Skype Signs Up More Than 100 Million Users
Internet telephony provider Skype announced Friday it now has more than 100 million registered users worldwide.
Luxembourg-based Skype had 54 million members when it was bought last September for $2.6 billion by online auctioneer eBay Inc.
Founded by the creators of Kazaa, the free file-sharing program that riled the music business, Skype gives away software that lets people talk for free from computer to computer, or pay a small fee to place and receive calls from regular phones.
The number of people who use Skype regularly may be far less than the number of registered users - on Friday morning, the Skype application reported that 5.9 million people were logged in.
