insolvencynews.com - 10/14/2009
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Online video sharing company and wholly owned subsidiary of Netherlands based company Joost Technologies BV. The company had failed to sustain a significant share of the internet video industry and was unable to address this effectively through a re-positioning of its services. Information ...
uk.techcrunch.com - 10/14/2009
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The once immensely hyped and heavily-funded video company
Joost continues its unceremonious journey to the deadpool .
TechCrunch Europe has learnt that the startup, famously co-founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström , put its UK ...
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On Deadpool Watch: Joost Puts UK Subsidiary Into Liquidation
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On Deadpool Watch: Joost Puts UK Subsidiary Into Liquidation
TechCrunch —
... , put its UK subsidiary into liquidation at the beginning of this month. The reasons that are given are not all too surprising: the liquidator says the company has "failed to sustain a significant share of the internet video industry and was unable to address this effectively through a ...
More dramatic developments after the liquidation of Joost UK
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... But Joost underperformed. It began redundancies in summer and nobody was surprised when, two weeks ago, David Rubin & Partners LLP, a London-based firm of licensed insolvency practitioners, announced "Joost UK Limited, the online video company and wholly owned subsidiary of Netherlands based company Joost Technologies BV, has entered into liquidation. The company had failed to sustain a significant share of the internet video industry and was unable to address this effectively through a re-positioning of its services". ...
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