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Janus Friis

Type: Person

Name: Janus Friis

Title: Entrepreneur and Investor

Date of Birth: --/--/1976

Place of Birth: Denmark

Nationality: Denmark

Fact Sheet: Biography for Janus Friis

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Dailymotion SA

Shooting His Own Foot

President Franois Hollande of France has recently been on a campaign to change the widely held perception that his administration is hostile to business. He has sounded more welcoming to foreign investment and has promised to lower capital gains taxes. ... [Published New York Times - May 04 2013]

Entities: Dailymotion SA, Hostile, Yahoo! Inc, Janus Friis, Niklas Zennström

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Skype

Skype is an internet success story

Internet telephony system Skype first emerged in 2003 and is now used by more than 300 million people worldwide.Few internet advances have compressed space between people as thoroughly as Skype.The internet telephony service began in 2003 and is now used ... [Published Special Broadcasting Service - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Skype, Janus Friis, Tony Bates, Internet Telephony, Niklas Zennström

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 4 reports

Janus Friis

Skype co-founder Janus Friis is working on a stealthy new product incubator

Skype co-founder Janus Friis is getting ready to launch a new venture: Block Talent Partners, a recruiting agency that has been working with Friis on some of his other ventures, is currently looking for senior engineering talent for a stealthy new incubator. ... [Published GigaOM - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Janus Friis, Skype, Rdio Inc

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

WANdisco Plc

Tech London Advocates: Just what capital entrepreneurs need?

‘Advocacy group’ – a term with the ring of a talking shop about it. Lots of well-intentioned chums from a cosy sector promising to champion a “veh, veh, important” cause, and enjoying each other’s hospitality while they’re at it.Just another excuse to ... [Published startups.co.uk - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: London, Entrepreneur, WANdisco Plc

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 04 2013 - 1 reports

Rdio introduces streaming site Vdio, provides yet another on-demand video service to online viewers

We'd heard murmurs about Vdio being eventually launched over in the United Kingdom, but, aside from that, details still remained relatively scared. Well, now we have official word that Rdio's planning to make it its own platform for streaming ... [Published Engadget - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Rdio Inc, Janus Friis, Breaking Bad, Streaming Service, Life of Pi

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 04 2013 - 1 reports

Netflix Inc

Music streaming platform Rdio unveils Vdio for TV shows, movies

LOS ANGELES — Rdio, the music streaming service started by a co-founder of Skype, is getting into video. New and current subscribers of a $10-a-month unlimited music plan from Rdio (AR-dee-oh) will get $25 to spend in the new digital store for video, ... [Published Financial Post | Business » FP Tech Desk - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Rdio Inc, Netflix Inc, Drew Larner, Skype, Janus Friis

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 3 reports

Home Box Office Inc

Four years in the making, Vdio finally opens up to Rdio subscribers in the U.S. and U.K.

Vdio , the premium video service founded by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, emerged from private beta Tuesday night with an offering that looks more like Vudu or iTunes than Netflix. The service offers users streaming access to major Hollywood movies ... [Published GigaOM - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Rdio Inc, Janus Friis, Home Box Office Inc, Netflix Inc

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

Four years in the making, Vdio finally opens up to Rdio subscribers in the U.S. and U.K.

Entities: Rdio Inc, Janus Friis, Home Box Office Inc, Netflix Inc

First reported Jan 23 2013 - Updated Jan 23 2013 - 1 reports

Backed By Skype Co-founder Janus Friis, Futureful Launches On The iPad For Smarter Web Surfing

If you’re a fan of content discovery veteran, StumbleUpon , or haven’t quite been sold by its new look , then you just might have some love for a new startup out of Helsinki, Finland, called Futureful . A product of Finland’s largest, seed-stage ... [Published TechCrunch - Jan 23 2013]

Entities: Janus Friis, Skype, Surfing, StumbleUpon

First reported Jan 23 2013 - Updated Jan 23 2013 - 3 reports

Futureful’s smart content discovery app hits the iPad in the U.S.

Back in November we told you about Futureful , a Finnish startup that’s trying to create a semantically-driven content discovery tool — kind of like StumbleUpon but smarter. Well, as of now, iPad users in the U.S. can try it out for themselves . ... [Published GigaOM - Jan 23 2013]

Entities: Smart Content, iPad, StumbleUpon, Janus Friis

First reported Nov 26 2012 - Updated Nov 26 2012 - 2 reports

Skype Community - Mail Encoding Web Vulnerability#1

Title:======Skype Community - Mail Encoding Web Vulnerability #1Date:=====2012-11-20References:===========http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=708MICROSOFT SECURITY RESPONSE CENTER (MSRC) ID: [13021bc]VL-ID:=====708Common Vulnerability ... [Published gmane.comp.security.full-disclosure - Nov 26 2012]

Entities: Skype, Vulnerability, Janus Friis, CVSS Common Vulnerability Scoring System, IP Phone

First reported Nov 22 2012 - Updated Nov 22 2012 - 3 reports

Futureful plots smarter StumbleUpon for the iPad

This year’s Slush conference in Helsinki has been a terrific event, with a very high standard of startup and a disproportionate number of great ideas floating around. One of the most intriguing has been that of Futureful , a sort-of-browser app that’s ... [Published GigaOM - Nov 22 2012]

Entities: StumbleUpon, iPad, Silicon Valley, Janus Friis, Moore's Law

Quotes

...In 2001, there was Vonage. But most of those relied upon SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). Skype came up with its own technology, "because sip couldn't deliver what we wanted" said Friis in a 2003 interview

Skype is an internet success story [Published Special Broadcasting Service - Apr 30 2013]

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Skype co-founder Janus Friis is working on a st... [Published GigaOM - Apr 23 2013] Skype co-founder Janus Friis is getting ready to launch a new venture: Block Talent Partners, a recruiting agency that has been working with Friis on some of his other ventures, is currently looking for senior engineering talent for a stealthy new incubator. ...
Skype co-founder Janus Friis is working on a st... [Published GigaOM Network - Apr 23 2013] Skype co-founder Janus Friis is getting ready to launch a new venture: Block Talent Partners, a recruiting agency that has been working with Friis on some of his other ventures, is currently looking for senior engineering talent for a stealthy new incubator. ...
Skype co-founder Janus Friis is working on a st... [Published GigaOM Network - Apr 23 2013] Skype co-founder Janus Friis is getting ready to launch a new venture: Block Talent Partners, a recruiting agency that has been working with Friis on some of his other ventures, is currently looking for senior engineering talent for a stealthy new incubator. ...
Skype co-founder Janus Friis is working on a st... [Published GigaOM - Apr 23 2013] Skype co-founder Janus Friis is getting ready to launch a new venture: Block Talent Partners, a recruiting agency that has been working with Friis on some of his other ventures, is currently looking for senior engineering talent for a stealthy new incubator. ...
Music streaming platform Rdio unveils Vdio for ... [Published Financial Post \| Business » FP Tech Desk - Apr 03 2013] LOS ANGELES — Rdio, the music streaming service started by a co-founder of Skype, is getting into video. New and current subscribers of a $10-a-month unlimited music plan from Rdio (AR-dee-oh) will get $25 to spend in the new digital store for video, ...

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