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- Not long ago, TV fans searched in vain for their shows online. Now, they often have several sites to choose from. Episodes of Fox's House, for example, can be bought for $1.99 on Amazon or iTunes or watched free on Fox.com or Hulu.com. Hulu, the newest...
- Research articles 2007-11-06
- Other places to catch free shows
- Joost faces potential competition from a variety of well-known and little-known computer and Internet rivals. Among them: *Babelgum. This free, on-demand beta video service (www.babelgum.com) shares traits with Joost. It, too, uses peer-to-peer technology and is generally thin on content, notwithstanding the moving Spike Lee short...
- Research articles 2007-06-14
- This Just In.(attendance at Cable Show)(Ohio state house committee to conduct hearings on franchise bill)(Illinois Seeks Death Penalty for cable installer Anthony Triplett)
- By Staff 15K Hit the Strip For Cable Show '07 Staff Las Vegas - About 15,000 people attended The Cable Show here this week, according to projections from the National Cable...
- Research articles 2007-05-14
- Quick Hits: SCTE Notebook.(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers' annual Conference)(Time Warner Cable to triple the availability of its Start Over program-replay service)(RGB Networks launches Universal Scalable Modulator)
- By Todd Spangler Houston-From the scene at last week's Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers' annual Conference on Emerging Technologies, as reported by technology editor Todd Spangler. Admission of the Week ...
- Research articles 2007-01-29
- Why Joost isn't just your average 'YouTube killer'; Viacom, others provide professionally produced content for video service.
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- Research articles 2007-02-26
- Interview: Adconion CEO Says Joost Will Showcase Branded Entertainment
- Joost isn’t dead, it’s just getting more advertising.Adconion‘s main aim in acquiring the video firm is to offer its web player to brand marketing clients, CEO Tyler Moebius told paidContent.org. But Adconion’s acquisition also includes the Joost.com trademark and rights for much of Joost’s TV content…Though Joost itself had...
- External links 2009-11-24
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- 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' 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
- Joost and Nippon TV secure content distribution deal
- Online video platform, Joost, has agreed to distribute comedy programming from Nippon Television Network and Yoshimoto Kogyo via dedicated channels on its web site. Japanese advertising agency Dentsu will assume responsibility for managing ad revenue. by Jeremy Collum
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Leslie Moonves, Quincy Smith And CBS Three Years, A Couple Of Billion Later
- Quincy Smith came to CBS in late 2006 to make deals and make them he did—with just about everyone but Hulu. He had been advising CEO Leslie Moonves on corporate internet strategy as an investment banker for Allen & Co. In an interview with paidContent this afternoon about “the...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Warner Music Group and Joost Announce Agreement to Offer WMG Video Content on New Internet Television Platform
- Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE: WMG), one of the world's leading global music companies, and Joost, a global video distribution service that combines the best of television and the Internet, today announced an agreement to provide video content featuring WMG's world-renowned roster of artists on the Joost platform. As...
- Research articles 2007-04-09
- Joost Finally Acquired, By Online Ad Network Adconion
- So Joost’s been put out of its misery and its assets have been acquired by Santa Monica, CA-based online ad network Adconion Media Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but likely would have been pennies on the dollar, compared to the money that was invested in the...
- External links 2009-11-24
- Industry Moves: Volpi Out As Joost Chairman
- 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...
- External links 2009-09-11
- UK arm of Joost put into liquidation
- The UK arm of Joost, the online video service founded by the creators of Skype and backed by big media investors, was put into liquidation this month after failing to find a buyer.The liquidation is the latest stage in the decline of the Netherlands-based company, which launched in 2007...
- External links 2009-10-14
- KaZaA, Skype, Joost Founders Now Building A Music Service
- 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...
- External links 2009-10-14
- Joost founders building music service
- 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...
- News items 2009-10-14
- 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
- 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
- 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]
- 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...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Joost joins forces with PS3
- Joost Labs is launching a new version of its web TV service for the PS3, making its service accessible on TV sets via the console. However, users will be unable to access content from Viacom, Warner Bros or CBS. Joost...
- Articles 2009-06-16
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