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- News to know: SAP TechEd; Yahoo Search revamp; Poor man's all-in-one PC
- Notable headlines: Dan Farber: O'Reilly talks turning IT inside out and data lock-in at SAP TechEd. Dennis Howlett: Will SAP Business ByDesign have AJAX goodness? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Response Point phone software for small businesses set to RTM. Microsoft buys Jellyfish comparison-shopping search...
- Tags: Software, Yahoo Search, Larry Dignan, PC, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Zennstrom, Tools & Techniques, E-health, Professional Development, Management, Healthcare, Career
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
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- With friends like these... how can Seesmic fail?
- Having secured $5.5 million of funding from investment group Atomico (Skype's Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and co.), Loic Le Meur admits he didn't need the money. And yet he's enlisted a further twelve individual backers for his new startup Seesmic -- which has been described as "Twitter for video" --...
- Tags: Board, Connection, Image, Investor, Seesmic, Pendants, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Seesmic raises $6 million in funding
- Video startup Seesmic has raised $6 million in series A funding as its video conversation experiment continues. Seesmic, now in closed beta, is led by Loic Le Meur and has backing by some big names--including Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, Steve Case of AOL fame, Michael Parekh, managing...
- Tags: P2P, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Peer To Peer (P2P), Marketing, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- News to know: Digital media ethics; Adobe flaw; AT&T; Gamemaster interview
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Where do you stand on digital media ethics? Ed Burnette: Interview with a Game Master. IBM, 'Second Life' open borders for virtual worlds. Ryan Naraine: Adobe warns of critical PageMaker, Illustrator flaws Russell Shaw:...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Digital Media, Gartner Inc., AT&T Corp., TiVo Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ethics, Flaw, Business Ethics, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Leadership, Management, Web Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Skype co-founder Zennstrom implies eBay overpaid for Skype
- Skype co-founder Zennstrom implies eBay overpaid for SkypeCLUELESS MANAGEMENTEVERYONE told them at the time they were overpaying. How could it be so obvious to everyone else and yet eBay management still insisted on paying that much money? CLUELESS. This makes you wonder if they run the rest of their business...
- Tags: INTERNET, E-mail, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Skype co-founder Zennstrom implies eBay overpaid for Skype
- Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, who resigned from Skype last week kind of said today that well, yea, eBay did overpay for Skype. "We had to chart the trajectory of growth and how fast that would run, but we found out that was a...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- eBay SEC filing notes departure of Skype's SVP Strategy and Strategic Partners chiefs
- Just in case you are curious to learn more about what's gone down with eBay and Skype today, I've included the text of an 8-K U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by eBay today. The relevent section is entitled "Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Termination of...
- Tags: Partnership, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Earn, Seller, Workforce Management, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Poll: what should eBay do with Skype?
- Henry Blodget of Silicon Valley Insider comments on the departure of Skype CEO Nilklas Zennstrom today, as well as what he terms eBay taking a $1.4 billion asset-impairment charge, Henry notes: Skype has missed the targets Zennstrom and his team set at the time of the sale. ...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Telephony, Team Management, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Zennstrom: Skype's in good shape. Me: oh, yea?
- Responding to analyses/taunts from the blogosphere that he's being pushed aside by eBay because of displeasure with the state of Skype, newly departing Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom refutes these charges in an interview just posted on ThomasCrampton.com. "Some people have been critical of...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- eBay: Skype wasn't all that after all
- eBay confessed its Skype sins on Monday. The price tag: A $1.4 billion asset impairment charge, a new Skype CEO and missed financial targets. A little more than two years ago, eBay bought Skype all resources for $2.6 billion in up-front cash and stock and "potential performance-based consideration."...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Pay-per-call Communication, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Skype CEO steps down. This can mean only one thing: eBay ain't happy
- eBay said this morning that Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom has stepped down. Zennstrom, who will remain as the non-executive chairman of Sikype, is being replaced on an interim basis by Michael van Swaaij, eBay's Chief Strategy Officer. An active search is being conducted...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Corporate Communications, IPO, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Financial Services, Finance, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- The Joost-Viacom love in (and what they meant to say)
- Its official. Joost and Viacom are in cahoots. As noted earlier, this deal see Techmeme discussion is more about building up a potential YouTube rival than it is about anything else. That said Joosts peer-to-peer architecture has the potential to...
- Tags: General, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Hollywood on Demand, Broadband
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Viacom gives Joost a boost
- Is Joost old medias answer to YouTube?Viacom, just days after telling Googles YouTube to pull all of its content over copyright problems, is expected to announce a licensing deal with Internet video startup Joost. The deal, reported in the Wall Street Journal subscription required, gives Joost instant heft. Joost has...
- Tags: General, Google, Hollywood on Demand, Personal Technology, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- More from the Web 2.0 Summit
- Yesterdays Web 2.0 Summit included a few highlights worth mentioning. Elinor Mills covered Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstroms chat with John Heileman, Skype plans to offer bloggers and others the ability to hold audio chats in the next version of it service. The next version of Skype will enable people to...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, web2con
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Web 2.0 Summit: The players and the products
- The Web 2.0 Conference/Summit gets underway today in San Francisco, and I will be posting from there. John Battelle and Tim OReilly are hosting the pricey invitation only event, which will feature interviews with some of the high and mighty players in the Web 2.0 kingdom, such as Marc Benioff...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Why I'm OK with Chinese censorship of Skype IM
- Skype has admitted that its Chinese partner company Tom Online - which doesn't yet offer SkypeOut by the way- is censoring some Skype text messages."Tom had implemented a text filter, which is what everyone else in that market is doing," Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom tells the U.K.-based Financial Times business...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Tom Online
- Blog posts 2006-04-20
- 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
- Exclusive: Skype planning a "Skype for Business" offering
- While I was at the IP Telephony conference last week in Los Angeles, I heard Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom tell a lunch crowd via a live feed that Skype was going to rely mostly on third-party apps and partners to pursue the enterprise VoIP market.But then today, I see this...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-11-03
- Skype CEO updates where company is headed
- At the Internet Telephony Conference & Expo yesterday, Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom gave the luncheon keynote address.Zennstrom was in London and we were in Los Angeles, but what does that matter?Here are the main takeaways from his presentation:Skype is aggressively planning to open its payment system for ringtones and third-party...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-10-26
- Skype CEO: Wi-Fi will be a big part of our strategy
- Taiwan-based DigiTimes has posted an interview (reg. rqd.) with Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom.And from reading the English-language translation of the piece originally posted in Chinese, it would appear that Skype is casting a big part of their lot with Wi-Fi."As P2P VoIP services are our main business; the development of...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-09-07
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