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Bookmark or Share- Niklas Zennström - WikipediaZennström is best known for founding Skype Technologies, a telecommunications company. In October 2005, Skype was acquired by eBay for €2.1 billion ($2.6 billion) with the potential to earn further performance-based bonuses up to €1.2bn.
- Skype Technologies - WikipediaSkype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden, [6] having its headquarters in Luxembourg with offices now in Berlin, Frankfurt, Tallinn, Tartu, Stockholm, London, Palo Alto, Prague, [7] and Redmond, Washington.
- Skype - WikipediaSkype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark. [20] The software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, and Toivo Annus. [21] Friis and Annus are credited with the idea of reducing the cost of voice calls by using a P2P protocol like that of Kazaa. [22]
- Skype | Video Calling, VoIP & Messaging Software | BritannicaLuxembourg -based Skype Technologies, founded by Niklas Zennström of Sweden and Janus Friis of Denmark, first introduced the software client in 2003. The number of registered users of Skype was about 50 million in 2005 and increased more than 10-fold to more than 600 million just five years later.
- The rise and fall of Skype - CNBCIn the 2000s, Skype grew quickly as a peer-to-peer service for making calls and exchanging instant messages. Microsoft bought it in 2011 for $8.5 billion. It has lost daily users since the ...
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