Skype Office, Stockholm, Sweden

On 9 August 2010, Skype filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering Sources reported the company in fact expected to raise at least $1 billion.
In October 2010, Skype announced it had named Tony Bates as its CEO; Bates has been a senior VP at Cisco and responsible for its multi-billion-dollar enterprise, commercial and small business division.
On 14 October 2010, Skype 5.0 for Windows was released with a number of improvements and feature additions, including a Facebook tab to allow users to SMS, chat with, or call their Facebook friends via Skype from the News Feed. This version dropped support for the "Search for Skype Users" option.
On 14 January 2011, Skype acquired Qik, a mobile video sharing platform.