crunchbase.com - 12/13/2008
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Skype is a peer-to-peer Internet telephony service that is free for Skype-to-Skype calls. The service also allows Skype users to call mobiles and landlines, and vice-versa. Skype has special charge plans for non-Skype-to-Skype calls. Skype is expanding from its traditional computer-based calls ...
usb.brando.com.hk - 12/9/2008
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news.bbc.co.uk - 12/6/2008
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news.bbc.co.uk —
A freeware application for the iPod Touch can
turn the music player into a virtual mobile phone....
Truphone uses wi-fi technology in an iPod Touch to allow users to make calls to other iPod Touch owners and Google Talk's messaging service users. The ...
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Wireless turns iPod into a phone
downloadsquad.com - 12/12/2008
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downloadsquad.com —
There's a new beta version of Skype available
for Windows users. Skype 4 beta 3 looks a...
lot like Skype 4 beta 2, but it packs a few new features, including: Bandwidth manager that should improve call quality Full history feature that ...
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Skype 4 beta 3 released for Windows
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Joie De Vivre: The Europeans Are Out To Lunch
TechCrunch —
... My response, at about 17:40: the joy of life is great, but all these two hour lunches over a bottle or two of great wine and general unwillingness to do whatever it takes to compete and win is the reason why all the big public Internet companies are U.S. based. And those European startups that do manage to break through cultural and tax hurdles and find success are quickly gobbled up by those U.S. companies. Skype (acquired by eBay) and MySQL ( ...
Why Great European Entrepreneurs Move To The Valley
TomsTechBlog.com —
... My response, at about 17:40: the joy of life is great, but all these two hour lunches over a bottle or two of great wine and general unwillingness to do whatever it takes to compete and win is the reason why all the big public Internet companies are U.S. based. And those European startups that do manage to break through cultural and tax hurdles and find success are quickly gobbled up by those U.S. companies. Skype (acquired by eBay) and MySQL ( ...
World Economic Forum Announces New Batch Of Young Global Leaders (Mark Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley, Kevin Rose And More)
TechCrunch —
... of the world”.
The list of honorees, besides celebrities like Coldplay’s Chris Martin and F1 legend Michael Schumacher, includes a good number of people from the technology and Internet industry, so here’s a quick run-down of the names you might know:
Mark Zuckerberg - founder and CEO of Facebook
Kevin Rose - founder of Digg
Chad Hurley - co-founder and CEO of YouTube
Josh Silverman - CEO of Skype
Michael Birch - founder and CEO of Bebo
Premal Shah - ...
Ebay In Litigation With Skype Founders Over Key Technology
TechCrunch —
Perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, firing Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom as CEO in 2007 and paying out only 1/3 of the potential earnout wasn’t the best idea. Zennstrom seems to be holding quite a grudge.
eBay is developing new peer-to-peer software to run the Skype service, they revealed in a quarterly SEC statement.
The existing peer-to-peer software is controlled by Joltid, a company controlled by Skype’s founders Zennstrom and Janus Friis. The software was not acquired by eBay in its 2005 ...
Skype Sniffing Around Web Chat Startups
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Cash4Gold Absolutely Raking In The Money
TechCrunch —
... and possibly other investors as well. Mangrove is notable because they’re a European firm (and also one of the first investors in Skype). ...
Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Patent Claims Against Skype, eBay
TechCrunch —
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss patent claims against Skype and its parent company (for now) eBay relating to uniform network technology. The federal appeals court affirmed without comment the dismissal of claims brought by Peer Communications, a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation, reports Law360.
Acacia Research’s subisidiaries are in the business (PDF) of acquiring, developing, licensing and enforcing patents, according to its website.
One of those ...
The Fight For Skype
TechCrunch —
... Don’t be fooled. Even though there hasn’t been any news on the various lawsuits around Skype’s intellectual property ownership, that doesn’t mean things aren’t happening behind the scenes. ...
Skype Founders Assembling Killer Team For New Online Music Startup
TechCrunch —
... – former General Manager of Desktop Products at Skype and prior to that Director, Product Strategy/Business Developement at AOL and before that Senior Program Manager at ICQ. His recruitment seems to suggest that the Rdio service will not be exclusively browser-based. ...
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gigaom.com 1/22/2009 — eBay today turned in a lukewarm performance for the fourth quarter of 2008, posting sales of $2.04 billion vs. an average forecast of $2.12 billion. Earnings per share were a penny better than expected, at 40 cents a share. Amidst all this ...
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Is Skype for sale?
news.cnet.com 1/27/2009 —
Comments from eBay's CEO have sparked speculation that the online marketplace may be looking to unload Skype. But any suitor that comes knocking on eBay's door will likely have to pay a hefty price tag for the Internet phone service.
The ...
Joost: The sequel —
CNET News.com 12/16/2008
After blockbuster hype, the online video start-up debuted to some rough reviews. Now, with an iPhone app and a slew of new deals, it's back in the spotlight.
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