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Joost Names Former Cisco Executive New CEO
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Internet television service Joost named former Cisco senior executive Mike Volpi as its new chief executive on Tuesday, choosing a telecom veteran to lead the company as it courts big media to show programming on its site.
Joost, launched late last year by the founders of Web telephone-calling service Skype and music file-sharing company KaZaA, aims to replicate cable television services on the Internet.
Volpi, who was also a Skype board member, replaces current Joost CEO Fredrik de Wahl, who will remain as chief strategy officer.
A 13-year veteran of network communications equipment maker Cisco Systems [CSCO
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Over the past few months, Joost has sought to position itself as a safe way for big media to distribute their copyrighted videos, music and other programming online, dodging the widespread piracy issues that rival YouTube has endured.
Shortly before suing YouTube and its parent Google [GOOG
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Since then, many others have joined Joost, including Time Warner's [TWX
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YouTube, which focuses on short-form, user-generated video clips, and Joost, which delivers full-length programs, have maintained that they do not compete, despite jockeying for the spotlight in the burgeoning online video business.
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