[technology taskforce] CNBC : What Happened to Skype ?

[Carlton Samuels]

..as the world turns eh.

I still love the Skype sound but hardly use it now. Cannibalization of the
user base by competing Teams by MS plus the tenuous link to complementary
goods in the MS world is the writing on the wall.

CAS

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On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 10:22, Dev Anand Teelucksingh via ttf <
ttf at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

> At its height, Skype – a telecommunications app founded by Scandinavian
> entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, and Estonian engineers Ahti
> Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn and Toivo Annus – had 560 million
> registered users. In 2005, just two years after its launch, the app was
> acquired by eBay. Later, a majority stake was sold to private equity firm
> Silver Lake. Microsoft then acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion. While
> it was revolutionary in its time, Skype’s journey has been full of ups and
> downs. Now that Microsoft has rival Teams, the future of Skype is
> uncertain. CNBC explores the company’s past, present and what’s next for
> the company.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc5MNTKLnns
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