Microsoft bought Skype in May 2011 for $8.5 billion, replacing their Windows Live Messenger with it. In September 2009, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced the acquisition of 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from eBay, which attributed to the enterprise a market value of $2.92 billion. In September 2005, eBay acquired Skype for $2.6 billion. įirst released in August 2003, Skype was the creation of Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, in cooperation with four Estonian developers.

As of March 2020, Skype was used by 100 million people on a monthly basis and by 40 million people on a daily basis.

Skype is available on various desktop, mobile and video game console platforms, and is operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft. It also has instant messaging, file transfer, debit-based calls to landline and mobile telephones (over traditional telephone networks), and other features. Skype ( / s k aɪ p/) is a proprietary telecommunications application that specializes in providing VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. Videoconferencing, VoIP and Instant messaging

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