Niklas Zennstr�m and Skype

By Jason Porterfield

In 2003, Swedish businessman Niklas Zennstr?m sent out an email message to his friends, asking them to take a look at a new Web site called Skype.com. With that message, he launched one of the most popular Internet services of the early twenty-first century. Skype revolutionized the way that people communicated by offering free and low-cost phone calls to anywhere in the world through the Internet. In the years since Zennstr?m sent that e-mail message, more than six hundred million people worldwide have become Skype users. This informational text is aligned to content areas in social science and technology, providing readers with a compelling look at the technological world of Internet start-ups and Zennstr?m's cutting-edge business savvy. The insightful narrative includes sidebars on some of the company's innovations, a biographical fact sheet on Zennstr?m, and a fact sheet that profiles the company's achievements. A timeline provides students with a succinct overview of Zenntr?m's life and Skype's history.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1448895278
• ISBN13: 9781448895274
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12