Skype Technologies (also known as Skype Software , Skype Communications , Skype Inc., and Skype Limited) is a telecommunications company headquartered...
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Skype (/skaɪp/) is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for IP-based videotelephony...
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Skype Qik /kwɪk/ was a video messaging service by Skype. It was created by the company, Skype Technologies, who acquired Qik. The service, offered for...
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Skype is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system developed by Skype Technologies S.A. It is a peer-to-peer network where voice calls pass over the...
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The Skype protocol is a proprietary network used for Internet telephony. Its specifications are not publicly available, and all official applications...
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Skype offers a number of features based around calling (both free and paid), messaging (including instant, voice and text messaging (SMS)), video chat...
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acquisition of Skype Technologies in May 2011, Microsoft added interoperability between Skype and Microsoft accounts, allowing Skype—which had features...
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interfered with or banned access to the telecommunications application software Skype. The use of the website has also been restricted in other ways. After issuance...
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GroupMe (category Skype)
GroupMe is a mobile group messaging app owned by Skype Technologies, a subsidiary of Microsoft. It was launched in May 2010 by the private company GroupMe...
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Tony Bates (category Skype people)
set-top box business, and subsequently as Chief Executive Officer of Skype Technologies. He published a number of IETF RFCs and holds a number of patents...
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Microsoft (category Technology companies established in 1975)
Communications for $16 billion in March 2022, and its acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011. As of 2015[update], Microsoft is market-dominant...
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Microsoft mobile services (redirect from Skype WiFi)
their acquisition by Skype Technologies. Qik, Inc. was originally a video messaging company, it was acquired by Skype Technologies in 2011, and was eventually...
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Niklas Zennström (category Skype people)
investment consortium that bought back Skype Technologies from eBay and re-joined the Skype board. In May 2011, Skype was purchased by Microsoft for $8.5 billion...
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and Skype Technologies S.A. (now Microsoft). Its main developers are Jean-Marc Valin (Xiph.Org, Octasic, Mozilla Corporation, Amazon), Koen Vos (Skype),...
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The purchase price was $75 million in cash. Rdio was launched by Skype Technologies founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis on August 3, 2010. At the...
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Skype Translator is a speech to speech translation application developed by Skype, which has operated as a division of Microsoft since 2018. Skype Translator...
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authors list (link) On2 Technologies (2005-12-01). "On2 Technologies Codec Offers High Quality Video to Skype". On2 Technologies. Archived from the original...
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Timeline of social media (category Technology timelines)
of Data". The New York Times. Agencies (28 August 2013). "Happy Birthday Skype: Even monkeys use it now". Archived from the original on 2020-10-28. Retrieved...
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Janus Friis (category Skype people)
Skype. In September 2005, he and his business partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B. Friis has maintained ownership interest in Skype...
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EBay (category National Medal of Technology recipients)
website in the United Kingdom. In October 2005, eBay Inc. acquired Skype Technologies for $2.6 billion. ProStores was an e-commerce website hosting company...
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List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft (redirect from Calista Technologies)
boost its search technology. On May 10, 2011, Microsoft announced its acquisition of Skype Technologies, creator of the VoIP service Skype, for $8.5 billion...
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been a Director of Legal & Public Policy Affairs at eBay, PayPal and Skype Technologies. Capparelli speaks four languages fluently and she has a PhD from...
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months because of poor sales. On May 10, 2011, the company acquired Skype Technologies for US$8.5 billion (~$11.4 billion in 2023). Following the release...
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Communication Technologies: Social Sciences Research and Training: A Report by the ESRC Programme on Information and Communication Technologies, ISBN 0-86226-179-1...
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Microsoft Teams (category Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on science and technology)
Microsoft-operated business messaging and collaboration platforms, including Skype for Business and Microsoft Classroom. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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approximately $202 million since being founded in 2014. Starship Technologies was founded by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Ahti Heinla. Initially, it was...
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regardless of desktop or mobile. Examples of such messaging services include: Skype, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts (subsequently Google Chat), Telegram...
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Josh Silverman (category Chief executives in the technology industry)
and technology executive who is chief executive officer of Etsy. He is known for co-founding the invitation website Evite and being CEO of Skype (2008–10)...
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later-stage companies in technology and tech-enabled businesses across the operations, energy, and resources industries. After the sale of Skype to Microsoft in...
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Skype for Business Server (formerly Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Lync Server) is real-time communications server software that...
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