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gigaom.com - 18 days ago
My Thoughts on the Skype Settlement: Winners & Losers Scorecard
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The final results are in : eBay and private investors led by Silver Lake Partners have struck a deal with Skype founders and JoltID, the technology company controlled by Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. They are also transferring the ownership of intellectual property ...
Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5
techcrunch.com - 15 days ago
Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5
— techcrunch.com — Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5 . It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn’t work out. – Gizmo5’s SIP infrastructure could theoretically replace Skype’s proprietary P2P ... (more) Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5

Comments vote down The Next Web found this 15 days agofound this
Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10%
techcrunch.com - 18 days ago
Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10%
— techcrunch.com — eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype , clearing the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners , Andreessen Horowitz and ... (more) Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, ...

Comments vote down Technologizer found this 18 days agofound this
I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype Founders Set to Get 10 Percent, Option to Buy Three Percent More and Two Board Seats
kara.allthingsd.com - 19 days ago
I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype Founders Set to Get 10 Percent, Option to ...
— kara.allthingsd.com — According to several sources close to the situation, a deal to settle the Skype imbroglio is likely to be announced around the time the markets open tomorrow. While the massive agreement is not yet officially signed–which will settle ... (more) I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype ...

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paidContent Quick Hits 11.6.09
paidContent — ... »  Ancestry.com shares jumped five percent on their first day of trading, although they’re down a tad today. [Associated Press] »  Yahoo settles a trademark infringement lawsuit with cosmetics giant Mary Kay. [Bloomberg] »  Om Malik sorts through the winners and losers in the Skype settlement. [GigaOm] »  In a Fox Business interview, ...

Linkpost | 11.7.2009
TechBlog — ... could. She wears Armani and Oscar de la Renta, and she still codes all night! • Everything you need to know about Android 2.0 - What's new in the latest version of Android, currently available only on the Motorola Droid. • Mozilla posts Firefox 3.5.5 - Stability fixes. • OpenOfficeMouse Is An 18 Button Freak, But I Want It - 18 buttons on a mouse! It's kind of the anti-Magic Mouse. • DONE DEAL: eBay Settles Skype Lawsuit, Founders Return and My Thoughts on the Skype Settlement: Winners & Losers Scorecard • Online Retailers Refusing To ...

Skype Names SIP Guru as Chief Tech Strategist [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... a way around the JoltId stranglehold. As you might know, Skype and Joltid, the company that owns the technology used by Skype (and controlled by founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis), settled with the company last week. ...

paidContent Quick Hits 11.6.09
paidContent — ... »  Ancestry.com shares jumped five percent on their first day of trading, although they’re down a tad today. [Associated Press] »  Yahoo settles a trademark infringement lawsuit with cosmetics giant Mary Kay. [Bloomberg] »  Om Malik sorts through the winners and losers in the Skype settlement. [GigaOm] »  In a Fox Business interview, ...

Skype CEO Outlines Platform Ambitions, Hiring Plans [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... , and its legal troubles with founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis settled, Skype is looking to the future, where it wants to become a ubiquitous real-time communications platform. And that means thinking about the next generation Skype architecture and also hiring a lot of smart people, said CEO Josh Silverman in a conversation earlier today. ...

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