We are all well known about this word Skype. The word comes from “Sky peer-to-peer" is abbreviated as Skype. The company was founded in 2003 by the Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and Dane Janus Friis. In April 2003, Skype.com . Now Internet phone company Skype is being bought by Microsoft for $8.5bn (£5.2bn) as the software giant steps up its battle with Google and Facebook in the rapidly evolving wo ...