INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Two video startups are making dueling legal claims against the other.The Wall Street Journal broke the news yesterday that interactive video
company Eko is accusing Quibi of infringing on its patented technology.At around the same time, The Hollywood Reporter noted that Quibi
(which is launching its short-form mobile video service next month) has filed a complaint in California federal court claiming that Eko has
seamlessly switch between landscape and portrait-mode viewing.Both companies seem to agree that Eko CEO Yoni Bloch met with Jeffrey
Katzenberg in March 2017 (before Katzenberg had even founded Quibi) about a possible investment in Eko, and that there was at least one
Then, after Katzenberg and Quibi CEO Meg Whitman showed off Turnstyle at CES this year, Eko sent a letter to Quibi claiming that the feature
infringed on its intellectual property
is telling that Quibi filed the motion only after learning the Wall Street Journal was going to publish an article exposing allegations of
