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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Marc Andreessen popped up on CNBC this afternoon. Some key points: Skype will soon be a multi-billion dollar company and it's growing like a freaking rocketship Twitter won't kill Facebook Facebook won't kill Twitter Ning CEO Gina Bianchini is indeed one of the sexiest CEOs alive * * Okay, okay, Marc didn't say that on CNBC. But we doubt he'd disagree. It's Friday afternoon, by...
Tech Startups 3.0 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Netscape founder Marc Andreessen heads a group that takes a majority interest in Internet phone service provider Skype. $2 billion dollar deal. HP, eBay, - Skype added 40 million new registered users in the last three months. - Skype did $185 million in revenue last quarter. - Right now, it charges to connect calls into and out of the phone system. - The global market for international...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Earlier this morning, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis settled their lawsuits with eBay and a syndicate of investors in return for a 14 percent stake in the company they founded. The lawsuits were complicating the spin-off of Skype from eBay because the Skype founders still controlled the service's underlying peer-to-peer technology. In an interview with me this morning, Marc Andreessen,...
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | yesterday
... jumped the shark very quickly and now it is applied very broadly. I prefer to use the term that Marc Andreessen uses "business computing." Marc Andreessen, one of SIlicon Valley's top VCs and Internet pioneers, is one of the investors in SnapLogic, which last month raised $2.3m for its Series A. Flying upside down . . . Mr Dhillon has never been one to follow...
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | yesterday
... University of Illinois complex at Urbana, Ill., by a team led by future brand-name entrepreneuers Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark , who had both also worked at high-performance computer firm Silicon Graphics. Windows and Macintosh ports are released in Dec. 19993. April 4, 1994: Clark, with the backing of Andreessen and venture capital, founds Mosaic Communications Corp., which...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Blekko, a stealthy San Francisco company that is sounding more and more like a search engine, has tacked $2.5 million onto its third round of funding, which now totals $14 million, according to Dow Jones VentureWire. The recent extension came from US Venture Partners and CMEA Capital, but it was previously backed by SoftTech Venture Capital, Western Technology Investment, Netscape founder Marc...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Blekko , a stealthy San Francisco company that is sounding more and more like a search engine, has tacked $2.5 million onto its third round of funding, which now totals $14 million, according to Dow Jones VentureWire. The recent extension came from US Venture Partners and CMEA Capital , but it was previously backed by SoftTech Venture Capital , Western Technology Investment , Netscape founder Marc...
Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Followup to Ning’s Viral Loop article I was recently sent a copy of Viral Loop by Adam Penenberg, which just came out. I was first introduced to Adam in early 2008, when Marc Andreessen wrote us both while Adam was starting to write an article about Ning and their viral loops. That article was ultimately published [...]
BoomTown (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Silicon Valley legend and now VC Marc Andreessen was making the interview rounds after the settlement between the litigation-addled co-founders of Skype and all the various people they were suing was announced this morning. In an interview with BoomTown, when asked about the aggressive legal tactics of Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis that resulted in them finally seizing a stake...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype , clearing the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners , Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Index Ventures , a historical investor in Skype, is not going to be part of that buying party after all,...
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As you may remember, two months ago eBay was planning to spin Skype into an independent company. The buyers who would take control of Skype from eBay included Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Index Ventures, and Silver Lake. However the founders of Skype interrupted the sale by claiming [...]
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
EBay has settled with the founders of Skype, clearing up some nasty lawsuits that now allows the Internet phone company to be sold to a consortium of investors that includes the Skype co-founders. Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners leads the investor group, and is joined by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. As part of the deal, Index...
BloggingBuyouts (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... $2 billion sale of Skype to a consortium of private investors led by Silver Lake Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, the investment firm of Marc Andreessen, the billionaire co-founder of Netscape. The pact ends an at-times vicious soap opera replete with accusations of back-stabbing, dishonesty, and outright theft against Mike Volpi, the pair's one-time Golden Boy, who they believe...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
EBay has settled with the founders of Skype, clearing up some nasty lawsuits that now allows the Internet phone company to be sold to a consortium of investors that includes the Skype co-founders. Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners leads the investor group, and is joined by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. As part of the deal, Index...
OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Let the games begin! At last night's Ning Appathon kickoff event at the Ning offices in Palo Alto, Ning started a week-long worldwide app development competition for the recently launched Ning Apps platform. WHAT: The Ning Appathon is a week-long OpenSocial development competition with prizes for both original and ported applications. Judges include Ning Chairman and Co-founder Marc Andreessen...
