Pakutanga yakabudiswa muna August 2003, Skype akasikwa Swedish Niklas Zennström uye Danish Janus Friis, pamwe chete Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, uye Jaan Tallinn, Estonians uyo yakatanga ari backend kuti aishandiswawo mumhanzi-kugoverana chikumbiro Kazaa. Muna September 2005, eBay akawana Skype nokuda $ 2.6 billion. Muna September 2009, Silver Lake, Andre Hessen Horowitz, uye Canada Pension Investment Plan akazivisa kutora zvachose 65% pamusoro Skype nokuda $ 1.9 bhiriyoni kubva eBay, izvo kunzi kuti bhizimisi musika ukoshi $ 2.92 bhiriyoni.
$2.92 bhiriyoni