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Rdio: Great Music, For A Price
inc.com 1 week, 5 days agoThe founders of Skype and Kazaa have moved onto their next digital venture: Rdio, a streaming music service. Will listeners subscribe? In 2008, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the Scandinavian founders of Skype and Kazaa, started working on Rdio because they were convinced that music listening is shifting permanently from a download model (like iTunes) to one streamed on-demand from the cloud (like Pandora). Initially with funding from Zennström's venture capital firm,when Skype was sold twice in recent y
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Final Nail In The Joost Coffin: Adconion Rebrands, Folds Video Service Into Smartclip
techcrunch.com 3 weeks agoLooks like the final frame has been reached for Joost , the online video service originally started by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis and then eventually sold to the Adconion Media Group : Adconion today announced that it would fold in and rebrand Joost Media into smartclip , a video advertising company that it bought in November 2011 . The company says it is making the move in order to better serve the U.S. market, where it is now launching services, and presumably believes that using one
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