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• Skype Founders' New Court Filings Include 'Smoking Gun' E-Mails From Ex Joost CEO

  PaidContent - 2009-10-15

  [With Staci D. Kramer] For weeks, Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have claimed in legal filings and through representatives to have evidence that former Joost CEO Michelangelo “Mike” Volpi put together an investment group to acquire the virtual phone company by promising access to a technology workaround....

  Tags: Joost, Skype Technologies S.A., Erenkranzt, E-mail, Peer To Peer (P2P), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Online Communications, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Patrick Smith

• KaZaA, Skype, Joost Founders Now Building A Music Service

  PaidContent - 2009-10-14

  They turned the entertainment world upside-down with KaZaA, revolutionized voice communications with Skype and eventually gave up on their web TV ambitions through Joost.Now serial entrepreneurs and investors Niklas Zennstrom of Sweden and Janus Friis of Denmark are trying again to disrupt the music business. They have funded and...

  Tags: P2P, Kazaa, Joost, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Rdio, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Robert Andrews

• Skype eyes VoIP startup to replace disputed technology - Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-13

  Internet calling firm Skype is reportedly in negotiations to buy voice-over-IP VoIP startup Gizmo5 in a bid to substitute Gizmo5’s technology for its current peer-to-peer (P2P) system. Skype’s P2P technology is the subject of a legal wrangle between the company and its founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who...

  Tags: VoIP, P2P, Skype Technologies S.A., Gizmo5, Robertson, Peer To Peer (P2P), Telephony, Internet, Networking, Skype, Joltid, Jasper Jackson, eBay Inc.

• Skype Founders Sue eBay, Investors Over Licenses; Could Delay Sell-Off

  PaidContent - 2009-09-16

  Just as eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is ready to spinoff Skype, the founders of the virtual telephone company are suing the auction site for violating their license agreements and infringing on their copyright. According to a WSJ piece, the founders of Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, who now run the...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Investor, Peer To Peer (P2P), Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Legal, Technologies / Formats, P2P, David Kaplan

• Joost: Volpi Was Forced Out As Chair, 'Investigation' Underway

  PaidContent - 2009-09-14

  When the virtually wound-down Joost confirmed to us late last week that former CEO Mike Volpi has also exited as chairman, it didn’t tell us that owners had forced him out of the role. Now, in a statement via WSJ and elsewhere, it says: “Mr. Volpi was removed from...

  Tags: Joost, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Corporate Governance, Corporate Communications, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Companies, Robert Andrews

• Industry Moves: Volpi Out As Joost Chairman

  PaidContent - 2009-09-11

  Mike Volpi kept the role of chairman when Joost switched to a white-label tech provider and he left as CEO for Index Ventures, an investor in the video startup. That’s over, too.  Volpi told paidContent, following a report on SAI that he was out as chairman, “I will confirm...

  Tags: Industry, Joost, Skype Technologies S.A., Corporate Governance, Video On Demand (VoD), Corporate Communications, Portals, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Internet, Industry Moves, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Staci D. Kramer

• Skype Gaining Business Users

  BNET - 2009-05-18

  Skype, the Internet-based telephony company which eBay plans to spin off in 2010, claims it's gaining a new audience -- business users. Chaim Haas, a spokesman for the company, told me that the proportion of business users as a percent of the total customer base grew from...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Instant Messaging, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Michael Hickins

• Skype founders aim to buy firm back from eBay - Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-04-13

  The founders of internet call service Skype have secured the backing of four private equity firms in a bid to buy back the company from eBay. KKR, Warburg Pincus, Providence and Elevation Partners are reported to support the bid by Niklas Zennstrom and Jannus Friis to...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Internet, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Personal Finance, Investment, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Skype, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, Providence Equity Partners, Warburg Pincus LLC, Elevation Partners, Jasper Jackson

• The Skype's the Limit

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-26

  eBay Investor submits: eBay's EBAY acquisition of Skype in 2005 has been one of the many controversial moves eBay has been recently making. The purchase was originally marketed as the missing piece to create the holy trinity in eBay's hallowed e-commerce halls (along with eBay's auction sites and PayPal.)...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Seeking Alpha, eBay Investor, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Technology, Corporate Law, E-business/E-Commerce, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Internet

• EBay's Core Shrivels While Skype Shines

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-16

  Erick Schonfeld submits: Although eBay EBAY beat its downwardly-revised earnings numbers today, its earnings call see call transcript was filled with glum news for investors. Full earnings slides embedded below. After three flat quarters, revenues declined 3.6 percent from the second quarter to $2.2 billion. Free cash...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Seeking Alpha, Erick Schonfeld, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet