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Skype Sees 380,000 New Users Each Day

by Kaiser Hwang on February 19, 2009 at 08:54 AM

We love Skype -- and so does everyone else, apparently. The VoIP company that eBay bought for a staggering $2.6 billion in cash (in addition to eBay stock) is seeing an average growth of about 380,000 new registered users a day. Currently at 405 million worldwide users, with a peak count of 15 million simultaneously active users, Skype seems to have a bright future, despite earlier reports that the company was losing money.

To put the numbers in perspective, Skype has more than double the number of registered users as Facebook, and is growing by the population of San Francisco every two days. And unlike most start-ups with tons of users but no business plan, Skype is making money. Last year, the company made $550 million in revenue, and in the last quarter of 2008 made $45 million in profit.

Where's this money come from? In addition to Skype's free services, there are also a number of pay services that are offered, including the ability to call landlines, and receive standard phone calls and voicemail. In fact, we use Skype regularly to make local and domestic calls at insanely cheap rates. With companies looking to save anywhere possible, and the proliferation of Skype clients on everything from PCs to phones to Sony PSPs, the question is, why aren't you using it? [From: PC World]

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