Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the founders of a P2P maze of Skype, Joost and other startups based on code owned by their company Joltid, are now suing one of their own former execs. Wednesday, former Joost CEO Michaelangelo “Mike” Volpi was the only individual included in Joltid’s copyright infringement…

Mike Volpi kept the role of chairman when Joost switched to a white-label tech provider and he left as CEO for Index Ventures, an investor in the video startup. That’s over, too. Volpi told paidContent, following a report on SAI that he was out as chairman, “I will confirm that…

So much for any of the whispers that had Mike Volpi moving to another executive operations role—less than a week after stepping down as CEO of struggling video company Joost, Volpi has surfaced as a partner at venture capital firm Index Ventures. Index was one of the investors in the…

Much-hyped video portal Joost is remaking itself as a “cost-effective” white-label video provider—slashing staff, closing and shaking up its top ranks in the process, possibly as a step towards its sale as a technology company rather than an entertainment platform. Mike Volpi, rumored of late to be on the short…

—Flip’s new video channels: After shaking up the video camera market with the Flip, Pure Digital is moving into video-sharing with the launch of Flip Channels. The new feature lets Flip owners publish, host and share their videos with a free, personalized channel at FlipShare.com; the company will also release…

More evidence that the major video-aggregation sites are morphing into hubs and distributors of content rather than pure destination sites: Joost today announced an agreement to make its library of over 50,000 videos available to users of the homepage of Belgian social-networking site Netlog. According to Quantcast, Netlog reaches about…

Online video site Joost told subscribers it will end all software support for its original software application as of this Friday. The software was a key part of Joost’s video distribution through P2P systems. Now, Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey tells Multichannel News, the development means that P2P as a…

Joost has been robustly criticized since its 2007 launch, in part for lacking decent content. The man in that firing line, Danny Passman, sympathizes with many of the concerns - nay, he echoes them and is in full-on repent mode for some moves he admits were missteps - but, Passman…

Online video site Joost is finally, officially easier to use. The Flash-based, download-free version for browsers can be accessed now but the full-featured version is supposed to launch at midnight. Joost boasts of having the “largest online library of legal video programming.” The company says it has doubled the number…

Joost, the once-hyped online video startup which was a non-starter with a desktop-only client, is now killing it, Om reports. It will go browser only, and will release a small plugin that would embed itself in the browser and allow you to grab files using the P2P technologies that was…

Now that its online programming is ready to go, Warner Brothers Television Group has lined up a roster of distribution partners: Dailymotion, Joost, Sling Media, TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) and Veoh Networks. The sites will create dedicated channels for programming from TheWB.com and KidsWB.com, the two new ad-supported broadband properties WBTVG…

Joost, the online video service which has had more than its share of troubles since its founding, had another story this weekend to contend with, this time a sketchily-sourced story from Times UK. The story said that the London-based company is in for a “major retrenchment” and “is expected to…

—Electronic Arts: Eric Brown, currently CFO at security firm McAfee, will take the same title at Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS). The CFO slot became available earlier this week, with the surprise departure of Warren Jenson. Prior to joining McAfee in 2005, Brown served as President and CFO of Microstrategy from…