Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis founded which Internet telephone company?
"Ecuador, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Louisville, Malaysia, Mexico, Miami, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE and Uruguay. The organization expanded to 27 countries in 2017, including expansions in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia. Endeavor holds a gala fundraiser event in New York City every year. Gala honorees have included: Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone Group, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, Founders of Skype and Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp. Endeavor has a biennial of leading entrepreneurs, investors and stakeholders to discuss and learn about strategies for"
"in 1991 at the European telecom operator Tele2. He went on to serve in various business development roles including launching and being responsible for European Internet Service Provider business get2net and as CEO of the everyday.com portal. In 2000 Zennström and Janus Friis co-founded Kazaa, the peer-to-peer file sharing application. Niklas served as CEO and the program became the world's most downloaded Internet software in 2003. After lawsuits were filed by members of the music and motion picture industry in the USA, Kazaa was sold to Sharman Networks. Zennström then founded and served as CEO at Joltid, a software company"
"to leave Tele2. Friis moved into Zennström's small apartment in Amsterdam in January 2000 where they started developing KaZaA, the company responsible for the most popular software for use with the FastTrack file sharing network protocol. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström developed the FastTrack protocol in 2001. From the success of KaZaA’s peer-to-peer technology the duo co-founded Joltid, a software company developing and marketing peer-to-peer solutions and peer-to-peer traffic optimization technologies to companies. Friis is also co-founder of Altnet, a network that sells commercial music to KaZaA users. Friis founded the online music streaming service Rdio with Zennstroem in 2010."
"Group in November 2009. Independently, Friis founded video streaming startup Vdio in 2011. Friis and Ahti Heinla founded Starship Technologies in 2014, to develop small self-driving delivery robots. Friis had no formal higher education, dropping out of high school before starting a job at the help desk of CyberCity, one of Denmark’s first Internet service providers. He met Zennström in 1996. At that time, Zennström headed Tele2 in Denmark, and Friis was hired to run its customer support. Friis and Zennström worked together at Tele2 to launch get2net, another Danish ISP, and the portal everyday.com. After this, the partners decided"
"international investment firm focused on the technology sector. The firm looks to invest in fast-growing technology companies that have innovative business models or are new enabling technologies. Headquartered in London with offices in Beijing, São Paulo, Tokyo and Istanbul, it has so far invested in more than 50 companies on four continents. Some of the team’s current and previous investments include category leaders such as Supercell, Rovio, Jawbone, Fon, Fab, Klarna and Skype. Together with his wife Catherine, he founded Zennström Philanthropies to direct their charitable giving in the fields of climate change, human rights and social entrepreneurship. Niklas is"
"It filed for bankruptcy in November 2015 and announced the sale of assets to Pandora Radio for $75 million. Friis and Ahti Heinla founded Starship Technologies in 2014, to develop small self-driving delivery robots. In September 2016, the robots took the streets in San Francisco in a test authorized by the city. Friis was named in ""Time Magazine""'s list of 100 most influential people in 2006. In 2006 Janus Friis got the prestigious award “IT-prisen” (""The IT Prize"") in his home country, given by the Danish IT industry and IDG, for his work and innovation. He and Zennström were also"
"by a cash injection of $3 million from San Francisco-based True Ventures. Martin Källström Martin Kallstrom (born 1975) is a Swedish tech entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Narrative, a tech start up marketing a clip camera, as well as Twingly, a blog search engine. Kallstrom was born in Sweden. He studied computer science at Linköping University where he graduated with a Master of Science degree. After graduating, Kallstrom worked as a programmer at Framfrab, a Swedish e-consultancy firm. In 200, he travelled to Tokyo where he worked as a freelance graphics and web designer, honing skills and experience"
"developing and marketing peer-to-peer solutions and traffic optimization technologies. Zennström also co-founded Altnet, the world's first secure peer-to-peer network promoting commercial content to consumers integrating promotion, distribution, and payment of digital content. Zennström's most notable success to date is Skype, a telephony company based on peer-to-peer principles. In October 2005 Skype was acquired by eBay for €2.1 billion ($2.6 billion) plus the potential to earn further performance-based bonuses up to €1.2bn. Zennström was CEO from Skype's inception until September 2007. During that time, Skype became the global leader in Internet voice communications with more than 309m registered users within five"
"with KPN International, Julf became Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for KPNQwest. He is now an Internet entrepreneur and is serving on the board of various companies (e.g. BaseN, which is based in Finland). Helsingius lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Helsingius has studied music and traveled widely. His interests include active sports, like mountain climbing, and aviation. Johan Helsingius Johan ""Julf"" Helsingius, born in 1961 in Helsinki, Finland, started and ran the Anon.penet.fi internet remailer. Anon.penet.fi was one of the most popular Internet remailers, handling 10,000 messages a day. The server was the first of its kind to use a password-protected"
"services are available to service providers through InPhonex's reseller program. InPhonex was created in 2003 by Bill Nesbitt and Kooi Lim to capitalize on the opportunity to spread the revolution of VoIP communications technology. Nesbitt founded Hiway Technologies, which was acquired by Verio in 1998 for $400 million. Lim founded Superclone, which sold more than $150 million in computers and computer components from 1988 to 2004. In 1996 Lim also founded KCL.net, an ISP that provides hosting, collocation, and broadband services to businesses and consumers. In order to build out the organization, Nesbitt and Lim brought in Todd Hirshorn. Hirshorn"
"and Hans Mellström (the W and M in the company's name) in 1969 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2008 the company was one of Sweden's leading IT company and had regional offices in numerous cities located in the Nordic countries. The company offered overall solutions in IT related areas. It was divided in three branches: branding, specialist and infrastructure, where its main areas were the secondary sector of industry, commerce and logistics, bank, finance and insurance, telecommunications, public sector, medicine and health care, and utility. The company was acquired by Logica PLC in 2006. Its main market was the Nordic countries"
"Martin Källström Martin Kallstrom (born 1975) is a Swedish tech entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Narrative, a tech start up marketing a clip camera, as well as Twingly, a blog search engine. Kallstrom was born in Sweden. He studied computer science at Linköping University where he graduated with a Master of Science degree. After graduating, Kallstrom worked as a programmer at Framfrab, a Swedish e-consultancy firm. In 200, he travelled to Tokyo where he worked as a freelance graphics and web designer, honing skills and experience that would eventually lead to him starting his own business. Prior to"
"years of launch. After the sale of Skype, Zennström went on in 2007 to launch Joost, an online video distribution service (where Zennström was co-chairman). In 2009 Zennström was part of the investment consortium that bought Skype Technologies from eBay and re-joined the Skype board. Currently, Zennström runs Atomico. Based in London, the firm primarily invests in fast growing tech companies with the ability to transform their respective industries. Through Atomico they have invested in over 50 companies on four continents, including Supercell, Rovio, Last.fm, Fon, Rdio, Fab, Klarna and Skype. In May 2011 Skype was purchased by Microsoft for"
"of the available clients, requiring a phone number or email for registration. It is hosted inside the European Union and protected by European Union laws. Many employees working on Wire have previously worked with Skype, and Skype's co-founder Janus Friis is backing the project. Audio quality is one of Wire's key selling points. Wire Swiss GmbH was founded in Fall 2012 by Jonathan Christensen, Alan Duric and Priidu Zilmer, who previously worked at Skype and Microsoft. Jonathan Christensen previously co-founded Camino Networks in 2005 with Alan Duric, who also co-founded Telio. Camino networks was later acquired by Skype, a division"
"Atomico Atomico is an international technology investment firm headquartered in London, with offices in Beijing, Istanbul, São Paulo, Stockholm and Tokyo. Its founder and CEO is Niklas Zennström, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Skype and Kazaa. The team includes Chris Barnes, Yann De Vries, Mattias Ljungman, and Hiro Tamura with over 57 staff. The company focuses on new consumer technologies that have the potential to transform markets, and places an emphasis on strong management. Zennström has stated that he founded the company in 2006 after ""seeing that new technology would disrupt not just consumer markets, but the venture-capital industry itself""."
"Niklas Zennstrom until it was sold to eBay for over $2.6 billion, and subsequently led the negotiations for Joltid to become a major shareholder of Skype in its acquisition from eBay in November 2009 and re-joined the board of directors. He was the longest-serving board member of Skype, serving from its start to the end sale when Skype was sold to Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion. He is a member of the board of directors of Synthean, and is chairman of Tag-It Pacific, Inc. In January 2000, MCV called him ""The Deal Maker"" and published his ""Ten Rules of"
"in buying the patent was to protect innovation in social networking and to prevent large companies from interfering with this. Pincus and Hoffman have never enforced the patent. Pincus was a founding investor in Napster, Facebook, Friendster, Snapchat, Xiaomi and Twitter. He was also an early investor in JD.com, Brightmail (later acquired by Symantec for $400m), and Buddy Media (acquired by Salesforce for $800m). In 2015, Pincus invested in the nootropics company HVMN (formerly Nootrobox), man-made diamond company Diamond Foundry, and in 2014 automated investment service firm Wealthfront, among others. See main article: Zynga In July 2007 Pincus founded his"
"Greenfield Capital Partners. It then reverted to the Telfort name. In July 2005 Telfort was sold to telephone company KPN. In October 2007, KPN, which had bought the Dutch operations of Tiscali some months earlier, rebranded Tiscali's Internet services as Telfort Internet. It has, since then, expanded its operations to include fixed phone lines and digital television (IPTV) subscriptions. Telfort Telfort B.V. is a Dutch mobile telecommunication company, and a subsidiary of KPN. It operates GSM mobile telecommunications service in the Netherlands. It markets itself as being the cheapest option available, and goes to some lengths to give the appearance"
"it. The suit alleged that Zuckerberg had copied ConnectU's idea and illegally used source code intended for the website Zuckerberg was hired to develop. Facebook countersued with respect to Social Butterfly, a Winklevoss Chang Group project. The countersuit named among the defendants ConnectU, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, Divya Narendra, and Wayne Chang, founder of i2hub. An agreement settling both cases was reached in February, 2008, with the Winklevoss party receiving $20 million in cash and $45 million in Facebook stock. In May 2010, however, ConnectU accused Facebook of misrepresenting the value of the stock that it turned over to the"
"Kevin Henrikson Kevin Henrikson is a San Francisco based entrepreneur, angel investor, engineer, and speaker who has headed several software companies, including Zimbra, Alpha Brand Media and Acompli. Kevin Henrikson earned his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2000. At Zimbra, Henrikson served as the Director of Engineering and managed the development of Zimbra Advanced Client (AJAX based) and Standard Client (JSP/HTML based). Before joining Zimbra in 2005, Henrikson was a leader for Federal Express, iSearch (SAAS startup), and Openwave Systems. Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007 for $350 million, which"
"had failed to meet certain earn-out targets, growth was decelerating, product development had slowed significantly, and in October 2007 eBay took a $1.4 billion 'impairment' on the value of Skype, admitting it had overpaid, and now valuing the company at about $2.7 billion. In October 2008, analysis revealed TOM-skype — the Chinese version of Skype run by TOM Online — sends content of text messages and encryption keys to monitoring servers. For the six months after the departure of Zennström and Friis, Michael van Swaaij led the company as Interim CEO, until the appointment of Josh Silverman in February 2008."
"picture was used without permission one of the Woo Media properties. Woo Media removed the picture, issued an official apology to Crawford for the oversight, and introduced screening measures. Woo Media Woo Media was an online chat and video social network which offered a variety of interactive sites that provided live social entertainment through a computer or mobile device. The company raised $17 million in venture capital from several investors including Index Ventures, Atomico (founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis), Mangrove Capital Partners, and Klaus Hommels. One analyst valued Woo Media at $41 million at the time it was"
"closed its offices at 5700 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles, CA. Zentropy Partners Zentropy Partners is the defunct name for an existing global internet professional services company headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. The company was co-founded by Patrick Bradley and Ryan Magnussen in 1995 with the aim of becoming the global provider of Internet services. For the next several years Zentropy gained recognition for excellence in interactive web-page design, notably developing the ""Nesquik pan-European Strategy"" which would serve as a model for child-oriented website design in the UK. The company expanded and established as many as 47 offices worldwide with"
"The Finnish state was obliged to pay 4 million euros from the trial. Elisa Saunalahti Saunalahti (previously Jippii) is a Finnish mobile phone operator and an internet service provider. The company was founded in 1998 when three middle-sized internet operators merged. The company is now owned by Elisa. In addition to DSL and mobile phone service, Saunalahti also offers Finnish users Voice over IP without a monthly fee. The service includes free calls to Saunalahti mobile numbers. Saunalahti doesn't operate its own cellular network and thus relies on Elisa network. Saunalahti offers various mobile plans, most of which are cheaper"
"Tommy Ahlers Tommy Ahlers (born 18 November 1975) is a Danish Minister of Science, Technology, Information and Higher Education and CEO. Ahlers is best known for the social networking and mobile backup site ZYB, launched in 2005 by two entrepreneurs from Copenhagen, Morten Lund and Ole Kristensen, and sold to Vodafone Europe BV for nearly $50m in May 2008. Before ZYB, where he has held the position of CEO since the company's inception, Ahlers spent six years in strategy and management, partly in the mobile industry. After ZYB, Ahlers invested in and became CEO of Podio in 2010. Podio was"
"Stephen Stokols Stephen Stokols is an American entrepreneur, technologist, investor and executive located in Los Angeles, California. Stokols currently serves as the CEO of FreedomPop, the company he co-founded in August 2012 with Skype Founder Niklas Zennström. As CEO of FreedomPop, Stokols has raised over $109 million in venture capital and grown the company to over 100 employees. In 2015, Stokols expanded FreedomPop’s free mobile service internationally. In early 2016, Stokols closed a $50 million Series C financing for FreedomPop and launched a Global Hotspot with free mobile data in over 25 countries. In 2017, Stokols turned down a merger"
"Jon Callas Jon Callas is an American computer security expert, software engineer, user experience designer, and technologist who is the co-founder and former CTO of the global encrypted communications service Silent Circle. He has held major positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple, PGP, and Entrust, and is considered ""one of the most respected and well-known names in the mobile security industry."" Callas is credited with creating several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards, including OpenPGP, DKIM, and ZRTP, which he wrote. Prior to his work at Entrust, he was Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of PGP Corporation and the former"
"was the result of exceptional number of logins after a Windows patch reboot (""Patch Tuesday""). In November, there was controversy when it was announced that users allocated certain London 020 numbers (specifically those beginning '7870') would lose them, after negotiations with the provider of this batch of numbers broke down. By early 2008, the tumultuous ownership relations between the founders and eBay had resulted in significant leadership churn, with a succession of Skype presidents including Niklas Zennström, Rajiv Dutta, Alex Kazim, Niklas Zennström (again), and Henry Gomez, all holding that title at various points between 2005 and 2007. The business"
"Aspiro Aspiro AB is a Norwegian technology company founded in 1998. The company mainly provides subscription-based lossless music streaming services under two brands, Tidal and WiMP. The company is headquartered in Norway, with additional offices in Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. As of the end of December 2014, Aspiro's music streaming services had 500,000 paying customers. The company was founded in 1998 by Jörgen Adolfsson, Christer Månsson and Klas Hallqvist. The founders knew each other from working together at Europolitan, one of Sweden's three largest mobile phone operators at the time, which was partly owned by Vodafone. It was not"
"other aspects of the user experience. In December 2013, Rebtel launched Sendly, a new app that lets users top up the prepaid mobile phones of friends and family abroad. Rebtel’ founder, Hjalmar Winbladh, co-founded and spent 7 years as President and CEO of Sendit AB, taking the firm public before it was acquired by Microsoft for $127.5 million. Rebtel appointed Andreas Bernström, formerly COO of TradeDoubler, as CEO in September 2009. Bernström left the company and was succeeded by current CEO Magnus Larsson in late 2015. In 2014 a group of former telco executives from Swedish investment company Kinnevik-owned Tele2"
"Johan Helsingius Johan ""Julf"" Helsingius, born in 1961 in Helsinki, Finland, started and ran the Anon.penet.fi internet remailer. Anon.penet.fi was one of the most popular Internet remailers, handling 10,000 messages a day. The server was the first of its kind to use a password-protected PO box system for sending and receiving e-mails. In the 1980s, he was the system administrator for the central Finnish news node as well as a founding members of the Finnish UNIX User Group. In a 1994 interview with Wired, he said he created the service because ""It's important to be able to express certain views"
"from Sweden and Janus Friis from Denmark, it was introduced in March 2001 by their Dutch company Consumer Empowerment. It appeared during the end of the first generation of P2P networks – Napster shut down in July of that year. There are three FastTrack-based networks, and they use mutually incompatible versions of the protocol. The most popular clients on each are Kazaa (and its variations), Grokster, and iMesh. For more information about the various lawsuits surrounding Kazaa and Sharman Networks, see Kazaa. FastTrack uses supernodes to improve scalability. To allow downloading from multiple sources, FastTrack employs the UUHash hashing algorithm."
"was a previous colleague of Nesbitt at Hiway and founder of Mednetrix, a web technology provider to the medical industry sold to WebMd in 2000. Hirshorn created VarPhonex to provide private label VoIP services leveraging the InPhonex technology . VarPhonex enables resellers to sell SIP Termination, SIP Trunking, International DID numbers and other VoIP services under their brand name. In 2009 VarPhonex Partner Solutions was launched to service the needs of application service providers and high-volume distribution channels. Inphonex InPhonex is a global telecommunications firm offering telephony services in more than 150 countries. Miami-based InPhonex serves communications service providers, businesses"