

After this date, organizations using Skype will be forced to use Teams for internal and external communication, screensharing, and conference calling. Watts said that while Skype’s growth has been impressive, investors eyeing publicly traded shares would be cautious about its prospects for revenue growth. Last summer, Microsoft officially announced the end-of-life for Skype for Business Online, effective July 31, 2021. Skype, which expects to trade on Nasdaq, has drawn a large number of customers with free computer-to-computer services while a small percentage of its customers use Skype to make calls to traditional phones at discounted rates.Ītlantic Equities analyst Chris Watts said Skype’s owners may see an IPO filing as a way to publicize the company in the hope that a strategic investor buys it outright. The filing for Luxembourg-based Skype, which provides free online video and text conversations popular with users such as college students studying abroad, did not specify the number of shares it would sell or give an expected price range. REUTERS/Pichi ChuangĪnalysts said this could be a bid by Skype’s private equity owners to recoup some of their investment of more than $2 billion when they bought the company in November or an effort to entice other technology or telecom companies into a deal.
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