Skype-Facebook partnership: A response to Google (Talk+email)?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/10/04/facebook.skype.partnership/index.html

Social media meets real-time communication? Facebook needs Skype because they do not have a real-time communication network. Skype needs Facebook because they do not have access to their user's email graph (like Google). Its really Facebook and Skype's answer to Google's growing threat to their businesses.