Are there any investment opportunities into this growing feild? I've been trying to find a link into this company any only found dead-ends.(skype)
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January 29, 2004
Skype Keeps Growing
Skype Technologies S.A., the global P2P telephony company that provides consumers on Windows PCs with the ability to make free voice calls using their broadband connections, today announced the expansion of Asian language options, adding Chinese, Japanese and Korean to the twelve languages already offered on Skype.
The enhancement enables consumers world wide to interact with the software in their language of choice and reinforces Skype's commitment to the Asian market.
Skype, the Global P2P Telephony Company, allows people everywhere to make free, unlimited voice calls via its innovative peer-to-peer software. Skype is available in several languages and is the fastest growing voice communications offering worldwide.
Since its launch in August 2003, Skype has been downloaded more than 6.5 million times.
In addition to 15 language translations of the software, Skype is now equipped with a language editor that allows users to translate Skype into their own language, empowering people to further broaden the Skype community in their own countries.
"The combination of technologically savvy consumers and their rapid adoption of broadband creates a large appeal and success for Skype in the region,” commented Niklas Zennström, CEO and co-founder of Skype. He continued, "We are thrilled to respond to the strong demand in Asia. Creating websites and software in these languages is an important development in our ongoing commitment to expanding the accessibility of Skype on a global scale.”
What is Skype?
- Skype is ‘Free Speech' over the Internet -- offering free software that allows free, high quality, unlimited, worldwide voice calling over the Internet
- Skype facilitates a user-built global phone directory accessible to all users
- Skype works behind most firewalls with no special configuration needed and is easy to download in both the home and the work place
- Skype helps people to reduce their phone bills
- Skype offers higher quality calling for broadband users and is also available to dial-up Internet users
- The new Asian language offerings build on the Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish versions already available
While Skype will remain committed to a simple-to-use yet feature rich and free offering, it will also introduce an array of premium services at our first commercial launch in 2004.”
Skype is a 6.5 MB executable installer that can be freely download here:
http://ui.skype.com/go/getskype
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