Skype Founders Eye Web TV
Kazaa and Skype team shift their attention to online video startup.
Skype and Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström are already working on their next venture, a startup that will showcase online videos featuring content from TV producers.
Mr. Friis told the Danish newspaper Børsen on Wednesday that they plan to offer TV programming to consumers with broadband Internet access, according to Reuters.
The project, code-named Venice, aims to offer more professional-quality content than YouTube’s panoply of user-generated video fare, but it still aims to be fairly open.
“This is a system where people with professional content can put it out,” said Mr. Friis. “And that can be anybody.”
The partners were successful with their last venture, Luxembourg-based VoIP provider Skype, which was sold to eBay for $2.6 billion While Kazaa has tangled with the record industry over its sharing of music files, the executives hope to keep their next venture lawsuit-free.
Source link: redherring.com...
Skype and Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström are already working on their next venture, a startup that will showcase online videos featuring content from TV producers.
Mr. Friis told the Danish newspaper Børsen on Wednesday that they plan to offer TV programming to consumers with broadband Internet access, according to Reuters.
The project, code-named Venice, aims to offer more professional-quality content than YouTube’s panoply of user-generated video fare, but it still aims to be fairly open.
“This is a system where people with professional content can put it out,” said Mr. Friis. “And that can be anybody.”
The partners were successful with their last venture, Luxembourg-based VoIP provider Skype, which was sold to eBay for $2.6 billion While Kazaa has tangled with the record industry over its sharing of music files, the executives hope to keep their next venture lawsuit-free.
Source link: redherring.com...
mljevar - 23. Oct, 00:01