September 2002 |
investment from Draper Investment Company and at that time, original name was Skyper. |
April 2003 |
Skype.com and Skype.net domain names registered. |
August 2003 |
First public beta version released. |
September 2005 |
SkypeOut banned in South China. |
October 2005 |
eBay purchased Skype (Oct 14). |
December 2005 |
videotelephony introduced. In April 2006, Number of registered users reaches 100 million. |
October 2006 |
Skype 2.0 for Mac is released, the first full release of Skype with video for Macintosh. |
December 2006 |
Skype announces a new pricing structure as of January 18, 2007, with connection fees for all SkypeOut calls. Skype 3.0 for Windows is released. |
In March 2007 |
Skype 3.1 is released, adding some new features, including Skype Find and Skype Prime. Skype also released a 3.2 beta with a new feature called Send Money which allows users to send money via PayPal from one Skype user to another. |
August 2007 |
Skype 3.5 for Windows released with additions such as video in mood, inclusion of video content in chat, call transfer to another person or a group, auto-redial. |
August 15, 2007 |
Skype 2.7.0.49 (beta) for Mac OS X released adding availability of contacts in the Mac Address Book to the Skype contact list, auto redial, contact groups, public chat creation, and an in-window volume slider to the call window. |
August 16 / August 17, 2007 |
Skype users unable to connect to full Skype network in many countries. Skype reports the system-wide crash was the result of exceptional number of logins after a Windows patch reboot . |
November 2007 |
the controversial move was announced that Skype users having London numbers would lose them after December 20, 2007. |
January 30, 2008 |
Skype released for the Sony PSP hand-held gaming system. |
March 13, 2008 |
Skype 2.0 for Linux released with support for videoconferencing. |
July 9, 2008 |
Skype 4.0 Beta is released, changing Skype into a full-screen application. |
September 1, 2008 |
Skype discontinues its SkypeCast service, without explanation. |
September 8, 2008 |
The seventh season of the U.S. syndicated game show Who wants To Be A Millionaire premieres, with a new Ask the Expert lifeline that uses Skype for video chat. |
September 30, 2008 |
Skype 4.0 Beta 2 released, introducing 'Compact mode', after user criticism of the new default full-screen mode. |
October 2, 2008 |
Analysis reveals TOM-skype sends content of text messages and encryption keys to monitoring servers. |
November 2008 |
Skype added internal monthly and daily usage caps on their SkypeOut subscriptions advertised as "Unlimited". Many users and observers have commented on the high rate of dropped calls, and the difficulty of reconnecting dropped calls. These are most common for video calls and free (PC to PC) calls. |
February 6, 2009 |
Skype 4.0 is released. |
March 2009 |
Skype launched Skype for SIP, a service aimed at business users. At the time of launch around 35% of Skype's users were business users. |
April 14, 2009 |
eBay announced plans to spin off of Skype through an initial public offering in 2010. |
August 1, 2009 |
Joltid files a motion with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to terminate a licensing agreement with eBay which allows eBay (and therefore Skype) to use the peer-to-peer communications technology on which Skype is based. If successful, this may cause a shutdown of Skype in its current form. |
August 27, 2009 |
Skype releases an update to their more than one year old Linux-client. |
September 1, 2009 |
eBay announces sale of 65% of Skype to a consortium of Index Ventures and Silver Lake Partners. |
Early September 2009 |
Skype shuts down the Extras developer program. |
Late November 2009 |
eBay completes sale of 70% of Skype to a consortium comprising Silver Lake Partners, CPPIB, Andreessen Horowitz, and the original founders. |
In 2010 |
a report by TeleGeography Research Skype-to-Skype calls accounted for 13% of all international call minutes in 2009. Out of the 406 billion international call minutes a total of 54 billion were used by Skype calls. |
May 13, 2010 |
Skype 5.0 beta released, with support of group video calls with up to four participants. |
May 28, 2010 |
Skype releases updated client for the Apple iPhone. The update now allows Skype calls to be made over a 3G network. The service is free until end of 2010 when the user will have to subscribe to a mobile subscription plan. No plans have been detailed as of May 31 2010. |
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