#skype

When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#analyst #big #big business #business #fashionable

If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#skype #use #web #you

Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#angry #birds #brilliant #company #different

Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#costs #free #join #network #new

People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#advantage #everywhere #happens #internet #matter

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#communicate #easiest #easy #enough #family

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#cheapest #communicate #easiest #easy #enough

Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#broadband #connection #individual #internet #skype

We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#call #conference #feature #five #people

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#any #connected #countries #day #each