
Users can easily start group chats and customize their responses by color to match their feelings. The new Skype puts chatting, rather than video conferencing, front and center. Skype wants to change that, and it’s hoping that a new interface cut from the cloth of Snapchat and Facebook will help. Internet communication tools are a dime a dozen these days, and many of them are optimized for smartphones and social sharing - both components missing from Skype, whose mobile user base flatlined around 300 million back in 2013.


Skype, the company that unleashed the video calling revolution more than a decade ago, announced a complete overhaul of its application. Can its latest update pull it off? Andrew Tolve reports. Skype desperately wants to be cool again.
