| Status | Acquired by eBay on 9/05 for $3.13B1 |
| Website | www.skype.com |
| Category | Web |
| Address |
2 Stephen Street London, W1T 1AN, GBR |
| Founded | 8/03 |
| Total | $18.8M |
| Series A, 2003 3 Bessemer Venture Partners | |
| Series B, 3/04 4 Draper Fisher Jurvetson Index Ventures | $18.8M |
Skype is a peer-to-peer Internet telephony service that is free for Skype-to-Skype calls. The service also allows Skype users to call mobiles and landlines, and vice-versa. Skype has special charge plans for non-Skype-to-Skype calls. Skype is expanding from its traditional computer-based calls to mobile applications.
Skype was founded by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis who were also the founders of the file sharing application Kazaa and the peer-to-peer television application Joost. Skype is different than other VoIP services in that it uses a peer-to-peer model instead of a server-client model.
Its main competitors include GizmoProject, PeerMe and Jajah.
| Skype |
| Skype Mobile |
| Skype Voicemail |
| SkypeIn |
| SkypeOut |
