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• Video Service Joost Sells Assets to Adconion Media Group

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 583
  Santa Monica,Calif. - Adconion Media Group,the operator of an online ad and content network, announced on Tuesday that ithas acquired Joost, the streaming TV service founded by the creators of Kazaaand Skype. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in2007 by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Content network firm Adconian Media Group said today that it has acquired the assets of Joost, the online video service founded by Skype founders and the subject of a lawsuit drama this fall.The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company was founded by Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. ...
  6 days ago

• Adconian Media Group buys Joost assets

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Content network firm Adconian Media Group said today that it has acquired the assets of Joost, the online video service founded by Skype founders and the subject of a lawsuit drama this fall.The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company was founded by Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. ...
  6 days ago

• Skype CEO Outlines Platform Ambitions, Hiring Plans

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 778
  With the spin-out from eBay complete , its legal troubles with founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis settled , Skype is looking to the future where it wants to become a ubiquitous real-time communications platform. And that means thinking about the next generation Skype architecture and also hiring a lot of ...
  1 week ago

• eBay Completes Sale of Skype Unit to Investor Group

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 583
  San Jose,Calif. - Nearly three monthsafter first announcing the deal, online auction giant eBay (NASD: EBAY) said that it hascompleted the sale of a majority stake in its Skype Internet telephone businessto an investment group headed by Silver Lake Partners. Under the deal, theinvestor group -- which also included ...
  1 week ago

• eBays Skype deal is (finally) undone

  
  Dealscape — Authority: 428
  A consortium of investors that includes Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board takes charge of Skype. Whats next?
  1 week ago

• Investors Sew Up Deal for Skype

  
  DealBook — Authority: 755
  EBay said Thursday that it had completed its sale of its Skype to a consortium of investors as it had vowed to do before the end of the year.
  1 week ago

• Should a Social Skype add Skeets? How does Skype compete with Twitter? A Rant!

  
  stuart henshall — Authority: 463
  I’d love to see Skype follow Brian McConnell’s advice on @gigaom and add an open status updating mechanism.  See my “ Skype Will Never Beat Facebook from Jan09 so this isn’t the first time it has been discussed in the Skypeosphere. However, he has to go further and I believe Twitter is equally dangerous ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google acquires Gizmo5 to take on Skype. Deal valued at US$ 30 Million.

  
  Wireless Federation — Authority: 425
  Google has been on the prowl acquiring some strategic companies in what could be termed as the next frontier. After acquring Admob, Techcrunch has reported that it is to acquire VOIP Start-up Gizmo5 for about USD 30 Million.The deal comes after Skype successfully negotiated a deal with its former owners Niklas ...
  2 weeks ago

• Social Networking Watch: Skype Founders Settle With eBay

  
  New Web 2.0 Magazine — Authority: 157
  TECH CRUNCH - Nov 6 - eBay has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for the sale to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan...
  2 weeks ago

• Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling [Hackfights]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Youd think tech bloggers would learn from the peacemaking founders of Skype, who just dropped lawsuits holding back the $2.8 billion sale of their former company. Instead the writers are calling one...
  3 weeks ago

• Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling

  
  Gawker: valleywag — Authority: 655
  Youd think tech bloggers would learn from the peacemaking founders of Skype, who just dropped lawsuits holding back the $2.8 billion sale of their former company. Instead the writers are calling one another inaccurate, spineless "toddlers." Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are dropping suits ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lessons From the War Over Skype

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  The legal skirmish over eBays sale of Skype has been resolved. What has it taught us?
  3 weeks ago

• Lessons From the War Over Skype

  
  Bits — Authority: 755
  The dust has settled, the ink on the deal has dried, and one of the biggest sideshows in Silicon Valley this year appears to be over. The litigation between eBay, the buyers of Skype and its original founders has been dropped, and the deal, which values Skype at $2.7 billion, should close sometime soon.Which means ...
  3 weeks ago

• Skype Litigation Settled; Sale by eBay to Investors to Proceed

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 583
  San Jose,Calif. - Skype parent companyeBay (NASD: EBAY) announced on Friday that litigation between an investor group looking toacquire Skype and the creators of the Internet telephone service has beensettled, and that its sale of a majority stake in Skype will now proceed. As aresult of the settlement, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• eBay settles Skype lawsuits and lose another $137m

  
  TameBay — Authority: 135
  Skype, eBay, Joltid, Joost, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have settled their differences and come to an agreement to secure the future of Skype and the underlying technology. Previously it was claimed that Skype was infringing IP rights on technology at the heart of it’s software which it didn’t own but was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Silly Skype Soap Opera Finally Canceled

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 676
  The fight for Skype has ended. After weeks of nasty legal sparring , the Internet telephony service’s founders agreed to join the investor group purchasing it from EBay (EBAY) and dropped the lawsuit that had threatened to bollocks the deal. “Skype will be well positioned to move forward under new owners with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Skype soap opera ends as founders set to regain stake ahead of $2B sale

  
  BloggingBuyouts — Authority: 395
  Filed under: Deals , Silver Lake Partners , Private equity This post was written by DailyFinance contributor Sam Gustin. Memo to would-be Silicon Valley moguls: do not double-cross a pair of highly litigious billionaires. After weeks of back-and-forth legal jousting , the tech heavyweights fighting ...
  3 weeks ago

• Skype soap opera ends as founders set to regain stake ahead of $2B sale

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 795
  Filed under: Company News , People Memo to would-be Silicon Valley moguls: do not double-cross a pair of highly litigious billionaires. After weeks of back and forth legal jousting , the tech heavyweights fighting over Skype are set to announce a deal in which the founders of the popular Web-calling service ...
  3 weeks ago

• Skype Founders Fight Their Way Into the New Skype

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 778
  The great Skype legal mess is about to come to an end, thanks to a settlement between  eBay — and private investors led by Silver Lake Partners — and Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. As part of the deal, the two Skype founders will get 10 percent of the company in exchange for allowing it to ...
  3 weeks ago

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