Niklas Zennström
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Auction's over for Skype...and never really made a clear case for why the buy was made or what it would add to its core auction business. Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis were pursuing a patent case against eBay in California. It emerged that the... In this article: Skype, EBay, Niklas Zennstrom, Silver Lake, and California |
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The Register | 1 day ago
High Court ruled against Skype founders on day of settlement
Posted in VoIP, 20th November 2009 08:02 GMT Free whitepaper - The business value of SIP VoIP and trunking Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis were told their case against Skype-owner eBay had to be conducted in the English...
In this article: Skype, EBay, Injunction, US, England, and Wales
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 1 day ago
eBay completes Skype sale
...stake in Skype for some two billion US dollars had been held up by lawsuits filed by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom, a Swede, and Friis, a Dane, settled the suits this month and will hold a 14 percent stake...
In this article: Skype, EBay, Online auction, Venture capital, Silver Lake Partners, and Luxembourg
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BusinessWeek Online | 1 day ago
Is MySpace Buying Imeem?
...steer clear, innovation in online music isn't dead. Consider Rdio, a secretive service yet to be launched by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Rdio will try to make money through subscriptions that let users share playlists...
In this article: MySpace, Imeem, Revenue, MySpace Music, Pandora, Rhapsody, and Real Networks
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AP Online | 1 day ago
EBay completes sale of Skype for $2 billion
...included the founders of the Internet phone service. Last week, the online auction site settled a legal skirmish with co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis which allowed the deal to move forward. The settlement gave Skype ownership of...
In this article: EBay, Skype, Silver Lake, San Jose, and California
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Cnet | 1 day ago
eBay sets Skype loose at $2.75 billion valuation
Joltid was brought into the investor group as part of the settlement of a copyright suit that the Skype co-founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed against eBay over Skype's technology. At one point, that dispute was looking so ugly...
In this article: Skype, EBay, CNET, Brewing, IT Security, and Waste
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washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago
Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation
The news of the completion of the sale of the successful Internet communication company comes two weeks after Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis announced that they had reached a settlement with eBay in return for a 14% stake...
In this article: Skype, EBay, Silver Lake Partners, TechCrunch, and Marc Andreessen
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Rdio Recruits Star Designer Wilson Miner (Apple.com, EveryBlock)
I wasn't kidding around when I wrote that Rdio, the latest online music venture backed by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis ¿ the original founders of Kazaa, Skype and Joost ¿ was assembling a killer team by hiring away top talent from some...
In this article: Apple.com, Skype, Joost, Kazaa, Python, Django, and LinkedIn
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BBC News | November 06, 2009
eBay in Skype deal with founders
...same time, eBay continues to retain a significant stake in Skype and will benefit from its continued growth." Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis will now own a 14% stake in the new Skype. The other new owners are Andreessen...
In this article: Skype, EBay, Index Ventures, Online auction, Netscape, and Marc Andreessen
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Niklas Zennström (born February 16, 1966) is a Swedish entrepreneur.
In 2001 Zennström, along with Janus Friis, co-founded Kazaa Media Desktop (once capitalized as "KaZaA", but now usually written "Kazaa") the peer-to-peer file sharing application. In 2002, Zennström and Friis created Skype the peer-to-peer Internet telephony network. He is also the co-founder (again with Friis) of Joost, an interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the web set up in 2006 and Atomico, a venture capital company.
Zennström has dual degrees in Business Administration (BSc) and Engineering Physics (MSc) from Uppsala University in Sweden. He spent his final year at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
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