{"id":85209,"date":"2023-07-05T00:24:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T04:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85209"},"modified":"2023-07-05T00:29:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T04:29:06","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2023\/the-rise-and-fall-of-skype.html","title":{"rendered":"The rise and fall of Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Skype is not what it was. You may or may not have noticed. The voice, video and messaging app became a hit in the 2000s by letting people talk with friends and family members without paying long-distance fees. In 2005 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/EBAY\/\">eBay<\/a> bought it. That deal didn\u2019t work out as planned, and an investor group led by Silver Lake purchased a majority stake. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSFT\/\">Microsoft<\/a> then stepped in, shelling out $8.5 billion for the company in 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/02\/the-rise-and-fall-of-skype.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Skype is not what it was. You may or may not have noticed. The voice, video and messaging app became a hit in the 2000s by letting people talk with friends and family members without paying long-distance fees. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85210,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85209\/revisions\/85210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}