Quick Link… According to DesignTechnica, AOL have purchased SKYPE for $4.1 billion. As of today, there have been 164 million downloads. That might give 100m users since some users have downloaded the software more than once. That means that at a bare minimum the company is worth $40 per user. That is a lot of money.

The $4.1b is made up of $1.3b cash, $1.3b stock, and the rest in ‘rewards’.