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- Skype eyes VoIP startup to replace disputed technology - Rumour
- 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...
- Articles 2009-10-13
- Skype Founders Get Personal; Sue Former Joost CEO Volpi Over Trade Secrets
- Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the founders of a P2P maze of Skype, Joost and other startups based on code owned by their company Joltid, are now suing one of their own former execs. Wednesday, Michaelangelo “Mike” Volpi was the only individual included in Joltid’s copyright infringement suit against...
- External links 2009-09-18
- Dueling Skype Sides Hire Big Communications Guns [BoomTown]
- Perhaps the sides in the ever-escalating war over the Skype deal will work out their differences and settle–which is what should and probably will eventually happen, after everyone realizes how stupid all this noisy legal wrangling over the Internet telephony giant is. But that day is decidedly not today, given...
- News items 2009-10-15
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- EBay, Skype Settle IP Suits With Joltid, Sans Index Ventures
- eBay Nov. 6 settled lawsuits with Joltid Limited and Joost N.V. in a $1.9 billion deal that gives Skype ownership over all software previously licensed from Joltid and paves the way for a group of investors to acquire the majority of the company. Joltid and Skype founders Niklas Zennstr?m and...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Skype lives on, reaches settlement with Joltid
- Filed under: News , VoIP A few months ago there was talk that a lawsuit could bring down the popular VoIP client Skype. That's because Skype was involved in a dispute with Joltid, a company that Skype was licensing technology from. ...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Skype Founders' New Court Filings Include 'Smoking Gun' E-Mails From Ex Joost CEO
- [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....
- External links 2009-10-15
- Skype, Founders Settlement in the Works?
- The ongoing legal scuffle between Skype, a division of eBay, and its founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom may soon see a resolution, according to someone familiar with the situation. The various parties are in discussions to resolve the various issues. The talks are described to be at sensitive stage...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Skype Founders' Injunction May Derail Skype Buyout
- Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the founders of Skype, though their Joltid and Joost businesses, are seeking an injunction against Mike Volpi and Index Ventures that would prevent Volpi and Index from completing a deal agreed to in September to buy Skype from eBay. Friis and Zennström sued Volpi and...
- News items 2009-10-14
- eBay sells 65% stake in Skype for $1.9bn
- Online auction house eBay offloads majority stake in internet telephony group Skype to investment consortium Online auction house eBay has sold a 65% stake in Skype to an investment consortium that includes the founder of Netscape, in a deal that values the internet telephony group at...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Let's make a deal: Skype founders are back and now own 14%
- According to the Skype blog, a deal has been made. Skype, eBay and their investors will no longer be sued by Joltid and the former Skype founders while Skype will now own the underlying codebase that makes its VoIP calls possible. Skype President Josh Silverman's blog post...
- News items 2009-11-09
- EBay Will Sell Majority Stake in Skype to Private Investors
- EBay plans to sell 65 percent of its stake in Skype, the popular Internet-calling service, to a group of private investors that include Marc Andreeseen's venture-capital firm. Although the acquisition of Skype by eBay was originally intended to produce synergies, a lawsuit and other issues prevented the original deal from...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Joost: Volpi Was Forced Out As Chair, 'Investigation' Underway
- 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...
- External links 2009-09-14
- Skype Founders Sue eBay, Investors Over Licenses; Could Delay Sell-Off
- 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...
- External links 2009-09-16
- Skype's Independent Future
- In his Tuesday blog post outlining eBay's agreement to sell 65% of Skype, Skype President Josh Silverman called the deal "a new chapter" for the popular Internet calling service. So, what's next for Skype? Skype's management won't change, according to people familiar with the situation. That means Silverman, who joined...
- News items 2009-09-01
- eBay, investor group settle Skype lawsuit
- Online auction giant eBay announced Friday that its sale of a controlling interest in its Skype unit will proceed, following the settlement of litigation over the proposed transaction.The settlement restructures the deal with an investor group led by Silver Lake and puts an end to a dispute with software maker...
- News items 2009-11-06
- SEC Watch: Andresseen's Fund Will Own Less Than 5 Percent Of Skype
- EBay kicked off Tuesday with news that it’s selling Skype to an investor group for $1.9 billion in cash—and a bit of a surprise that it’s keeping a 35 percent interest. The SEC document just filed sheds a little more light on the deal, which values Skype at $2.75...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Skype Sale Suffers Setback
- Zacks.com submits: Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom recently filed a lawsuit against eBay Inc. EBAY, claiming that there had been a breach in agreement by which it licensed key communication technology enabling phone calls over the Internet. Joltid Ltd., a firm owned by the co-founders, estimates...
- External links 2009-09-17
- Skype Squabbles Continue in Sale Process
- WILMINGTON, Del., Oct 14 (Reuters) - Skype's founders asked a U.S. federal court to prevent Index Ventures and one of its partners from further participating in the proposed $1.9 billion acquisition of the Web phone service, according to a court filing on Wednesday. The suit, brought by Joltid, the new...
- News items 2009-10-14
- As Skype Sale Nears, Why eBay Shareholders Should Be Mad
- If you are an eBay shareholder it is time for your to get mad for the sheer incompetency of the management. First they paid the top dollar for Skype back in 2005, making billionaires out of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. And, now instead of waiting for an opportune time...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Further Details Emerge As Skype & Its Founders Close to Settlement
- There is a good likelihood that Skype; its founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis; and a group of private equity investors led by Silver Lake Partners are close to settling their legal disputes, allowing eBay to sell 65 percent of Skype for about $2 billion. I had first reported the...
- News items 2009-11-03
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