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Skype founders sue eBayTHE founders of Skype have sued owner eBay and an investor group that has agreed to buy the internet phone service.
Australian IT Thursday, September 17, 2009Taiwan Mobile buys CATV assets from Carlyle Group(Telecompaper) Taiwan
mobile will buy CATV related assets in Taiwan from US private equity fund Carlyle Group for a total consideration of TWD 32.8 billion. The acquisition will make Taiwan Mobile the number one TV player in Taiwan with a market share of 32 percent. The mobile
operator will buy the assets for TWD 440 million in cash and 589 million shares in Taiwan
mobile, representing 15.5 percent. The deal still needs regulatory approval.
DMeurope.com Thursday, September 17, 2009Oracle software sales miss targetOracle'S quarterly
software sales came in sharply below expectations, dashing hopes that corporate technology spending is rebounding and sending its shares down 2.7 per cent.
Australian IT Thursday, September 17, 2009Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair shareMusic publishers and songwriters want Apple and other Web retailers to pay
performance fees for music samples and video downloads. What's right here?
CNET Thursday, September 17, 2009IBM data center gets deep energy retrofitIBM's "green innovation" data center uses cutting-edge technologies, such as temperature sensors, and building designs aimed at cutting energy consumption.
CNET Thursday, September 17, 2009SIBOS NEWS: Oracle Releases New Version of FLEXCUBENew FLEXCUBE is designed to emphasize change
management and integration to help banks enhance the
customer experience and
Reduce costs.
Financetech.com Thursday, September 17, 2009SIBOS NEWS: DTCC, SWIFT, XBRL US Form Stakeholder GroupThe new U.S. Issuer to Investor Stakeholder Group will represent the needs of corporate actions reporting and processing supply chain.
Financetech.com Thursday, September 17, 2009Skype founders start copyright suit against eBay(Telecompaper) A
company owned by the founders of Skype called Joltid has filed a copyright suit against eBay and a group of investors that plan to buy Skype from eBay for USD 2 billion deal. Joltid, which is owned by Skype's founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, has filed an injunction against Skype and is seeking damages for copyright infringements in a US District Court, the Wall Street Journal reported. Joltid claims that it owns the rights for the use of a peer-to-peer technology called 'global index' utilised in Skype, which is the subject of an intellectual property dispute with Skype since March. The technology is used at the core of Skype's
software. Joltid terminated Skype's licence for the
software in March, and the two companies have since been involved in a suit about that termination in a UK court. Besides damages for copyright infringements, Joltid also seeks profits that Skype has made while using the technology in breach of its licence. Joltic claims that eBay's a
DMeurope.com Thursday, September 17, 2009VimpelCom buys 78% Millicom stake, enters Laos mobile market(Telecompaper) Russian
mobile operator Vimpelcom has acquired a 78 percent stake in Millicom's mobile operator in Laos. The remaining 22 percent of Millicom Lao is owned by the government of the Laos government. The acquisition price is estimated to reach USD 66 million, based on the enterprise value of Millicom Lao of USD 102 million. The acquisition is scheduled for completion by end-2009. With a population of 6.5 million inhabitants, mobile penetration in Laos currently stands at 23 percent. According to Boris Nemsic, VimpelCom CEO, the
operator's entry into Laos is the next logical step in the
company's international expansion strategy. Laos
provides a complement to VimpelCom's existing operations in Vietnam and Cambodia and fits into the company's strategy of building a solid Southeast Asian cluster, Nemsic said. The VimpelCom Group currently operates in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia, as well as Vietnam and Cambodia.
DMeurope.com Thursday, September 17, 2009Skype founders sue eBay over copyright disputeJoltid, a
company founded by Skype's developers, alleges its P2P
software is being infringed upon every time someone downloads and uses the popular VoIP service
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