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☆ What happened to Skype?
  + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Sydney Boyo | Jordan Novet | Jeniece Pettitt | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWhat happened to Skype? At its height, Skype – a telecommunications app founded by Scandinavian entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, and Estonian engineers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn and Toivo Annus – had 560 million registered users. In 2005, just two years after its launch, the app was acquired by eBay. Microsoft then acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion. Now that Microsoft has rival Teams, the future of Skype is uncertain.
Persons: Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis, Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, Toivo Annus –, what's Organizations: Skype, eBay, Microsoft, CNBC Locations: Toivo, Silver
☆ Europe is producing more startup 'mafias' than ever despite tech rout
  + stars: | 2023-05-24 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
The average time taken for a startup to hit unicorn status in Europe is now just seven years, according to Accel. Of the 353 "unicorn" companies in the region, 221 have spun out 1,171 new tech-enabled startup companies as employees at these firms left to start up their own ventures, Accel said, citing Dealroom data. Startup mafias have existed for decades. These "mafias," which are firms started by employees of other tech firms, have historically led to the creation of some of the largest tech companies known today. The largest cohort of newly established startup mafias comes from fintech, with almost 20% of European startups spun out of unicorns operating in the sector.
Persons: Accel, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Niklas Zennstrom, Taavet Hinrikus, I'd, Harry Nelis, Klarna, Wise Organizations: Accel, Spotify, PayPal, Elon, Ventures, Fund, Shell, Unilever, CNBC, Startup Locations: Europe, Israel, American, Silicon Valley, West Coast, Palo Alto, Netherlands, fintech
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