Keo.co.za (Free subscription) | yesterday
John Smit’s autobiography is leaving Joost van der Westhuizen’s tell-all tale in its wake in terms of sales. Smit’s Captain in the Cauldron, published by Highbury Safika Media, was released a fortnight ago, shortly before Van der Westhuizen’s Man in the Mirror – the book in which the former Springbok scrumhalf details, among other things, his [...]
Information Week (Free subscription) | yesterday
It announced that "certain assets" of Joost will be acquired, but Adconion did not disclose terms of the deal.
The Independent on Saturday (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Springbok captain John Smit's recently-launched book has been a "hit" at bookstores countrywide with many Durban branches having to order more stock.
Webtorque (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
I’ve written before about Joost, and while I didn’t predict their complete failure, I did predict one thing that some people seem to have missed: that their irrational faith in DRM would ultimately play a large part in their demise. That faith led them to go down the proprietary client download route, and not (as [...]
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Joost is the video streaming web startup created by the founders of Skype Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. A majority of Joost will be sold to Adconion.com. Adconion.com is an advertising and digital media company. Adconion will own the Joost trademarks, Joost.com, and the technology that Joost used for video. Joost will continue [...]
Today @ PC World (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Video streaming Website Joost will sell most of its assets to Adconion in a bid to stay alive
eCoustics.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Video streaming Website Joost will sell most of its assets to Adconion in a bid to stay alive
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
*Joost gets bought Chris Forrester 24-11-2009 Joost is more or less dead as a consumer product, now that Adconion Media Group has picked up the assets of the bankrupt internet...
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I hope the buyers read the fine print, given eBay’s experience with Skype… Joost , the struggling video Web site, said on Tuesday that it was selling most of the company to the Adconion Media Group , an online advertising and marketing company, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition ends a long sales process that at one point was thought to involve possible interest from the cable...
ITProPortal (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Adconion Media Group has proclaimed that it has snapped up certain significant assets of Joost, an online video service launched by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström that had apparently failed to carve its niche in the online video sharing space.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Joost will swhowcase branded entertainment, says Tyler Moebius of online ad network Adconion Joost isn't dead, it's just getting more advertising. Adconion 's main aim in acquiring the video firm is to offer its web player to brand marketing clients, CEO Tyler Moebius told paidContent.org. But Adconion's acquisition also includes the Joost.com trademark and rights for much of Joost's TV content…...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Joost as we knew it back in 2007, an ad-supported video streaming service, has been gone for some time now, with this summer seeing the company shift focus and deciding to only offer white-label video platforms. Today, Joost is closer still to becoming a page in history books as Adconion Media Group, the largest independent global audience and content network, has announced the acquisition of certain...
Tech News at TechWhack (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Adconion acquires Joost Joost is no longer operating as an independent service. The company has been acquired by Adconion. Adconion gains access to the technology that powered the Joost video... ...
CURRY.COM (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Kindle does on-the-fly upgrade. Climate science data still in the news. Nobody knows what to do. Moto is loved by the men according to a study. I’m dubious. Old G-Phone users can use Google Map navigation software. Joost is done. Chrome OS stories abound. HTC Droid Eris now free with a Verizon deal. Nokia [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Before web music service Spotify launched, serial entrepreneur Martin Varshavsky called it “Joost for music.” Indeed, Spotify would be well-advised to learn from Joost’s mistakes -- or it could wind up suffering a similar fate.
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