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Niklas Zennstrom


Recent Articles about Niklas Zennstrom

Honorable Mention: The $2.6 Billion Men

By Michael Fitzgerald |  Dec 1, 2005

In 2002, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis launched Skype, a free Internet phone service. In September, they sold it--for a sum that still has Wall Street and...  Read more

EBay's Skype Write Down

By Max Chafkin |  Oct 4, 2007

There's been much made over the past few days over eBay's admission that it overpaid, to the tune of $1.43 billion, for the internet calling startup Read more

Skype Founders Mull Buy-Back and Digg on the Defensive

By Max Chafkin |  Apr 13, 2009

Skype founders may buy back the company . The New York Times reported Saturday that Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have been trying to raise $1 bi...  Read more

The Thinking Man's Outsourcing

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 1, 2006

A surprising number of U.S. companies are sending their most complex activities overseas.  Read more

Biz Lessons from the Poker Table; Google's New Idea

By Kasey Wehrum |  Nov 5, 2009

Yanks win, but few spoils for Bronx businesses . Congratulations to the New York Yankees, for winning (yet another) World Series championship. But w...  Read more

CEOs Favorite Tax Write-offs and Underlings Seek Revenge

By Nitasha Tiku |  Apr 15, 2009

Facebook and Twitter rot your brain? From the annals of everything fun is bad for you, a new study conducted by a neuroscience group from the Unive...  Read more

Twitter's Big Pay Day

By Max Chafkin |  Sep 17, 2009

Twitter worth $1 billion . Yup, you read right. The little company that can't seem to nail down how exactly it's going to make money and that employ...  Read more

Battle of the Browsers; Stick a Fork in Joost

By Nitasha Tiku |  Jul 1, 2009

Battle of the web browsers After its debut in 2004, non-profit run, open-source Web browser Firefox captured almost a quarter of the market with it...  Read more

SEO Secrets Revealed; Teens Cast a Vote for Steve Jobs

By Kasey Wehrum |  Oct 14, 2009

The secret to great SEO . There is none, says Derek Powazek. "The good advice is obvious," he writes . "T...  Read more

The Third Apple Founder

By Nitasha Tiku |  Jun 3, 2010

Wozniak, Jobs, . . . and Wayne? The Mercury News heads to the Nevada desert and catches up with Ron Wayne, "Read more