Facebook is in talks with Skype Technologies to bring ‘video calling’ to its social network, according to Emirates 24|7 reports. This will give Internet users in the UAE a way around the current Skype ban in the country. This kind of cooperation will ramp up competition with Apple Inc., which introduced the feature on its iPhone in June, and with Google Inc. in August. According to the source, video calling between friends on Facebook was first discussed by the two companies last year.

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