While their other child Joost is taking a deep endless dive, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (Kazaa, Skype, Joost and JoltId) have set up and funded a new music startup, Rdio, the NYTimes reports. Although the website for the company has only a logo for the moment and a signup form (they actually also hold www.rd.io next to the dotcom so Techcrunch found out), the NYTimes reported that Rdio (with offices in both Los Angeles and San Francisco) will offer a paid subscription-based music consumption and purchasing platform for both PCs and mobile phones… and not a (p2p) radio unlike what its name suggests. Rdio would leave the incubation closet early next year.
Rdio is in the process of securing the extensive catalogue of major players from the recording industry. So what you’ll think, so many other services have done that. Well, things are a bit different when it comes to Friis and Zennström. The duo was behind the creation of that notorious, buggy and malware infested, illegal p2p echange service Kazaa and some label bosses still get cold sweat attacks when their names get mentioned.
On a sidenote, did anyone notice that every company that these two have started ended up being a big miss when it came to monetising the whole AFTER the initial sale? I wouldn’t count too much on it that it won’t be different this time.
While their other child Joost is taking a deep endless dive, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (Kazaa, Skype, Joost and JoltId) have set up and funded a new music startup, Rdio, the NYTimes reports. Although the website for the company has only a logo for the moment and a signup form (they actually also hold www.rd.io next to the dotcom so Techcrunch found out), the NYTimes reported that Rdio (with offices in both Los Angeles and San Francisco) will offer a paid subscription-based music consumption and purchasing platform for both PCs and mobile phones… and not a (p2p) radio unlike what its name suggests. Rdio would leave the incubation closet early next year.
Rdio is in the process of securing the extensive catalogue of major players from the recording industry. So what you’ll think, so many other services have done that. Well, things are a bit different when it comes to Friis and Zennström. The duo was behind the creation of that notorious, buggy and malware infested, illegal p2p echange service Kazaa and some label bosses still get cold sweat attacks when their names get mentioned.
On a sidenote, did anyone notice that every company that these two have started ended up being a big miss when it came to monetising the whole AFTER the initial sale? I wouldn’t count too much on it that it won’t be different this time.
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