

Two years later, in September 2005, eBay acquired Skype for $2.6 billion from the Nords.

Today, it features a centralized Azure service system for the communication platform.Ī Swede and a Dane, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, supported by a group of Estonian developers, released Skype in August 2003. Skype was founded back in 2003 and the original version of the app featured a peer-to-peer communication system. They are mostly known for their video call feature. Skype is one of the pioneers of the VoIP industry.

