Welcome to the Tech Main Ride Home for Monday, November 19th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Skype calls on Amazon Echoes, Tumblr disappears from iOS,

Facebook is on a war footing,

iPhone sales have Storm Clouds Gathering,

and the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Explain.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Microsoft has announced that it's bringing Skype calling to Alexa enabled

devices this week including Skype out which lets users call mobile and

landline phones.

So Echo Shows will now have the ability to video chat

and once you hook things up in the settings,

the whole Echo range of smart speakers will now allow you to say Alexa call

John on Skype and if he's in your Skype contacts there you go it should be

noted that this is just the latest move in the increasing partnerships between

Amazon and Microsoft, Alexa and Cortana. Xbox one just got Alexa support in

September. There is now an Alexa app for Windows 10, which in theory

brings Alexa to any PCs running Windows 10 and just this weekend. Microsoft

began selling Amazon Echo Devices in its retail stores.

So there was an ongoing mystery all weekend after the Tumblr app disappeared from the

iOS App Store.

Tumblr later said it was working to resolve an issue unspecified, but the speculation online was that the app had been removed

for inappropriate content. If you're not familiar Tumblr has long been a site and a

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