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Joltid vs. Skype: Is there a workaround?

As long as a certain preferred stock..holder continues to own holding in ebay; I could care less if they crashed and burned and took Skype with them.Sorry, but an enemy is an enemy, and this one deserves to be run over in the street in my opinion. Not that I'd...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Databases, Skype Technologies S.A., Joltid

Discussion threads 2009-09-20

Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale

eBay's $2 billion sale of Skype to a group of investors could be complicated by a lawsuit filed by a company owned by Skype's founders. According to a Wall Street Journal report, a company named Joltid, which is owned by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed suit in...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Joltid, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Skype Founders Sue eBay and Investors

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Joltid , the P2P video company owned by Skype's founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed a copyright suit against Skype. Joltid owns a peer-to-peer technology that is used in Skype's software. According to the article, the suit...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Investor, Joltid, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-09-16

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Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale

Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the company as part of a deal that will let Skype carry on using its core peer-to-peer technology. Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Peer To Peer (P2P), Operational Accounting, Telecommunications, Internet, Finance, Skype, eBay, David Meyer ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-06

News to know: Office Web Apps; Palm; AMD-Intel; Andreessen; Win7 for students

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Office Web Apps go to testers: Ten things to know Zack Whittaker: Office 2010 for...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Web Application, Andrew Nusca, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2009-09-18

Joltid vs. Skype: Is there a workaround?

The legal tussle between Skype and its co-founders is getting ugly, but eBay may have some other technical options at its disposal to undermine the case. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale

should have GPLed the codeand no suit was necessaryRE: Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype saleits funny CPP has part in Skype and you can't even get a local number with skype in Canada without a 3rd party....like c'mon!! Living in Canada sucks no Zune pass no Zune...

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

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Skype: The situation now, and the road ahead

Skype: The situation now, and the road aheadIncompetent Leadership Skype is led by a neophyte CEO that has no clue how to run a company, let alone a company with multiple operations.If John Donahoe had his head in the game at any level, he would have long ago realized that...

Tags: Cellular phones, Leadership, Skype Technologies S.A., ACN, eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

Skype: The situation now, and the road ahead

Over recent weeks, the number of doomsday posts in response to the possible shutdown of the Skype service has swamped the web. But what is the problem, what could happen and how can it be fixed? Joltid, the team behind Kazaa, sold Skype in 2005 to eBay...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Peer To Peer (P2P), Telephony, VOIP, Instant Messaging, Telecommunications, Internet, Networking, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-04

StreamCast sues Kazaa, Skype: here's my take

As fellow VoIP blogger Andy Abramson reports, it has been revealed that back on January 20, Morpheus peer-to-peer technology developer and provider StreamCast Networks, filed a RICO suit against Skype Technologies SA, Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis, and BlueMoon OU (the company that reportedly did a lot of the...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-03-27