Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011, which had helped spark a ...

“Skype calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption,” Skype’s homepage read in 2004.

Microsoft revealed the inevitable and announced it would finally kill Skype. So let's take a walk through the history.

While Silicon Valley had its PayPal Mafia, Estonia came to pride itself on a Skype Mafia—an influential circle of ex-Skypers whose successes have defined the modern Estonian tech landscape.

Get ready to bid goodbye to Skype. In a press release, Microsoft announced it would shut down its once-popular video conferencing app on May 5. The company encouraged current users to transition to ...

After more than 20 years, the video calling service that started it all is finally retiring in May as Microsoft plans to replace Skype with Teams once and for all.

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying connected in the mid 2000s.

Teamsters Local 25 over the weekend reported a tentative six-year agreement covering more than 900 workers at a Stop & Shop ...

Microsoft has announced the retirement of its long-standing communication service, Skype, set for May 5. The tech giant is ...

By 2005, Skype had already reached 50 million registered users, demonstrating its rapid global adoption. Online auction site eBay acquired Skype in 2005 for approximately US$2.6bil, but the ...

Skype was founded in Estonia in 2003 in by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, and in 2005, the service was purchased by eBay for $2.6bn. However, the investment didn’t perform as well as ...