REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011. The tech ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MAY 10: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (L) shakes hands with Skype CEO Tony Bates during a news conference on May 10, 2011 in San Francisco, California. Microsoft has agreed to buy ...
Founded in 2003 by a group of engineers in Tallinn, Estonia, Skype was a pioneer in making telephone calls using the internet ...
By 2011, when Microsoft bought it from eBay, Skype had about 170 million users worldwide, then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ... Ballmer said. Skype was still considered high-tech in 2017 when ...