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| Sep 5, 2008 | E-Commerce marketing co. ChannelAdvisor raises cash, trims staff | ChannelAdvisor, a company that lets online retailers manage product marketing across marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon.com, Overstock.com and a series of shopping comparison sites, has raised an additional $20 million, VentureWire reports. ... |
| Sep 4, 2008 | Social stock site Cake Financial launches new stock ranking and recommendation features | Cake Financial, a startup that lets you compare stock picks with other investors, is unveiling three features that may help separate it from a large pack of competitors.
The San Francisco, Calif.-based company already lets users import hist... |
| Aug 13, 2008 | Cut your legal fees using Y Combinator’s funding documents | Updated
Startup incubator Y Combinator may have just saved your company a big pile of money in legal fees. The firm just published a set of standardized legal documents that startups can use when raising angel rounds of funding.
Y Combinato... |
| Aug 5, 2008 | LaunchBox Unleashes Its First Nine Startups | What does $25,000 and 12 weeks get you? If you are a startup funded by LaunchBoxDigital, it gets you a working alpha or beta site. Based in Washington, D.C., LaunchBox is the latest seed-fund incubator to take the “Build ’em cheap and build... |
| May 20, 2008 | Startup Genomni offers one-click screen sharing for product demos, distance learning | While some used the Web 2.0 conference in San Fransisco a few weeks back to reiterate bubble forecasts, some entrepreneurs were pitching their companies with frenzied fervor.
Marc LeFrancois was one of them.
The Canada-based entrepreneur cr... |
| May 7, 2008 | New internet radio service MiRoamer could catch on fast | While social music sites are taking off and the search for a new and relevant business model for the music industry is on, Torian Wireless is reaching millions of users the old-fashioned way: radio.
Torian Wireless recently re-launched MiRo... |
| May 5, 2008 | Prime Sense claims to have the best 3D game controller | A few months ago, VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall highlighted the various players in the gesture recognition technology space, speculating that “one day, very soon, you’ll be able to control an avatar or character on a screen with a mere g... |
| Apr 21, 2008 | MySpace apps: SightSpeed releases video chat | SightSpeed, a desktop-based video conferencing application, tomorrow launches SightSpeed Light (see screenshot below), a widget video conferencing app, on the Myspace application platform.
SightSpeed Light provides a Flash-based free video ... |
| Apr 10, 2008 | Live video streaming company UStream.TV raises $11.1 million | http://ustream.tv/I9qIAGp79s6P76CrBpi1wQ.uscUStream.TV, a live video-streaming application, has raised $11.1 million in a first round of funding from venture capital firm DCM, as well as previous investors Labrador Ventures and The Band of ... |
| Apr 9, 2008 | Social video startup uvLayer looks to be growing up fast | Social video startup Unknown Vector launched a browser-based version of its uvLayer application yesterday.
I covered the company back in February following the release of its uvLayer desktop-only app (built on Adobe AIR), and I was pretty i... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Covestor joins the ranks of funded investment sites | Covestor, an investing community site, has raised $6.5 million in its second round of funding. The London and New York-based company plans to build out its asset management platform, which helps its users make investment decisions.
Covestor... |
| Mar 6, 2008 | Adconion snaps up direct marketing co. with new funding | Germany-based ad network Adconion Media Group is moving quickly to spend the $80 million it raised a few weeks ago.
The company just announced that it has acquired Frontline Direct, a data management and direct marketing company, for $20 mi... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | Guitar playing startup hopes to cash in on instructional videos | Wannabe guitar players seem to have become a promising market lately.
Last year, popular console music games Guitar Hero and Rockband outsold digital music sales by over $100 million, according to sources cited by game-review site Primotech... |
| Feb 19, 2008 | DVD Jon strikes again, to “liberate” music and video | Companies still releasing music and movies locked with digital rights management technology may have one more software application to worry about.
DoubleTwist, Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen’s (aka DVD Jon, pictured here) latest sta... |
| Feb 14, 2008 | Overlay.tv launches new platform for video ads | Overlay.tv today launched a video-commerce platform that may give marketers a new way to monetize on online video.
Even online video mammoth Google/YouTube hasn’t successfully implemented a way to extract revenue from its billions of user g... |
| Feb 12, 2008 | Music publishing: Kobalt banks on broadening revenue streams for artists | updated
There are five arms to the music industry: The record label, publisher (sometimes combined), managers, artists, and fans. While we’ve previously examined labels, and surveyed numerous sites that help fans in their attempt to get mus... |
| Feb 12, 2008 | Startup wants to help you build and manage video-clip collections | Video is getting a lot more social — and a new startup is trying to make it even easier to discover and share videos. The company’s called Unknown Vector, and it launched its social video desktop application, uvLayer, just a couple of weeks... |
| Feb 11, 2008 | A survey of social investing sites: 11 contenders | We’ve seen social editing, social networking, social news, social bookmarking, and even social music take off. Now a social shock to the system is coming to a market usually dominated by insiders and experts: the finance industry.
Online tr... |
| Feb 8, 2008 | UStream.TV looking to raise round, may be getting acquisition offers | http://ustream.tv/eFE24z9sKcTR7Z1Cw0.SMw.usc
Lifestreaming site UStream.TV is rumored to be in talks with Microsoft, for a purchase price of $50 million. However, the company’s chief executive, Chuck Wallace, tells us only that the company ... |
| Feb 5, 2008 | MTV, Flixwagon partner for Super Tuesday mobile news | Live video mobile broadcaster Flixwagon has partnered with MTV in an attempt to promote citizen journalism today, Super Tuesday.
MTV is using Flixwagon’s mobile-to-web broadcasting platform for its “Street Team” of youth journalists coverin... |
| Jan 31, 2008 | Amazon buys Audible — giving it triple threat of print, digital, audio | Amazon said it will buy Audible, a digital audiobook publisher, for roughly $300 million.
Audible provides 80,000 products in audio form, ranging from books by famed authors Stephen King and Jane Austen, newspapers such as the New York Time... |
| Jan 30, 2008 | Music remix | To say the music business is a bit volatile would be a gross understatement — at least looking at this past week. Just one week ago, I posted a comparison of 38 of the best sites for listening to music on the cheap. Since then, one company ... |
| Jan 23, 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... |
| Jan 17, 2008 | Conduit gets $8M for toolbar for the masses | Conduit, an Israel-based startup that lets anyone customize a browser toolbar that they can offer to their friends or others, reports rapid user growth.
Rapid enough, at least, to draw $8 million in a second round of financing from aggressi... |
| Jan 15, 2008 | Kenyan tech bloggers launch crisis-report site | A week ago, Africa tech blogger Erik Hersman read a post by Kenyan tech and human rights blogger Ory Okolloh calling for a web application to track incidents of violence and areas of need during the post-election turmoil in Kenya.
Within a ... |
| Jan 10, 2008 | STEP Labs to reduce headset noise, raises cash | updated
Last week we covered Jawbone’s noise-cancelling bluetooth headset, but this week STEP Labs debuted a headset technology that STEP chief executive Robert Mitro says will blow the competition out of the water.
Mitro says STEP’s techno... |
| Jan 10, 2008 | Thai whiz kid launches location-aware Twitter-like service | A 23-year old programmer in Thailand has launched a Twitter-like service that lets users add location-based information to their Facebook profile, website, or blog.
The Thailand-based service is called LetsProveWhere, and Peerapong Pulpitpa... |
| Jan 9, 2008 | Outspark out to change online game culture | Outspark, a rapidly growing community games publisher with one million users in just five months, is out to change the online game market.
Based in both San Fransisco and Seoul, Korea, Outspark wants to challenge the subscription-based mode... |
| Jan 8, 2008 | 5pm releases strong project management offering | 5pm, a product of QG Software, is some pretty slick project management software, and it’s brought to you by two guys from Cincinatti, Ohio and two programmers in Eastern Europe–all with out any funding.
5pm offers the same project managemen... |
| Jan 7, 2008 | Kenya’s tech investments mean more eyes are on present turmoil | The popular press in the U.S. has given a high volume of coverage to the recent political and ethnic unrest in Kenya (Over 300 dead, 100,000 misplaced, with conflict mostly along ethnic divides)–more coverage than other African conflicts ha... |
| Jan 7, 2008 | Updates on live TV companies: Nowlive and Mogulus | I recently did an article comparing 14 web and mobile applications that offer live TV, and want to make two updates.
First, little did I know, I left one out: Nowlive, a company that has an alternative business model to the usual ad-base fa... |
| Jan 4, 2008 | Geospatial new-comer Earthmine to use Nasa mapping technology | With the Crunchies just a couple of weeks away, we’ve covered most the contenders on this site, with a few exceptions. One is Earthmine, a nominee in the Best Technology Innovation/Achievement category.
The company is building a geospatial ... |
| Jan 3, 2008 | betNow lets you bet on almost anything from your cellphone | updated
UK’s Balderton Capital, the venture capital firm that backed companies like social network Bebo and video game developer Codemasters, is hedging its bets again: literally.
This morning, mobile betting company, betNOW, headed up by a... |
| Jan 2, 2008 | 14 ways to broadcast yourself…live | updated
Thanks to the meteoric rise of YouTube, anyone with a video camera and an internet connection can be a star. More recently, they can live stream themselves to you 24/7, even from a mobile phone. Here we take a look at 14 companies c... |