Robert Andrews
May 26, 2011 4:19 AM
KaZaA and Napster helped destroy entertainment industry value. Now their co-founders have invested in building legal subscription offerings. In this great video from Paris eG8, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) TV’s Matt Cowan puts Niklas Zennström and Sean Parker on the spot for their past sins, and asks whether a certain such…
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 10, 2011 8:05 AM
Big news today from Rovio, the Finland-based developers behind the hugely successful Angry Birds mobile game: the company has picked up $42 million in funding, a first round round led by no less than Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures, the VC firm founded and led by Skype/Kazaa/Joost founders Niklas Zennstrom…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 21, 2010 11:05 PM
Skype co-founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have raised $165 million for their second venture fund which will mainly back European high growth tech startups. Zennström and Friis—who also started Kazaa and Joost—had initially aimed to raise $266 million for the fund a year ago but downplay the shortfall telling…
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