When Skype debuted in 2003, it was the first time I remember feeling that an individual app—and not just the broader internet—was radically disrupting communications. Thanks to its implementation of ...

Microsoft has cut two of Skype’s central premium features: credit and custom phone numbers. Instead of credits, the company is now pushing subscriptions — priced regionally and globally, depending on ...

More than 20 years after Skype became the go-to video platform, Microsoft is shutting down the app. Amid a rapidly changing atmosphere in technology, people around the world have switched to using ...

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On Friday, Microsoft announced that the 21-year-old calling and messaging service will shut down May 5. The software company is encouraging Skype users to migrate to its free Teams app. Skype won ...

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Veteran video call app Skype will apparently be fully switched off by May this year, according to a string of code in the ...

Sometimes web-based services and sites get sold for eye-catching amounts of money. But Microsoft's proposal to buy Skype for $8.5 billion - yes, that's a "b" - caught even the most jaded techies ...