zennstrom造句

• In October of the same year, they received $ 60 million from Niklas Zennstrom's Atomico investment firm and from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
• That, plus lower labor costs and proximity to Sweden, made it a logical place to seek designers for the company's software, Zennstrom said.
• As Zennstrom sees it, during the " bubble years " in Sweden, programmers lost some of the hungriness and hustle he could still find in the Baltics.
• Swedish software developer Niklas Zennstrom tapped three young Estonian programmers in 2000 to write what is now the Internet's most downloaded program, file-sharing Kazaa.
• Within a week of posting the program on its Web site on Aug . 29, Zennstrom said, more than 15, 000 copies of Skype were downloaded.
• But Skype Technologies SA founder Niklas Zennstrom _ who also co-created the song-swapping program Kazaa _ said the new PocketSkype service was a logical step.
• From 2007 until 2009, Volpi was CEO of Joost, an Internet startup focused on online TV which was founded by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.
• One of its developers, Niklas Zennstrom, thought the name, pronounced Ka-ZAH, " had a nice ring to it, like Yahoo ."
• Zennstrom said multiple users could eventually converse with each other, but he didn't say when that would happen or how Skype would be modified to do so.
• Zennstrom said similar versions likely could be developed for devices fueled by Palm or Symbian software, but he stopped short of saying that is in the works . _ _ _=
• When Swedish software developer Niklas Zennstrom cast about for help in writing the Kazaa file-sharing software, colleagues raised eyebrows when he chose three unheralded youths from little-known Estonia.
• "In many ways, like online banking, Estonia is now more advanced than Sweden, " said Zennstrom, who later sold Kazaa but still subcontracts programmers in Estonia.
• KaZaa B . V . and founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis created a program called FastTrack, which they licensed to MusicCity Networks of Tennessee and Grokster Inc . of the West Indies.
• But Niklas Zennstrom, FastTrack's chief executive officer, and MusicCity Networks CEO Michael Weiss say they are not trying to create the next Napster, and instead want to work legally with entertainment companies.
• Skype users can currently use the program only to talk to each other, but it could later be enhanced so someone could call other types of programs, or even regular landline and cell phones, Zennstrom said.
• Zennstrom, 37, and his main partner at Skype, Janus Friis, 27, first made a splash in 2001 when they released Kazaa, which went on to become the most downloaded software on the Internet.
• Zennstrom says the telecoms should view Skype as healthily " disruptive technology " and respond by reinventing their business-- as IBM has done since the rise of the personal computer-- instead of pouting their way into decline.
• At the end of Skype's first year in business, I spoke with its co-founder, Niklas Zennstrom-- via SkypeOut, on his cell phone in London-- about his ambitions for the second year.
• Meanwhile, Zennstrom and Friis have formed another company, Blastoise Ltd ., which owns 49 percent of Altnet, a new peer-to-peer distribution network that debuted this week as a part of the latest KaZaa Media Desktop program.