eBay Inc. acquired Skype in 2005 and significantly expanded its customer base to more than 480 million registered users worldwide.

On 14 October 2005 Skype was acquired by eBay for € 2. 1 billion ($ 2. 6 billion ) plus the potential to earn further performance-based bonuses up to € 1. 2bn.

In 2005 the company received seed funding from venture capital firm WI Harper Group and Morten Lund, the first Skype investor, and Chen moved the company to Beijing.

During Whitman's tenure as CEO, eBay completed the purchase of Skype for $ 4. 1B in cash and stock in September 2005.

On December 1, 2005, On2 announced that Skype had licensed current and future versions of its video compression software and had integrated it into the Beta version of Skype 2. 0.

An article in 2004 suggested that Skype has relatively weak encryption, but more recent analyses, one by invitation and one by reverse engineering presented at DEF CON 2005, both conclude that Skype uses encryption effectively.

In December 2005, Skype announced that they had selected the VP7 codec for point-to-point video conferencing.

eBay acquired Skype Technologies S. A. in September 2005 and in April 2009 announced plans to spin it off in a 2010 IPO.

By early 2008, the tumultuous ownership relations between the founders and eBay had resulted in significant leadership churn, with a succession of Skype presidents including Niklas Zennström, Rajiv Dutta, Alex Kazim, Niklas Zennström ( again ), and Henry Gomez, all holding that title at various points between 2005 and 2007.

In September 2005, the French Ministry of Research, acting on advice from the General Secretariat of National Defence, issued an official disapproval of the use of Skype in public research and higher education ; some services are interpreting this decision as an outright ban.

In November 2005, he was invited to the Welsh Assembly as a guest speaker by Tory Welsh assembly member William Graham.

* Mulungushi Commuter Line, later Njanji Commuter Line managed by ZRL, operated from 1991 to 1998 in Lusaka from the Chilenje-Libala to George townships ( 16 km ); bids invited by the privatisiation board in September 2005 for re-opening it.

Lassally, who had served as an executive producer for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, was invited back to Late Show in January 2005 as a guest to discuss the recent death of Carson.

In 2005, the state government invited various Indian architects to enter their " concept for development of a memorial complex for Bhopal gas tragedy victims at the site of Union Carbide ".

On January 25, 2005, according to the New York Times, Bush told a privately invited group of African-American community and religious leaders that he remained committed to amending the Constitution to " ban same-sex marriage ".

Burke was invited back to the Vatican by Pope John Paul II and also by Pope Benedict XVI in December 2005 for the Christmas celebration.

In 2005, they were invited by Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse to perform at All Tomorrow's Parties but respectfully declined the invitation.

Beginning in 2005, McGill was one of a handful of leading law faculties ( including Columbia, Geneva, Harvard, Michigan, New York University, Strasbourg, University of Toronto and Yale ) to be invited by the International Court of Justice to supply clerks to the Judges.

In April 2005 Noel Gallagher confirmed that Starkey was invited to be Oasis ' official drummer, but that couldn't materialize before his current working engagements with The Who were completed in mid 2007.

Burns was invited to speak at the 2005 TED Conference.

Rivers was one of only four Americans invited to the Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005.

In 2005, they once again released a live CD / DVD recording ; also in 2005 they performed in Havana, Cuba, becoming one of the first foreign bands invited to perform in the country.

In 2005, Star Alliance invited Lineas Aereas Azteca to join the alliance in mid-2007.

On August 2005 a fan day was made, where his fans were invited to see his private car collection, but he wasn't at this time able to drive so his co-driver Robert Reid took seat on his private cars.

On the strength of his rating, Topalov was invited to the eight-player, double round-robin FIDE World Chess Championship in San Luis, Argentina, in September – October 2005.

Following the 7 July 2005 London bombings, Al Jazeera invited Hani al-Sebai, an Islamist living in Britain, to take part in a discussion on the event.

As runner-up in the 2004 event, Adams was one of eight players invited to the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.

On 25 September 2005, he was an invited speaker at an exopolitics conference in Toronto, where he told the audience that he had seen a UFO one night with his late wife and some friends.

On February 21, 2005, Cotler spoke of the important work that Bill C-36 involved, and invited experts and other groups to continue dialogue to improve the legislation in the review process.

In 2005, Washington-Williams was awarded an honorary Ph. D. in education from South Carolina State University at Orangeburg when she was invited to speak at their commencement ceremony.

Also in 2005, Jones was invited to take part in her boyfriend and collaborator Lee Cantelon's music version of his book The Words, a book of the words of Christ, set into simple chapters and themes.

West was hired for that show only and was eventually replaced by former Hurricane singer Kelly Hansen, who'd sent the band an audition tape and was invited aboard in March 2005.

Carlsen was invited to the tournament as the most promising young chess player in 2005.

* 2004 – 2005: Korean researcher Hwang Woo-Suk claims to have created several human embryonic stem cell lines from unfertilised human oocytes.

Similarly, a generally 1 / f distribution pattern has been observed in film shot length by researcher James E. Cutting of Cornell University, in the study of 150 popular movies released from 1935 to 2005.

In 2005, security researcher Georgi Guninski found an integer overflow in qmail.

He worked as a researcher for the Labour Party before being elected to the House of Commons at the 1987 General Election as MP for Motherwell North ( 1997 – 2005 ), then Airdrie and Shotts ( 2005 – 10 )).

After his first book Corazón Rojo ( Red Heart, 2005 ) where he testifies over his life after the cardiovascular problems, he publishes in 2007 the Prologue of the book La Globalización Neoliberal y sus repercusiones en la educación ( The Neoliberal Globalization and his impact in the education ) from the University teacher and researcher Enrique Díez and in 2008 he publishes El Tiempo y la Memoria ( Time and Memory ) wrote in collaboration with the Cordoban journalist and writer Rafael Martínez Simancas where he manifests his will to keep fighting

* 2005 Alexandru Marin, an experimental particle physicist, professor at MIT, Boston University and Harvard University, and researcher at CERN and JINR, died from the disease in 2005.

2004 and 2005 studies led by researcher Philippa Darbre, hypothesizes that particular substances in deodorants, such as preservatives called parabens, or bolts such as aluminium chloride used in antiperspirants, get into the bloodstream or accumulate in breast tissue, where they enhance or emulate the effects of estrogen, which stimulates the growth of cancerous breast cells.

Fei Xiaotong, or Fei Hsiao-Tung ( November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005 ) was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology ; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist.

The 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal started when security researcher Mark Russinovich revealed on October 31, 2005 that Sony's Extended Copy Protection copy protection software on the CD Get Right with the Man by Van Zant contained hidden files that could damage the operating system, install spyware and make the user's computer vulnerable to attack when the CD was played on a Microsoft Windows-based PC.

In 2005, a study led by a researcher at the British Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute suggested that Giocangga might be the ancestor of over 1. 5 million people, mostly in northeastern China and Mongolia.

In January 2006, it was revealed that data had been fabricated in an article by the Norwegian cancer researcher Jon Sudbø and 13 co-authors published in The Lancet in October 2005.

In November 2005, following government criticism of the report issued by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ( UNCERD ), Special Rapporteur Professor Stavenhagen, a Mexican researcher who reports to UNCERD, arrived in New Zealand at the invitation of the Government.

On March 17, 2005, the BBC published an article implying that researcher Horaţiu Năstase believes black holes have been created at RHIC.

A study by UNICEF Mexico and the DIF / National System for Integral Family Development estimated that more than 16, 000 children in Mexico were involved in prostitution ( in June 2000 ); a 2004 study by researcher Elena Azaola estimated that some 17, 000 children under the age of 18 are victims of the sex trade in Mexico ; the State System of Integral Family Development ( DIF ) reported that more than 20, 000 minors were victims of child prostitution in Mexico in 2005, an increase since the year 2000.

In March 2005 leading infrared researcher Tom Ellis joined the CLS from Acadia University as Director of Research.

From July 2005 to July 2006, he was a visiting researcher at the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique ( INRIA ), Rocquencourt, France, on sabbatical from Princeton.

In 2005, after a period of progress marked by growing acceptance in both the larger LGBT & straight communities, the bisexual community suddenly came under a new attack promulgated by the publication of a study entitled “ Sexual Arousal Patterns of Bisexual Men ” by the controversial researcher J. Michael Bailey.

Edward D. Freis ( May 13, 1912 – February 1, 2005 ) was an American physician and researcher, who received the Albert Lasker Award for his studies of the treatment of hypertension.

In 2005, researcher Bernd Herzogenrath uncovered the address where Ulmer was born in Olomouc.

He was a researcher for the party from 2002 to 2004 and was the national campaign manager prior to the 2005 election and the national Party Development Co-ordinator afterwards.

In 2005 he admitted his claims were false and returned his medal, after his deception was revealed by university researcher Benito Bermejo.