Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Luxembourg, Microsoft-owned Skype has been credited with making video calls easy and ...

Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011 and which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online.

Skype, the pioneering online video calling service that has been around for more than two decades, will go offline for good after Monday. Microsoft, which owns Skype, announced in February that the ...