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title: "Skype Technologies: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Skype Technologies was a telecommunications company headquartered in Luxembourg City, whose chief business was the development and marketing of the video chat and instant messaging computer software program Skype, and various Internet telephony services associated with it. Microsoft purchased the company in 2011, and it had since then operated as their wholly owned subsidiary; as of 2016, it was operating as part of Microsoft's Office Product Group."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-skype-technologies
type: Organization
wikidata: Q246125
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_Technologies
website: https://www.skype.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Skype Technologies

> Skype Technologies was a telecommunications company headquartered in Luxembourg City, whose chief business was the development and marketing of the video chat and instant messaging computer software program Skype, and various Internet telephony services associated with it. Microsoft purchased the company in 2011, and it had since then operated as their wholly owned subsidiary; as of 2016, it was operating as part of Microsoft's Office Product Group.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: Luxembourg
- Founded: 2003-01-01
- Headquarters: Luxembourg
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://www.skype.com
- Employees: 500 (as of 2010-01-01)
- Also known as: Microsoft Skype Division
- Industries: software industry

## Accounts

- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SkypeIT
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skype

## Key people

- Niklas Zennström, founder (Swedish entrepreneur)
- Janus Friis, founder (Danish entrepreneur)
- Jaan Tallinn, founder (Estonian investor and programmer (born 1972))

## Revenue

- 2009-01-01: EUR 160 million (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Parent: [Microsoft](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-microsoft.md)

## Products

- Skype
- Voice over IP

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Skype Technologies, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-skype-technologies#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q246125, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_Technologies

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