The announcement, reported by the Associated ... which is now the preferred platform for businesses and personal users. The shutdown of Skype is primarily due to its declining popularity, as ...

So when Microsoft announced that it would shut down its pioneering video-and-voice calling service next month, Griffin felt ...

With Skype fading into the background, Microsoft officially announced its shutdown. As part of the announcement, Microsoft’s president of collaborative apps and platforms, Jeff Teper ...

Following Microsoft’s announcement to sunset the platform, many users online expressed a slew of reactions—mostly shock, but in various forms. “Wait…skype was still a thing? Thought it ...

The conventional wisdom—preserve brand equity, retain talent, maintain the innovation culture—sounds logical but is a flawed ...

Skype’s shutdown comes 14 years after Microsoft bought the service for $8.5 billion in cash, marking the company’s largest ever acquisition at the time. Microsoft integrated the service into ...

This comes after an intrepid person stumbled over a curious string in the latest Skype for Windows preview. This string seemed intended to notify the user about the impending shutdown, telling ...

Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011, which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online. The tech giant said Friday ...