August 10, 2010

Skype prepares IPO

Hope to be listed on Nasdaq by year-end.

Communications giant Skype plans to offer shares for 100 million dollars when the company stock to be listed in the U.S.. The company hopes to traded on Nasdaq before the year's end.

It is less than a year ago trading site eBay sold the majority of Skype to the private investment group Silver Lake Partners for about $ 2 billion. Now notifies the Luxembourg-registered company that wants to be listed on the Nasdaq technology index on the Stock Exchange in New York by year's end.

In the securities authorities in the U.S. have Skype registered shares for 100 million dollars for sale.

Skype was founded in 2003 and has quickly become a giant online communications. Many know the company's free services such as voice and video-based instant messaging over the Internet, but more and more uses payment service where you can call regular and mobile phones from computers.

Skype had more than 8 million paying users by the end of June, and 560 million registered users in total.
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