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| May 17, 2016 | StubHub takes on Ticketmaster and becomes the first jersey sponsor in NBA history | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Last month, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that jersey sponsorships would be permitted as part of a three-year pil... |
| May 17, 2016 | StubHub takes on Ticketmaster and becomes the first jersey sponsor in NBA history | Last month, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that jersey sponsorships would be permitted as part of a three-year pilot program, starting with the 2017-18 season. As of this week, we now know the name of the first brand to... |
| Feb 8, 2016 | StubHub takes on Ticketmaster with new platform for both primary and secondary tickets | StubHub has announced big plans to infiltrate the primary ticketing market, as the eBay-owned company takes on the might of Ticketmaster in the lucrative live events realm.
StubHub revealed that it’s launching a new all-in-one ticketing pla... |
| Dec 5, 2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 12/5/15 | Perion Networks acquired Undertone; Welltok bought Silverlink; iMapData merged with PlanetRisk
Perk.com, which provides a rewards platform targeting consumers by giving them rewards for their daily mobile and internet activities, agreed to ... |
| Mar 30, 2015 | StubHub files lawsuit against Ticketmaster and the Golden State Warriors over monopolistic practices | StubHub, the eBay-owned secondary ticket marketplace for live events, has announced that it’s filing a lawsuit against fellow ticketing company Ticketmaster and NBA basketball team the Golden State Warriors.
The suit seeks to stop “unfair a... |
| Mar 30, 2015 | StubHub files lawsuit against Ticketmaster and the Golden State Warriors over monopolistic practices | 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!
StubHub, the eBay-owned secondary ticket marketpl... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | The LA startup scene: how is it shaping up? | Ahead of Splash LA on May 30, here's a quick look at Silicon Valley vs LA's startup scene
Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. The two areas share a state, and a common trait of creativity. In other ways, however, they couldn't be more different... |
| Feb 2, 2013 | Gigya passes 1.5 billion users every month | Social infrastructure provider has over 650 clients, including Wal-Mart, PacSun, and Adidas
Even the largest companies in the world need social media to reach a mass audience these days. That much is obvious. How they actually do it, though... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | 500 Startups-Backed Markerly Makes Content Sharing Easier For Readers And More Transparent For Publishers | Markerly, a company being incubated at 500 Startups, aims to help web publishers increase their traffic from social media and understand why certain pieces of content are taking off.
“Markerly makes light of the dark web,” CEO Sarah Ware to... |
| Sep 18, 2012 | Patent Complaint Filed Against Rackspace For Hosting GitHub | PersonalWeb and Level 3 Communications have filed patent complaint against Rackspace for hosting GitHub. Update: PersonalWeb has a history of suing large tech companies, including Google, Facebook and Apple.
Update: Here’s Rackspace’s respo... |
| Feb 7, 2012 | First Round to Philly? ChoozOn raised $1.5 million [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | Facebook Acquires The Tech Behind WhoGlue, A Company That Sued It In 2009 | Facebook has confirmed to us this morning that it did indeed acquire the Baltmore-based software firm WhoGlue earlier this month. WhoGlue builds social networking software for membership organizations (like college alumni networks, for exam... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | Spotify adds new 'In Private' listening option | Secret Britney Spears fans take note: Your guilty pleasure listening is protected for now...
Of the recent design updates to Facebook, one in particular has hit a chord with users of popular online music streaming site, Spotify. Facebook's ... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | New Zealand ISP Boss Denounces Bad Copyright Law | While US ISPs apparently decided to capitulate to Hollywood (while the US government held a gun to their heads), at least some ISPs are speaking up about the ridiculousness of making ISPs copyright cops. The head of New Zealand’s TelstraCle... |
| May 17, 2011 | Almost Half Of All Online Orders Now Include Free Shipping | Online retail spending reached $38 billion this quarter, up 12 percent from a $33.8 billion a year ago according to Comscore. This growth is due to an increase in the number of buyers (7%), transactions per buy (9%) and tempered by a declin... |
| Mar 8, 2011 | Gigya raises $6 million for social SaaS | Integrate your website with social features from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more with Gigya
Gigya, a SaaS company that makes websites more social, has raised $6 million in its fourth round of funding, we've confirmed with the company. ... |
| Feb 3, 2011 | Some Of Go2 Media's Assets Acquired By Poynt For $450,000 | Mobile search company Poynt has acquired the local advertising publishing platform assets of Go2 Media.
The latter raised $3 million back in July 2009, and lists General Catalyst, Borealis Venture Partners, Lighthouse Capital Partners and H... |
| Jan 22, 2011 | Six Years in Prison For Sharing 18 Songs | Just a few days ago Russia’s Communications Minister announced that big web companies including Google and Russia’s Facebook equivalent Vkontakte are not responsible for the ‘infringements’ of their users.
However, this doesn’t mean that co... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | Upload 18 Songs In Russia… Face Six Years In Prison | To hear the US entertainment industry talk, Russia is a horrible “haven for pirates.” The US has been putting diplomatic pressure on Russia for yeas to improve its copyright laws and enforcement, with Russia regularly receiving a place on t... |
| Dec 14, 2010 | Edison Ventures | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | Publishers Clearing House buys Funtank | An undisclosed amount gets PCH Candystand.com, and may triple network traffic with branded games
What comes to mind when you hear the words Publishers Clearing House? Most likely, the million-dollar check was the first thing to pop into you... |
| Oct 1, 2010 | Amazon in talks to buy Spanish private sales company BuyVip for €70-€80 million | Ecommerce giant Amazon.com has long been rumored to make a $2 billion play for online private sales club sensation Vente-Privée, but so far a deal hasn’t happened. Now rumors are swirling that Amazon is in late-stage negotiations to acquire... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | Napster launches on Apple's iPhone | How will the paid service compare to Pandora's free one?
Napster was released Monday for Apple iOS devices, expanding the music service from PC and Mac, to a whole new slew of gadgets from the iPhone, iPod to the iPad. The download, which i... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | 10 million users have tuned in to Spotify so far, but only 1 out of 20 pays for it | Spotify is going to announce that it’s hit the 10 million users milestone later this month, according to a “special party” invitation sent to press and partners (image and source: Music Ally). That’s about the same amount of users as there ... |
| Jul 28, 2010 | Startup Roundup: Local angle to Twitter’s Fail Whale; NuPathe sets IPO terms | Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve... |
| Jul 27, 2010 | VC Roundup: DreamIt in Forbes Magazine | Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to p... |
| Jun 23, 2010 | Apple iOS4 Multitasking Opens the Door to iTunes' Biggest Competitor -â€" Mobile Radio | The generally-praised Apple (APPL) iOS4 is influencing video chat, interactive games and book reading, but its biggest update, iPhone/iPad multitasking, will influence literally dozens of applications. The Internet radio website Pandora is ... |
| Mar 9, 2010 | Revised video game financing list: 115 game companies raised $663.1M in 2009 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
[Update: We’ve added our list with new fundings we’ve heard about from readers and Engage Digital Media].
Game startups continued to sc... |
| Mar 9, 2010 | Revised video game financing list: 115 game companies raised $663.1M in 2009 | [Update: We’ve added our list with new fundings we’ve heard about from readers and Engage Digital Media].
Game startups continued to score big investments in 2009, but the amount of money raised in the year fell considerably compared to 200... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | eMusic Reels In Another Major Label With Warner Music Deal | Digital music company eMusic is rumored to be up for sale, according to various reports, but that hasn’t stopped it from signing licensing deals with big music. This morning, eMusic announced that it come to an agreement with Warner Music G... |
| Jun 24, 2009 | Twitter Users Buy More Music Online Than Average Surfers, Study Says | Market research firm The NDP Group has issued a report that says Web users who are active on social networking site Twitter are more engaged with music and, more importantly, tend to be more likely to purchase music online.
The firm bases t... |
| May 8, 2009 | Friday Tech Links: City election day results online, Skorpion Show redo and More | In which we link out to the tech news from Philly and elsewhere (when it matters) that slips through the cracks and make it way fun. See others here.
OK, first the Daily News reports this morning that the city would not continue its freshly... |
| Apr 22, 2009 | Roundup: Spreadtweet, Windows Live, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Tungle launches web service for scheduling meetings — More on Web Worker Daily.
App lets Tweeters fake a work ethic — What’s better than scheduling meetings online? Tricking your boss into thinking you’re working o... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | 33Across nabs $750K to identify influential online users | Stealthy 33Across, a startup that uses an algorithm to identify which online users are the most influential of others’ behavior, announced that it has raised $750,000 of an expected $1.5 million in second-round funding, according to peHUB. ... |
| Jan 27, 2009 | Not A Music Industry Crisis — It's A CD Crisis | I got to spend some time with the organizers of Midem when I went there last week, and beyond doing an incredible job putting together a great event they actually have a really comprehensive view of what’s happening to the market. Unlike so... |
| Jan 19, 2009 | PC Sales Shrink, but Netbooks on the Rise | News PC Sales Shrink, but Netbooks on the Rise By Herb TorrensJanuary 19, 2009 Gartner's fourth-quarter 2008 report on the PC market, announced last week, reported shrinking global and U.S. sales for the top computer makers. And it wasn't j... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Visual search engine Superfish nets $5.3M | Superfish, a stealthy startup that will eventually let users search by sight, reeled in $5.3 million in second-round financing. The Palo Alto, Calif. company has been in research mode for a couple of years and plans to launch the service in... |
| Dec 18, 2008 | Roundup: Yahoo cuts data retention, Sprint pushing WiMax and more | Here’s the latest action:
Yahoo cuts data retention to 90 days — The search company’s new policy will likely push Google and Microsoft toward similar reductions in the amount of time they keep user data.
Sprint plans first WiMax device for ... |
| Dec 7, 2008 | Funding roundup - week ending in 12/6/08 | GoFish, Angie's List, Lucid Media are among companies that raised some funds
Here's a look at some of the funding announcements across the social network, community, video, digital media and advertising sectors.
GoFish raised $22.5 million ... |
| Dec 5, 2008 | Koofers raises $500K to pass along old exams, study guides | Every high school and college campus has unofficial channels for swapping old exams, opinions about teachers, study guides and grim grade distribution tales. Now online student community Koofers aims to centralize all of this on the web — a... |
| Nov 28, 2008 | Roundup: Yahoo’s Euro head out, e-commerce down, and more | Hope you had a delicious Thanksgiving. Here’s proof the news machine never stops:
Yahoo’s European head says arrivederce — Toby Coppel, in charge of Yahoo’s Western European market, is out, according to All Things D.
But Icahn is buying — B... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | Nabbr nabs $2.6M for social network marketing | Nabbr, a Chicago firm that specializes in digital marketing and widget development, brought in $2.57 million in a second round of funding from Allen & Co., Avalon Ventures and undisclosed others. The company has typically focused on wid... |
| Oct 25, 2008 | Funding roundup - week ending 10/24/08 | Movidia, Vidyo, and Shopit are among companies that raised funds
Here's another look at some of the funding announcements across the social network, community, video, digital media and advertising sectors.
Like raised $32.7 million from Men... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | Wix lands $3.5M to give amateurs the power of flash | Flash website builder Wix has brought in $3.5 million in second-round funding from Mangrove Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. The Israeli company has raised about $8.5 total since its founding in 2006 and hopes to continue deve... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | AdaptiveBlue brings in $4.5M for browsing plugins | AdaptiveBlue, developer of the Firefox add-on BlueOrganizer, announced that it raised $4.5 million in second-round financing to continue developing semantic-based browsing tools. Union Square Ventures and Biltmore Ventures contributed to th... |
| Oct 2, 2008 | The Copyright Royalty Board Does Nothing. iTunes' Rates Remain The Same | The Copyright Royalty Board has set rates that companies like Apple and Amazon must pay music publishers for each digital track they sell. And the rates, drum roll please, . . are the same as they were before: 9 cents per song. So everyone ... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | Ex-Friendster CEO's Uber Heads To The Deadpool | Uber, a publishing platform that was cofounded by artist Glenn Kaino and his cousin, former Friendster CEO and NBC West Coast president Scott Sassa, has called it quits. A notice on the site’s homepage states that Uber is latest victim of t... |
| Sep 13, 2008 | Verisign Selling Moreover, Weblogs Assets | Verisign is exploring the sale of its Moreover and Weblogs assets, we’ve confirmed from a source with knowledge of the sale process. Both businesses were acquired in October 2005 – Moreover for an estimated $25 million and Weblogs for an un... |
| Jun 17, 2008 | DJ Arrested For Selling Pre-Release Promo CDs On eBay | Just days after a US court ruled that selling promo CDs sent out by the recording industry is perfectly legal, Techdirt reader cram writes in to let us know of a DJ and music reviewer in London who was arrested for doing exactly the same th... |
| May 5, 2008 | Report: Microsoft Meeting with Time Warner Regarding AOL | News Report: Microsoft Meeting with Time Warner Regarding AOL By Becky NagelMay 05, 2008 Just two days after walking away from its $49.6 billion bid for Yahoo, the Times Online U.K . is reporting that Microsoft is meeting with Time Warner e... |
| Feb 29, 2008 | Akimbo, failed video distribution company, tries again, raises $8M | Akimbo, the San Mateo, Calif. company that tried to offer video over a set-top box, but gave up in May last year because no one was buying the box, has launched again with a different management team, $8 million in fresh funding and a diffe... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | Serious Drama, And Lots Of Stupidity, Behind Stage6 Shutdown | Yesterday San Diego based DivX announced the shutdown of popular video site Stage6, to the surprise and dismay of the site’s 17.4 million happy monthly visitors (the post on the shutdown has over 5,000 comments).
There’s lots of speculation... |
| Feb 15, 2008 | Roundup: Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down, Montalvo’s mobile chip and more | 1. Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down
2. Montalvo Systems vs. Intel, with chip for handheld devices
3. Fox Interactive to introduce “music Hulu for MySpace”
4. Yahoo’s board moving against Yang
5. Google searchers are wealthier, buy more online... |
| Feb 8, 2008 | Hollywood meets VC money, both online and offline | We’ve been covering how online video sites — especially YouTube — are seeing an uptick in traffic that may be due to the ongoing movie and television writers’ strike. Many video sites promise new ways for creative types like writers, actors... |
| Dec 20, 2007 | Mark Cuban hits Facebook friend limit | Mark Cuban has too many friends. To be fair, he doesn’t know most of them personally. He gets more than 100 friend requests every day on Facebook and he’s just recently hit the 5,000-friend limit. That’s right, you’re only allowed 5,000 fri... |
| Dec 13, 2007 | Led Zeppelin takes the bullet train to Squaresville? | Led Zeppelin gets a bustle in their hedgerow and demands that grainy, shaky, short clips or their reunion show be taken off of video sharing sites like YouTube. The band’s label, Warner Music, is "making the takedown requests to users ... |
| Dec 9, 2007 | Universal adds catalog to imeem | Imeem, a Web site that offers playlists of music, has become immensely popular because it’s free — and legal. The music is ad-supported, and imeem keeps adding more music to it’s offering.
Indeed, less than five months after announcing a ne... |
| Oct 22, 2007 | Facebook Experiments With Ads Targeting People's Interests | The big promise of advertising on social networks has always been the ability to target members by their own self-proclaimed interests and demographics. Facebook, as expected, has quietly taken a step in that direction with its Facebook Fly... |
| Aug 29, 2007 | D2C raises $6M more for downloadable video games | D2C Games, of San Mateo, Calif., has raised $6 million in a first round of funding round to develop more downloadable video games.
D2C is is run by Madden Football architect and Glu Mobile founder Scott Orr, and is backed by new Silicon Val... |
| Aug 2, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Sony PS3 Down, Kicked with More Litigation | Sony PS3 has to work through a couple litigation suits and can now add the PS3 cell processor to the list. Sony is on the receiving side of a litigation suit that claims that the PS3 infringes an almost 20 year old patent (via the magic of ... |
| Mar 20, 2007 | Copyright Royalty Board Senses Folks Aren't Too Happy About New Webcaster Rates | It appears that the uproar and protests following the US Copyright Royalty Board’s new webcasting royalty rates has (as many expected) caught the attention of the Copyright Royalty Board, who will now hold hearings about the rates, allowing... |
