The world is about to get another online video service. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who co-created KaZaA, Skype, Joost and Rdio, is se… Read More »
Industry Moves: Joost; Trinity Mirror; Orange Digital
By Ingrid Lunden
Jul. 22, 2011, 8:34pm
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– Joost: The P2P online premium video streaming company Joost, founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are no longer involved but it’s… Read More »
Ad Network Adconion Secures $34 Million To Support Acquisition Plans
By David Kaplan
May. 10, 2011, 12:20am
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Adconion Media Group has secured nearly $34 million (£21 million) in a financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The ad network, which is based i… Read More »
In The Mobile Music Landgrab, Rdio Signs On With Verizon
By Ingrid Lunden
May. 4, 2011, 5:42pm
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As big guns like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) reportedly gear up to launch their own music streaming services, the smaller sta… Read More »
For all the fuss over Steve Burke laying out the planned structure for a post-approval Comcast-NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), you’d think this wa… Read More »
– Skype: The VOiP firm is adding game firm Mig33′s chief marketer Doug Bewsher as its own chief marketing officer, based in Luxembourg to “… Read More »
Industry Moves: Bauer Media, Guardian Local, Adconion
By Ingrid Lunden
Jan. 29, 2010, 4:11pm
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- Bauer: Carl Lyons has left his job as digital marketing director for Bauer Media. The move follows another change in the digital team earl… Read More »
We’re not at this year’s Le Web, the Paris web shindig that has itself at times proved controversial (bitching and temperature control). But… Read More »
Joost isn’t dead, it’s just getting more advertising. Adconion’s main aim in acquiring the video firm is to offer its web player to brand m… Read More »
So Joost’s been put out of its misery and its assets have been acquired by Santa Monica, CA-based online ad network Adconion Media Group. Te… Read More »
When Joost wound up its UK office last month, it looked like just a strategic response to it having given up on the VOD game. But, in doing… Read More »
[With Staci D. Kramer] For weeks, Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have claimed in legal filings and through representatives… Read More »
More Must Reads
By Patrick Smith
Oct. 14, 2009, 6:37pm
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Joost is liquidating its UK division as it works to shrink the business following its switch from a video portal to a white-label video prov… Read More »
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,… Read More »
When the virtually wound-down Joost confirmed to us late last week that former CEO Mike Volpi has also exited as chairman, it didn’t tell us… Read More »
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 i… Read More »
Joost was squeezed out of the market by broadcasters picking their own VOD channels instead of aggregators, acknowledges Mike Volpi, who res… Read More »
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