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A cleaner Internet – or a censored Internet?
A news report says Kevin Bermeister, of Kazaa fame, thinks major network equipment providers could easily use a “global file registry filter” to “reduce piracy” – but surely censorship could easily rear its even uglier head?
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FreedomPop Explains How It Will Offer Free National Broadband Starting This Summer
Many startups are secretive but few are as mysterious as FreedomPop. In December, after announcing itself, its ambitious plan to offer free broadband to all Americans and its ties to Skype and Kazaa co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, the Los Angeles-based company essentially disappeared. FreedomPop's only web presence, a site so hastily thrown together it seems like a joke, yields no information about ...
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LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman Joins Skype Co-Founder Niklas Zennström on Wrapp Board as Greylock Adds $5 Million to ...
Wrapp, the new social gifting service, today announced that Greylock Partners is adding $5 million to the company’s Series A funding and co-leading the round with Atomico, the inte
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Review: RDIO.com
RDIO is a “new” streaming service for Australians. Starting in 2010, it conducted a soft launch in Australia early in 2010, and officially opened it’s service to Australia on 20th January. rdio launches in Australia It is founded by Nikias Zenstrom and Janus Friss, founders of infamous music piracy software Kazaa (as well as VOIP software Skype), but RDIO is working within the music industry ...
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FreedomPop Replacing LightSquared With Other Carrier As 'Free Broadband' Launch Partner
Since FreedomPop's mission of providing free or very low-cost mobile broadband to all Americans went public last December, the Los Angeles-based startup has met with considerable skepticism. Now FreedomPop is remedying one of its biggest weaknesses -- its partnership with the beleaguered broadband carrier LightSquared -- in order to roll out service by this summer.
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Social, Mobile Gifting Service Wrapp Raises $5M From Greylock And Atomico To Launch In The US And UK
Wrapp , a social gifting service, has raised $5 million series A funding from Greylock Partners and Atomico, the VC firm formed by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype, Kazaa and other companies. The startup had previously raised $5.5 million in funding from Atomico and Creandum. As part of the most recent round, Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman will be joining Zennström ...
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Reid Hoffman Just Invested In This Insanely Fast Growing Swedish Startup
Wrapp just launched in November and has been growing by 30% per week. Yes, per week.
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Megaupload Takedown Didn’t Impact Piracy At All
Clearly, the lessons that Napster offered about piracy all those years ago have yet to sink in with the authorities that are trying to “clean up” the Internet. According to a study conducted by DeepField Networks, as pointed out by …
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Chris Barton: Shutting down the internet, what's at stake?
Megaupload down. Another casualty in the war that never ends. Knock one over, another pops up. It's been like this since the beginning when Napster made file sharing a bre
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Warning out vs 'Frankenstein' malware
As if the present batch of malware were not bad enough, computer users may have to watch out against a new breed of malware: those of the Frankenstein variety. Bitdefender’s MalwareCity.com said it has so far identified 40,000 such malware symbioses out of a sample pool of 10 million files. “Now, another ‘practice’ has silently emerged: the file infector that accidentally parasites another e ...
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