Skype bought Qik service

Quite well-known service Qik, which is something like a hybrid social network, video hosting and chat for mobile devices, was bought by Skype. Qik was founded back in 2006, and has since become quite popular. It is worth noting that the value of the company, determined by experts, was about $ 100 million. According to rumors, Skype bought the company at a higher price (the exact amount of the transaction, unfortunately, remains unknown, but TechcCrunch writes about $ 150 million).

Now the transaction goes through a series of standard procedures, and the transfer of Qik’s assets to Skype should be expected by the end of January of this year. It is worth noting that one of the founders of the startup is a citizen of Russia, Nikolay Abkairov. He now holds the position of technical director of Qik. The startup development team is located in Zelenograd, but the sales department, investor relations department and other similar departments are located in California. The start-up is hosted in a reliable data center, the same place where some of the Facebook servers are located.
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Soon, according to the company's management, the introduction of Qik technologies in Skype is expected. I would like to hope for the development of the mobile version of Skype using new technologies. Neil Stevens, one of the leaders of Skype, promised that Qik technologies will soon be used to optimize the transmission of video over wireless networks. Currently, this is a rather urgent problem, since video calls are made to 41.5% of all calls within the Skype network.

By the way, last year there was a noticeable increase in international Skype traffic. According to experts, the volume of such traffic on the Web has increased by about 100%. This situation played a fairly significant role in the purchase of Qik, since buyers were interested in streaming video technology, video concurrent service and Qik cloud infrastructure in general.

In general, let's hope that this purchase will benefit Skype, which continues to please us with good communication and generally with a normal service (let's not recall recent problems, they are not so often with Skype, right?).