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• Adconian Media Group buys Joost assets, ending a long saga

  BNET - 2009-11-24

  Tags: Video, Skype Technologies S.A., Joost

• EBay, Skype Settle IP Suits With Joltid, Sans Index Ventures

  BNET - 2009-11-06

  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...

  Tags: eBay Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Joost

• I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype Founders Set to Get 10 Percent, Option to Buy Three Percent More and Two Board Seats [BoomTown]

  BNET - 2009-11-05

  According to several sources close to the situation, barring any unforeseen delay, a deal to settle the Skype imbroglio is likely to be announced around the time the markets open tomorrow. While the massive agreement is not yet officially signed–which will settle three aggressive lawsuits lobbed by Skype's Co-founders Niklas...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Joost

• Dueling Skype Sides Hire Big Communications Guns [BoomTown]

  BNET - 2009-10-15

  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...

  Tags: eBay Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Joost

• 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

• Joost founders building music service

  BNET - 2009-10-14

  They turned the entertainment world upside-down with KaZaA, revolutionised 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...

  Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Kazaa, Joost

• Skype Founders' Injunction May Derail Skype Buyout

  BNET - 2009-10-14

  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...

  Tags: injunction, Skype Technologies S.A., Joost

• 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 Founders Get Personal; Sue Former Joost CEO Volpi Over Trade Secrets

  PaidContent - 2009-09-18

  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...

  Tags: Joost, Skype Technologies S.A., Joltid, Financial Accounting, Finance, Legal, Staci D. Kramer

• 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