Skype was developed by Niklas Zennström of Sweden and Denmark’s Janus Friis, founders of KaZaA – the company that developed the popular Internet software of the same name that allows hundreds of millions of computer users worldwide to download and share music and video files over the Internet.
The Skype Group headquarters is in Luxembourg with offices in London and Tallinn, Estonia.
Skype uses advanced Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Technology to make phone calls convenient and cheap over the Internet.