Skype never really made sense in a world where Microsoft wants everyone to use Teams. I don’t know for sure how this sort of ...

Microsoft was too busy adding emoji and trying to compete with the rise of WhatsApp, FaceTime, Snapchat, and Facebook ...

Founded in 2003 by Nordic entrepreneurs, Skype at one time was owned by eBay Inc. and was in the hands of a private ...

Microsoft announced Friday it will be “retiring” Skype in May, nearly 22 years after the web-based phone and video calling ...

Skype is among the world’s most long-lasting digital brands. But other mobile apps took off faster, and Skype didn’t see the ...

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

Microsoft confirmed Friday that it is officially retiring Skype in May and consolidating its consumer communication offerings ...

When Microsoft acquired Skype, it was buying into a massively popular app with over one billion downloads and hundreds of millions of users.At the time, Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, declared, ...

By 2011, when Microsoft bought it from eBay, Skype had about 170 million users worldwide, then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in an event announcing the planned merger. “The Skype brand has ...

Microsoft is shutting down what was once a pioneer in videoconferencing. Skype, the video-calling service that was once so ...