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Skype, the next cash machine?
Skype, the Internet telephony company with has 560 million registered users (biggger than Facebook's so far!), announced that it has filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $100 million.
Skype’s decision to go public is a result of the company turning into a cash machine. It currently has 560 million registered users and about 124 million of them are active on monthly basis, while about 8.1 million of them are monthly paying users — who on average pay $96 a year for the service. Any increase in the number of average monthly paying users is going to help the company erase any losses and goose up its revenues.
[via GigaOM]
Skype, still the world's biggest social network
My colleague Jeremy Wagstaff wrote an interesting piece on Skype and highlighted that the service is still the world's biggest social network! [To be honest, I was also not aware about this fact!]
We talk about Facebook, twitter, MySpace and Friendster as the big social networks but we keep forgetting one that is far bigger than that: Skype. This from a Bloomberg piece on Skype’s vacillating fortunes:Skype has soared in popularity since it started in 2003 and has about 548 million users worldwide—more than Facebook, MySpace and Twitter combined.
