All good things come to an end. Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype on May 5, nearly 15 years after the tech juggernaut acquired the VoIP European provider from eBay for $8.5 billion. Jeff Teper, ...

RIP Microsoft is planning to shut down the once-dominant video calling application, Skype. The app was highly popular among internet users in the early 2000s but has suffered persistent neglect from ...

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The tech giant says it is making this move because it is changing the platform's focus from a P2P service to cloud-based services. Support for Skype on iOS 8, Android 4.03 and Windows 10 mobile will ...

Once the go-to app for video chats, Skype seemed to go off the boil somewhere along the way and these days faces tough competition from a mountain of messaging apps that now incorporate their own ...

Others have tried and failed to knock Snapchat off its perch, and now Microsoft is throwing its hat into the ring with a new service that uses Skype as its backbone. It’s called Skype Qik, and it ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Skype, Microsoft Corp's internet phone call and messaging service, has disappeared from app stores in China including that of Apple Inc , indicating the latest setback for a ...