newsletter archive (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Cisco computer game lets you play CEO; Cisco blows away Q1 expectations Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend > > > Sponsored by 3COM Comprehensive NAC Read this whitepaper on improving endpoint defense, control and visibility through integrated management and enforcement. Learn more Spotlight Story Mike Volpi bragged he could get Cisco's...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Yesterday, the already very public fight for Skype entered yet another round, with the publication of recent filings of a motion for preliminary injunction against former Joost CEO and Chairman Mike Volpi and Index Ventures - where the man currently works as a partner - asking that he refrain from using knowledge or confidential information he obtained while at Joost in current dealings...
Fierce VoIP (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
... was held by the Friis-Zennstrom entity, Joltid. The founders also filed an injunction against Mike Volpi and Index Ventures who were part of the consortium to block them from participating while derailing the purchase. Volpi allegedly had made-off with a computer containing Joltid source code. It seems like these legal maneuvers paid off for the founders after all. In the end,...
newsletter archive (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... Scott Bradner in light of a friend's medical product research. Father of SIP bolts Cisco for Skype Mike Volpi kept his word to his Skype investment group, he got the Father of SIP - Jonathan Rosenberg, to jump ship. What caused "The Great Twitter Spike of Oct. 27, 2009"? The Web site performance monitoring company Pingdom tracked Twitter traffic for three weeks and in addition...
newsletter archive (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... right to return, refund, adjust, or exchange any previously... Father of SIP bolts Cisco for Skype Mike Volpi kept his word to his Skype investment group, he got the Father of SIP - Jonathan Rosenberg, to jump ship. Skype announced Roseberg jumped ship from Cisco the day after our blog story published emails indicating Rosenberg had an interest in discussing Skype with Volpi....
newsletter archive (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... cases, remind you how truly terrible our tastes once were. Father of SIP bolts Cisco for Skype Mike Volpi kept his word to his Skype investment group - he got the Father of SIP, Jonathan Rosenberg, to jump ship. Cisco lets Tandberg think about it a little more Cisco thinks Tandberg needs more time, not money, to close the deal. Tandberg got another 9 days to think about it when Cisco...
newsletter archive (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... manage the exchange's data centers in New Jersey and London. Father of SIP bolts Cisco for Skype Mike Volpi kept his word to his Skype investment group - he got the Father of SIP, Jonathan Rosenberg, to jump ship. Cisco lets Tandberg think about it a little more Cisco thinks Tandberg needs more time, not money, to close the deal. Tandberg got another 9 days to think about it when...
Mobile Tech Today (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... also witnesses the departure of one of the original investors, Index Ventures and its partner Mike Volpi, credited with spearheading the acquisition, initially for a 65 percent stake in Skype. "Although Skype has the potential to be a great investment, the deal terms changed for Index such that it no longer matches our investment criteria and thus we have decided not to participate...
Fierce VoIP (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... by another Friis-Zennstrom entity called Joltid. The founders recently filed an injunction against Mike Volpi and Index Ventures who were part of the consortium to block them from participating while derailing the purchase. Volpi allegedly had made-off with a computer containing Joltid source code. It seems like these legal maneuvers paid off for the founders after all. For...
BloggingBuyouts (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... 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 double-crossed them. The legal circus held up eBay's proposed $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...
Fierce VoIP (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... by another Friis-Zennstrom entity called Joltid. The founders recently filed an injunction against Mike Volpi and Index Ventures in an attempt to derail the purchase. As part of the deal Zennstrom and Friis will probably get board representation at Skype while the investors they've had issues with will not be allowed to participate in the purchase of the 65 percent share in Skype....
Alec Saunders (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Yesterday the end came to the Skype / JoltID lawsuit. Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström have taken a 14% stake in the company, Index Ventures and Mike Volpi got the boot, and Skype users all across the world breathed a sigh of relief. One thing that was never in doubt was Skype would [...]
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Image via Wikipedia My investors at Fon include most of the people and companies that were involved in the recent sale of Skype. At Fon we have eBay, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom personally as investors and board members, Mike Volpi personally as an investor and board member, Danny Rimer as a board member and [...]
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Silicon Valley golden boy Mike Volpi caught in eBay Skype legal battle Mercury News Not that long ago, Michelangelo “Mike” Volpi, 42, was one of the most important people in Silicon Valley. At Cisco Systems, he was the golden boy who was instrumental in the company’s acquisition strategy and rumored to be in line to eventually [...]
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Skype, is being jettisoned from the investor syndicate. Very bad blood had developed between Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, and the Skype founders after it emerged that he’d try to go behind their back to arrange the deal without including them. Marc Andreessen, partner of Andreessen Horowitz, confirmed the deal with VentureBeat this morning: “Everything is settled,”...
