Skype's subscriber base just keeps on climbing, with another 37 million people added in the second quarter - taking the total year-to-date increase to 75 million.
Growing subscribers also means growing revenues and the VoIP company saw Q2 revenue jump 25 per cent year-over-year to USD $170 million.

Its future with parent eBay may be uncertain but that hasn't prevented Skype from continuing to generate revenue.
eBay's Q1 financial statements published this week show the VoIP company is still increasing revenue, minutes and users.

Codima has announced the launch of operations in the French market.
The VoIP software tools provider is to offer sales, marketing and support to new and existing resellers throughout France from offices in Paris.

VoIP telephone services in Western Europe leapt to just under 30 million consumer lines by mid-2008 - up from 20 million only a year earlier.
That figure has continued to climb and totalled 35 million lines at the end of the year, according to a survey by researchers TeleGeography.

VoIP provider Vonage had a revenue increase of 9 per cent to USD $900 million in 2008.
However, reporting on its fourth-quarter and full-year 2008 earnings report, the company said it lost a net of 14,700 subscribers in Q4.