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Zennstrom bigs up Skype in Davos

By My status Jane Hoskyn on January 29, 2007 in Skype in the news.

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The Beeb's news website has been on the trail of Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, who's been getting an awful lot of publicity lately for a certain web TV project. Happily, this time Niklas had his Skype chief exec's hat on.

He's been speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where, says BBC News, "an aura of awe surrounds him". The reporter also confidently reveals that Skype is "striking fear into the hearts of telecom firms around the world" – you betcha!

Zennstrom is described as exhibiting "a quiet pride" when he speaks of the continuing success of Skype. He pointed out to delegates that more than 171 million users have registered with Skype so far, and 200,000 new users are signing up every day. The company's net revenues topped $66m during the last three months of 2006 alone.

Now, revealed Zennstrom, Skype is looking for new targets. "We are going in a few different directions," he said. Skype wants to be "where users want to use us"; they don't want to "sit in front of a computer all the time". Could this mean that more mobile network operators are in talks with Skype about making the software available via their handsets? Let's hope so.

Meanwhile, at the weekend I took delivery of a shiny new Nokia phone from 3's X-Series, which launched in November with Skype built in. The bad news is it's only mine for a couple of weeks; the good news is that I'll bring you a review once I've given it a thorough road-test.

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