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Niklas Zennström (Swedish: [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈsɛ̂nːstrœm] ⓘ; born 16 February 1966 [1]) is a Swedish entrepreneur and technology investor. [2] He is co-founder of the charity organization Zennström Philanthropies.
After this, the partners decided to leave Tele2. Friis moved into Zennström's small apartment in Amsterdam in January 2000 where they started developing KaZaA, [8] 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 ...
Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark. [ 17 ] The software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, and Toivo Annus. [ 18 ] Friis and Annus are credited with the idea of reducing the cost of voice calls by using a P2P protocol like that of Kazaa. [ 19 ]
Skype Technologies (also known as Skype Software , Skype Communications , Skype Inc., and Skype Limited) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, whose chief business is the manufacturing and marketing of the video chat and instant messaging computer software program Skype, and various Internet telephony services associated with it. [1]
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Rdio was launched by Skype Technologies founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis on August 3, 2010. At the time they had to compete with services such as Deezer, MOG, Napster, Rhapsody, and Spotify. On September 27, 2013, Rdio added a music recommendations feature that delivered personalized albums, stations, and playlists. [9]
The Tele2 project, "Everyday.com", was a commercial flop. Subsequently, while working as a stay-at-home father, Tallinn developed FastTrack and Kazaa for Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (formerly of Tele2). Kazaa's P2P technology was later repurposed to drive Skype around 2003.
Website. www.joost.com. Joost (/ ˈdʒuːst /) was an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). During 2007–2008 Joost used peer-to-peer TV (P2PTV) technology to distribute content to their Mozilla -based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead.