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Currently available in 24 countries, Rdio is funded by Janus Friis through his investment entities, Atomico, and Skype.
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Founded in August 2010, the company has the financial support of Janus Friis, who is the co-founder of Skype.
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Launched in August 2010, Rdio is headquartered in San Francisco and was founded by Janus Friis, one of the creators of Skype.
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Svensmark then teamed up with Friis-Christensen to review solar activity, cloud cover and cosmic ray levels recorded using satellite data available since 1979.
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In 1996 he and Dr Friis-Christensen found a place for them.
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Zennstrom and Friis hope to charge high enough rates to make up for the limited number of ads, because spots will be targeted to users by geography, demographics and cultural tastes.
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That was when Danish physicist, Henrik Svensmark, decided to explore the matter after coming across a 1991 paper by fellow Danes Eigil Friis-Christensen and Knud Lassen that charted solar variations and global surface temperatures since 1860.
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The deal shows how far Skype has come since it was launched in 2003 by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, two men who had created a file-sharing technology called Kazaa that became widely associated with music piracy.
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According to the Financial Times report, Janus Friis and our man Niklas Zennstrom -- whom you may know from a little company called Skype -- are supposedly developing a peer-to-peer IPTV service with the intention of distributing video online the same way Skype and its P2P approach distributed VoIP calling online.
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