Teams and Zoom stole (almost) all the spotlight
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 10:01 am
Skype is definitely not what it once was. The popular video calling app that made a splash in the 2000s by connecting friends and family without forcing them to pay expensive phone bills is now a shadow of its former self.
In 2005, when Skype's popularity was at its list of hong kong cell phone numbers peak, eBay announced the acquisition of the popular video calling tool. The transaction did not go according to plan, however, and the investment group Silver Lake ended up acquiring a majority stake in Skype. Six years later, in 2011, Microsoft entered the scene and paid $8.5 billion to snap up the video calling app .
However, even though it is backed by a tech giant of Microsoft's calibre, Skype is currently a 2000s diva in decline . During the pandemic, people enthusiastically threw themselves into the arms of Zoom and Teams, relegating the app that once popularised video calling to the background.
"Skype is still a tool that is primarily seen today for one-on-one conversations ," Jim Gaynor, vice president of research at Directions at Microsoft, told CNBC .
In 2005, when Skype's popularity was at its list of hong kong cell phone numbers peak, eBay announced the acquisition of the popular video calling tool. The transaction did not go according to plan, however, and the investment group Silver Lake ended up acquiring a majority stake in Skype. Six years later, in 2011, Microsoft entered the scene and paid $8.5 billion to snap up the video calling app .
However, even though it is backed by a tech giant of Microsoft's calibre, Skype is currently a 2000s diva in decline . During the pandemic, people enthusiastically threw themselves into the arms of Zoom and Teams, relegating the app that once popularised video calling to the background.
"Skype is still a tool that is primarily seen today for one-on-one conversations ," Jim Gaynor, vice president of research at Directions at Microsoft, told CNBC .