Skype goes up against the gorillas

It might only be a few years old. It may have no stock market listing and no money beyond a few vent...

It might only be a few years old. It may have no stock market listing and no money beyond a few venture-capital backers. If you measure a company by its ability to make waves and send shivers down the spines of the world's most successful organisations, then Europe has no more interesting enterprise than Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies. When you've forced the likes of Microsoft, Google and Yahoo - the three gorillas of the computing/internet industry - into playing catch-up, then you must be doing something right. And Skype is. Its founders, Swede Niklas Zennstrom and Dane Janus Friis...