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Skype founders ‘to launch Spotify killer’
Not another one As the expensive furniture of their most recent flop startup Joost finds new owners, the founders of Kazaa and Skype are reported to be preparing their next venture.…
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On the heels of news that Kazaa Kreators Niklas Zennstrom (left) and Janus Friis figure the net should again be alive with the sound of music — their music — comes further information that their Joost online TV thingie, launched with much ballyhoo a couple of years ago, has been virtually switched off. In January Joost was supposed to have been reinventing itself by offering allegedly broadcast-quality content to viewers for free, ‘free’ being advertising-driven. The site is still online but, “the office furniture of Joost UK Limited, registered in England and Wales with number 05821718, has apparently already found its way to another startup,” says TechCrunch .
Continue reading »Skype-Joost Licensing Drama Déjà Vu for Friis And Zennstrom
Many people in the online video space are trying to make sense of the lawsuit Joost filed against its former chairman and CEO Mike Volpi earlier today. The lawsuit has something to do with the supposed revelation of trade secrets in connection to the sale of Skype to a group led by Volpi’s new employer Index Ventures (which is also named in the suit, as it invested in Joost). But what does a failed video start-up have in common with a VOIP operator?
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