Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011 and which had helped spark a ...

Start-up Skype announced Wednesday that it has reached the 1 million mark for simultaneous users of its peer-to-peer telephone software. Meanwhile, Voiceglo--a phone service available wherever there's ...

Making telephone calls over the Internet is nothing new. Once the arena for hobbyists and techies, Internet telephony is now a proven technology. Internet phone calls are so reliable and popular that ...

At a time when major U.S. telephone operators are spending billions of dollars to expand, telephone software maker Skype on Tuesday says it's building a global phone network virtually for free. New ...