| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.09.2024 | Orb: Modern Billing Platform Company Raises $25 Million (Series B) | Orb, a modern billing platform company that reimagines how businesses monetize software, announced it raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Mayfield. Existing investors Menlo Ventures, Greylock Partners, South Park Commons, Basecase... |
| 31.03.2023 | California-based software development startup Orb raises USD 14 million in Series A funding | California — The contemporary pricing platform, Orb, debuted and said that it completed a USD 14 million Series A round of investment. After a USD 5.1 million seed round led by Greylock in 2021, the round was headed by Menlo Ventures, incre... |
| 29.03.2011 | Will Amazon Drive Music Lockers Like MP3Tunes And mSpot Beyond Oblivion? | Make no mistake about it: the digital music space will be turned upside down this year, courtesy of giants like Apple, Google, HP, Sony and now, Amazon.
Earlier today, the latter announced that it was entering the world of digital music loc... |
| 30.11.2010 | No more syncing: Didiom streams music to your iPhone from anywhere | With the iPhone app Didiom, syncing music files to your phone may become a thing of the past. That’s why we’re choosing Didiom as the first innovative app for VentureBeat’s Mobile App Spotlight.
Didiom lets you stream music to your iPhone o... |
| 19.11.2010 | Orb TV breaks onto the digital TV scene | How it works and why the CEO says it can't be shut down by TV networks
Bummed because you can’t actually watch anything on Google TV now that all of the major networks have pulled out? Answer: Orb TV. Or, at least, it’s an answer for now, u... |
| 09.07.2010 | Netgear tries to kill off local storage with its networked media servers (video) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Consumers are collecting a lot of media these day... |
| 09.07.2010 | Netgear tries to kill off local storage with its networked media servers (video) | Consumers are collecting a lot of media these days. And that’s fueling the need for media servers, which back your data up to a network storage device and let you access it from just about anywhere. Among the companies leading the charge fo... |
| 06.11.2009 | At Last! Streaming Media App Orb Launches Mac Version | We had almost forgotten about Orb, the media-sharing software that lets you stream video from your home computer to your iPhone or any other internet-connected device. In fact, the last time we had even looked at the application was Novembe... |
| 08.07.2009 | How to stream your Zune Pass music to your iPhone | Dru at Gearlive has unearthed a fascinating Escherian software solution that allows you to stream ZunePass music. Zune Pass, for those not in in the know, is Microsoft’s $15 a month streaming service that can blow music through your Zune an... |
| 16.02.2009 | Mobile CDN Offers First Official iPhone Streaming App | This past weekend, Mobile CDN made a fairly significant move in the mobile world when it streamed footage of the NBA All-Star game live over mobile phones. Why? Mobile CDN launched the first live streaming application approved by Apple and ... |
| 21.11.2008 | Orb for the iPhone: Stream your media everywhere | Orb, a $9.99 iPhone application that should be familiar to home networking buffs, is available now and will stream music from your home computer, photos, and live television from a TV tuner card – all over the Internet. It can even stream i... |
| 15.11.2008 | Weekly Wrapup: MySpace Profiles, IBM Blue Spruce, Windows Live, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we analyzed the significance of MySpace’s new profiles, looked at how Google is tracking flu trends, explored a partnership between an online ... |
| 22.05.2008 | BitTorrent teams with Orb to stream content anywhere | Orb Networks, who produce remote PC access/place shifting software naturally called Orb, have announced a partnership with BitTorrent which will bundle the filesharing client into the free Orb PC application.
Since Orb makes users' PCs acce... |
| 23.01.2008 | 38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox! | Ever since Napster brought free MP3s mainstream — and subsequently garnered the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America — the music industry has been reeling.
No single strategy for listening to music online has come to domin... |
| 12.12.2007 | Orb interface coming to iPhone, iPod Touch soon? | The original boxless Slingbox, Orb might just be unveiling an iPhone/iPod Touch version of its excellent-and-free interface in the next couple of days.
Orb has apparently found a way around Apple’s RTSP port cockblockery by streaming your g... |
| 18.10.2007 | Melodeo brings iTunes library to regular phones, raises $7.9M | Updated:
Seattle’s Melodeo, one of the many companies offering multimedia for your mobile phones, has just raised $7.9 million in a third round of financing.
The company’s newest product, nuTsie, lets you access your iTunes library from the... |
| 18.06.2007 | MyStrands, Last.fm competitor, raises $25 million | Updated
Less than a month after CBS’s $280 million acquisition of Last.fm, Spain’s 25 year-old media mogul, Antonio Asensio, has led a $25 million second-round investment in Corvallis, Oregon-based MyStrands, a music recommendation site tha... |
| 07.06.2007 | Maestro streams — straight into legal question | Maestro wants to enable you listen to your music collection wherever you go — no iPod required.
The two year old Atlanta-based company, which had earlier tried and failed to bring a hardware music player to market, has developed a portal th... |
| 18.01.2007 | Orb MyCasting: iTunes + Wii = Hotness | Orb MyCasting is a program that allows you to stream music and photos from your PC to your Wii. Using the Wii’s built-in Opera browser, Orb creates a mini-server inside your subnet and displays your content right on the Wii’s screen.
This i... |
| 10.01.2007 | Tech shakeout continued: Friendster, Backfence, Insider Pages, Orb updates | Despite fallout at social networking and other Web 2.0 companies lately, its clear that the problem isn’t lack of opportunity. Many companies still see strong growth ahead.
Check out social networking veteran Friendster.
The company lost $4... |
| 11.12.2006 | IT News: Online Shopping at All-Time High | News IT News: Online Shopping at All-Time High
Plus, what your mobile PC says about you, and new products from TransMedia, Orb Networks and more. By Gladys RamaDecember 11, 2006 'Tis the season for breaking online sales records, according t... |
| 11.12.2006 | IT News: Online Shopping at All-Time High | News IT News: Online Shopping at All-Time High
Plus, what your mobile PC says about you, and new products from TransMedia, Orb Networks and more. By Gladys RamaDecember 11, 2006 'Tis the season for breaking online sales records, according t... |
| 13.04.2006 | Orb Adds Support for TiVo Streaming | Orb Networks, maker of software that enables Windows XP users to stream digital media from their home PCs to anywhere with a network connection, announced DVR Everywhere on Thursday, a new product for viewing TiVo recordings on the go. As a... |
| 23.03.2006 | Orb Stress Tested at 36,000 Feet | Oliver at MobileCrunch has a great writeup on Orb, the free alternative to the $250 Slingbox from Sling Media. Orb allows you to stream live tv, video, audio and pictures from a base computer to any web connected device.
Oliver put Orb thro... |
| 20.01.2006 | Microsoft Media Center: Streaming media on the way? | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Over at Engadget there is some speculation that Microsoft is going to add streaming media playback into Media Center. Engadget ... |
| 20.12.2005 | V4S – Voicemail for Skype | I read about Orb’s V4S product on Scobelizer and Skype Journal. V4S is a good, free tool for sending voicemails to Skype and Outlook contacts.
V4S joins a whole bunch of products attacking the same or similar market (sending voicemails over... |
| 05.10.2005 | The Companies of Web 2.0, Part 2 | Here’s the second set of companies that presented at the Web 2.0 conference Launchpad workshop. See Part 1 here. Zvents
My friend Ethan Stock showed off Zvents, which launched last night. We’ve written about zvents here and here. In a nutsh... |
| 30.05.2005 | Stream media from your Mac to your mobile | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Adam Burt has a Mac-specific guide detailing how to stream media to your GPRS- or 3G-enabled phone. The guide includes photos, ... |
| 06.05.2005 | New Tivo Now Playing widget. | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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It's not very likely that I will ever make an entire post about one Dashboard widget. I find Dashboard, by itself, only somewha... |
| 07.02.2005 | Orb Networks a good start | Our colleague Mike Langberg today takes an even-handed look at Orb Networks, the Emeryville start-up that claims it can connect you to your music, video and other files wirelessly, via any device. Turns out Orb is a good start, but isn’t qu... |
