Skype Technologies S.A.
News and overview for Skype Technologies S.A.
Investor Group to Acquire Majority Stake in Skype [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 80 days 19 hours 11 minutes ago
...significant minority interest in Skype PRNewswire MENLO PARK, Calif...Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Skype Technologies S.A. and an investor group led by...purchase a 65 percent interest in Skype Technologies from eBay for approximately...
Canada now owns a piece of Skype
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 5 days 2 hours 6 minutes ago
Canadians now own a piece of a cutting-edge telephony company thanks to Tuesday s purchase by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The pension plan, along with three U.S. private-equity firms, paid US$1.9-billion to eBay Inc. for a 65% stake in Skype Technologies, the popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) service that allows users to make free video and voice calls over the Internet.
Skype CEO says focus on mobile, corporate push
Reuters | 38 days 4 hours 52 minutes ago
TALLINN (Reuters) - Internet telephony firm Skype, a unit of eBay, will focus on growing its mobile and corporate business next year while further developing its key offerings to consumers, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
Demand grows for niche translators
Los Angeles Times | 4 days 11 hours 24 minutes ago
Do you understand both German and waste management? How about Farsi and nuclear power? Russian and physics? Specialty interpretation jobs are growing.
CPP board, Sterling snap up Livingston
Canada.com | 15 days 17 hours 3 minutes ago
The private-equity arm of Canada's largest pension fund is continuing to prove that it has a big appetite for new deals
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MarketWatch | 14 days 17 hours 59 minutes ago
The message was that MEMS technologies have indeed taken root and may be the target of the next generation of high tech venture investments after we're done with "green."
Latest Nortel Software Release Offers SMBs New Levels of Simplicity and Unified Communications [Press Release]
MarketWire | 17 days 16 hours 13 minutes ago
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/03/09 -- Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can obtain productivity, cost-savings and the investment protection critical to success in today's business environment with new unified communications-based (UC) software from Nortel(1) (OTCBB: NRTLQ). The latest software release 5.0 for Nortel's award-winning
Lenovo Launches All-in-One Business PC
PC Magazine | 18 days 3 hours 42 minutes ago
Lenovo on Monday launched the company's first all-in-one PC for the SMB market, the ThinkCentre A70z.
TED Conference Announces 103 Fellows for TEDIndia 2009 [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 66 days 14 hours 40 minutes ago
...high-tech campus of Infosys Technologies Ltd. The TEDIndia Fellows...surprises. Preconference, there's a full day of TED University...3708 c: (213) 948-3100 skype: lauragmg laura@gallowaymediagroup...cell,+1-213-948-3100, skype: lauragmg, laura@gallowaymediagroup...
TEDIndia Announces List of Inspiring Speakers from Across the Globe [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 71 days 16 hours 11 minutes ago
NEW DELHI, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ --
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Light Reading - VOIP - Skype Settles Litigation - Telecom News Wire
Light Reading | 10 days 19 hours 43 minutes ago
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) today announced that the investor group led by Silver Lake, which had previously entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Skype from the company, has reached a settlement agreement with Joltid Limited and Joost N.V. that gives Skype ownership over all software previously licensed from Joltid and ends all litigation currently pending against the investor group and eBay at the closing of the acquisition.
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Light Reading - Fujitsu Submits Cloud API Specs - Telecom News Wire
Light Reading | 19 hours 10 minutes ago
TOKYO -- Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has submitted its cloud API specification to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)(1) and joined the leadership board of the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator(2). Fujitsu will actively participate in further standardization work in DMTF and implement this specification on its next generation IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) platform, which will be made available in the second half of 2010 in Japan.
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Light Reading | 12 hours 26 minutes ago
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Company Overview
| Company: | Skype Technologies S.A. |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Messaging, Conferencing & Communications Software |
| Website: | http://www.skype.com |
Skype Technologies knows that the idea of using your computer to make free telephone calls isn't just mere hype. The company's popular Web-based software allows users to make phone calls using the Internet. Calls are free when made PC-to-PC, and users can make calls to landlines or cell phones at typically much lower rates than traditional phone services. Cofounders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis launched Skype in 2003; two years later they sold the company to eBay for $2.6 billion. Unable to leverage Skype with its other offerings, in September 2009 eBay agreed to sell a 65% stake in Skype to a private investor group lead by Silver Lake Partners for $1.9 billion in cash.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 381.8 (2007) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 0.0 (2007) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 0 () |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | 0.0 () |
| Number of Employees | 0 (0) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 0.0 (0) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |