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Ran, skippered by Niklas Zennstrom and one of the pre-race favorites for line honors, had yet to finish.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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Startup FreedomPop, which is backed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, DCM and Mangrove Capital, provides cheaper Internet access and the ability for people to share access with others on its network.
FORBES: FreedomPop Preps Open Wi-Fi, Launches Free Home Internet Challenging ISPs
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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.
WSJ: Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Skype for Nearly $8 Billion
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Last December ten times as many came and on the stage were plenty of Europeans, including Marten Mickos of MySQL, a maker of databases now owned by Oracle, a software giant, Marc Simoncini, founder of meetic.com, Europe's largest dating site, and Niklas Zennstrom, who started Skype.
ECONOMIST: Europe's tech entrepreneurs
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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.
ENGADGET: Skype founders to launch P2P IPTV for millions of people?