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eBay's Skype sale gets green light
News In addition, the settlement brings Skype and Joltid founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, into the investor group. Zennström and Friis will take a 14 per cent stake in Skype, in... [06 Nov 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile Niklas Zennström is best known as co-founder of Skype - the voice over IP internet telephony service that has been enabling the wired world to talk for free since 2003 and, more recently, to indulge in... [08 Oct 2009]
Skype fighting to dodge shutdown with new tech
News Instead, Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis hung onto the technology via their new company, Joltid, which then licensed it to Skype. Skype is trying to develop new peer-to-peer technology to... [03 Aug 2009]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Niklas Zennström Skype s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote in his... [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Niklas Zennström Skype Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan is an unassuming man, who doesn't use his position to be imposing. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. [01 Aug 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Niklas Zennström BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. [08 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Niklas Zennström and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to... [26 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Niklas Zennström Skype Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the... [03 Mar 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Niklas Zennström Skype Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better... [01 Feb 2008]
CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT
News Niklas Zennström Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days... [11 Dec 2007]
Oracle users demand better support
News Niklas Zennström Skype Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com:... [10 Dec 2007]
Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News Niklas Zennström The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the end of this year. NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to... [05 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Niklas Zennström Skype Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for... [29 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, Kindle and data breaches
News Niklas Zennström Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days... [27 Nov 2007]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News Niklas Zennström Skype The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT... [22 Nov 2007]
