bringing it home to one of it's biggest user bases.

I'm sure Russians are only closely followed by the adult industry as ICQ's top user demographic. :1orglaugh

No offense to our Russian webmasters here, but I steer clear of anything that has to do Russians and the mix of computers, banks, software or cars.

i heard google was also toying with the idea of snapping it up, apparently they are having trouble gaining mindshare in russia