An average of about 8.8 million customers per month, or just over 1 percent of the user base, pay to use Skype services. Most people use Skype's free calling services, which has made it difficult for the service to make money since entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis started the company in 2003. Skype users made 207 billion minutes of voice and video calls last year. and private equity firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz.Ībout 170 million people log in to Skype's services every month, though not all of them make calls. The company said it will continue to support Skype on other software platforms. Microsoft said it will marry Skype's functions to its Xbox game console, Outlook email program and Windows smartphones. said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy the popular Internet telephone service Skype SA for $8.5 billion in the biggest deal in the software maker's 36-year history.īuying Skype would give Microsoft a potentially valuable communications tool as it tries to become a bigger force on the Internet and in the increasingly important smartphone market.
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