bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/8/2008
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BitTorrent lays off more staff, and this time the cuts are deep.
getmiro.com - 11/11/2008
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bittorrent.com - 11/7/2008
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bittorrent.com —
Chief Technology Officer to take the helm at
world’s leading P2P technology provider San Francisco, November 7,...
2008 – BitTorrent, the global standard technology for the delivery of rich media on the Internet, today announced the appointment of Eric ...
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BitTorrent, Inc. Appoints New CEO
online.wsj.com - 11/9/2008
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BitTorrent Inc. has dismissed about half its staff,
according to two people close to the company, in...
a restructuring that includes a new chief executive and a co-founder's departure. Eric Klinker, who previously served as chief technology officer, has ...
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BitTorrent Cuts Half Its Team, Replaces CEO
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BitTorrent In Complete Disarray: President and CEO Leave; 18 Employees Laid Off
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... , the San Francisco-based commercial company that has been trying to develop an online video service and company around the open source P2P delivery technology, has been in deep trouble for a while now, and the issues came to fore this week, as CEO and President of the company have left. The company has also fired about half of its employees, 18 in number, and this ...
BitTorrent axes CEO, 18 employees [Layoffs]
Gawker: valleywag —
BitTorrent, the troubled file-sharing technology startup, has laid off another 18 employees — roughly half of its remaining staff — and fired CEO Doug Walker, replacing him with CTO Eric Klinker. [Bits] ...
P2P and the Economic Downturn: Hello, Browser Toolbars! [NewTeeVee]
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... In Vuze’s case, the layoffs likely had just as much to do with the realization that selling downloads to P2P users simply doesn’t work. BitTorrent has apparently learned the same lesson, as it’s reportedly poised to shutter its unsuccessful download store. Yet Vuze remains committed to its content platform; the company now wants to monetize the distribution of free content through advertising deals. Ad-supported downloads, however, are an equally risky bet during a downturn. Media companies have been passing out pink slips like ...
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