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A tour of Jolicloud's netbook Linux OS

...French Linux company is backed by venture capitalists including Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype Read more

20 July, 2010 by David Meyer

Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5bn

...group include CPP Investment Board, Andreessen Horowitz, Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis — via their company Joltid — and eBay, which bought Skype in 2005... Read more

10 May, 2011 by David Meyer

Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5bn, reports say

...most of the company back to its founders, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, and the Silver Lake investment group. The auction company kept a... Read more

10 May, 2011

Skype founders raise £110m for European start-ups

Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have raised $165m to invest in European start-up technology companies... Read more

23 March, 2010 by Richard Thurston

eBay finalises $2.75bn sale of Skype

...of the settlement of a copyright suit that the Skype co-founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, filed against eBay over Skype's technology. At... Read more

20 November, 2009 by Caroline McCarthy

Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale

Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the company as... Read more

6 November, 2009 by David Meyer

Kazaa founders tout P2P VoIP

Kazaa co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have a new target: the telephone industry. They... Read more

12 September, 2003 by Ben Charny

Skype for SIP goes public

...Silver Lake, with other stakeholders including Skype's founders, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, eBay, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB... Read more

2 December, 2009 by David Meyer

Skype founders sue eBay over copyright dispute

...Joltid. In 2006, eBay bought Skype for $2.6bn, but co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström retained the rights to Skype's key peer... Read more

17 September, 2009 by Michelle Meyers

eBay sells Skype for $2bn

...year. Along the way, reports surfaced that Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis were interested in repurchasing the company, with the aid of private... Read more

1 September, 2009 by Jonathan Skillings and Steven Musil

Skype sale announcement expected from eBay

...of next year. Meanwhile, reports surfaced that Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis were interested in repurchasing the company, with the aid of private... Read more

1 September, 2009 by Steven Musil

Skype aims to avoid shutdown with new tech

...the heart of Skype's functionality. Instead, Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis hung onto the technology via their new company, Joltid, which then... Read more

31 July, 2009 by David Meyer

Skype founders' spat with eBay threatens IPO

...in 2010. However, according to a report in Bloomberg, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (through their new company Joltid) have accused eBay of breaking terms... Read more

29 June, 2009

eBay sells StumbleUpon back to founders

...to its creators. The WSJ reported on Monday that Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have teamed up with a group of private equity firms (including... Read more

14 April, 2009

Nigeria Telecoms Triple play blues.

In the past few years, “triple play” has probably been the biggest buzz word in telecommunications worldwide,promising... Read more

13 March, 2008

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