[technology taskforce] CNBC : What Happened to Skype ?

[Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google]

I've done more than a few Skype calls (voice primarily) recently to TT
businesses who refuse to use WhatsApp or similar. Flawless and still quite
inexpensive.

On Mon, 3 Jul 2023, 7:08 pm Carlton Samuels via ttf, <
ttf at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

> ..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:
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>> 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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