{"id":58,"date":"2006-02-06T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/skype-google-index-ventures-and-sequoia-capital-invest-in-start-up-wifi-firm-fon-en-fon-com\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T07:29:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:29:47","slug":"skype-google-index-ventures-and-sequoia-capital-invest-in-start-up-wifi-firm-fon-en-fon-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/skype-google-index-ventures-and-sequoia-capital-invest-in-start-up-wifi-firm-fon-en-fon-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype, Google, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital invest in start up wifi firm FON en.fon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spain based WiFi company has collected 18 million euros in investment from Skype, Google , Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Currently the company is based in madrid, the man behind this successful project is Martin Varsavasky,<\/p>\n<p>Martin Varsavsky &#8211; the founder of the Spanish portal ya.com and the Spanish telco Jazztel &#8211; describes it as &#8216;a global community of people who share WiFi connections&#8217;. In order to become a &#8216;Fonero&#8217;, as the company dubs it, you have to<br \/>install Fon&#8217;s software in your (compatible) router, place it near a window and then share bandwidth with other users around the world. Essentially, the aim of Fon is to create a free WiFi roaming environment for those who contribute WiFi signals via a local ISP.<\/p>\n<p>visit Fon website here: en.fon.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spain based WiFi company has collected 18 million euros in investment from Skype, Google , Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Currently the company is based in madrid, the man behind this successful project is Martin Varsavasky, Martin Varsavsky &#8211; the founder of the Spanish portal ya.com and the Spanish telco Jazztel &#8211; describes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engine","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}