Should the cable television companies and large networks be worried ? Skype, after all, did cause some consternation to the telephone-focused telecommunication industry, no ?
Om Malik reports that eBay has funded the initiative described below, and that the leaders of the initiative are really "engaged".
Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again. After disrupting the music and voice cartel’s operations, the duo is taking on television.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise. I had reported on that as part of the Business 2.0’s June 2006 cover story, The 50 Who Matter Now. In the little profile on the boys, we mentioned, “Their next move is rumored to be a company that will enable peer-to-peer television. If experience is any guide, broadcast and cable TV execs should be afraid. Very afraid.”
The whole Om Malik piece is here.
Tags: Skype, IPtv, digital television, eBay, accelerating change
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