| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.08.2024 | Mission AI Foundation: A New Dawn for AI on AWS | In the bustling world of technology, a new player has emerged. Mission Cloud Services Inc. has unveiled its latest offering: Mission AI Foundation. This service is designed to help businesses navigate the complex waters of artificial intell... |
| 31.07.2024 | Introducing Mission AI Foundation: Maximizing AI's Potential for Businesses on AWS | Mission Cloud
Mission AI Foundation Combines AI Expertise and Strategic Cost Management for Efficient Growth
LOS ANGELES, July 31, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Mission Cloud, a leading cloud and AI services and software provider, today announ... |
| 22.03.2022 | Netflix Pushes Further Into Video Games With First-Person Shooter Title | Netflix is expanding further into video games with the upcoming release of three new mobile titles, including its first-ever first-person shooter game.
The streaming giant has already released 14 titles since launching video games on mobile... |
| 28.01.2021 | Relationships Matter: Three Ways To Support Remote Teams | CEO of JibJab, a leading provider of social expression content specializing in digital branded entertainment eCards, satires and messages. |
| 29.12.2020 | Celebrating Wins In 2021 | By Allison Goldberg |
| 18.02.2019 | JibJab Receives Investment from St. Cloud Capital | JibJab, LLC, a Los Angeles-based provider of social expression content through branded satires, eCards, and messages, received an investment from St. Cloud Capital.
St. Cloud Capital partnered with San Francisco-based Catapult Capital in th... |
| 13.02.2019 | JibJab, one of the first silly selfie video makers, acquired by private equity firm Catapult Capital | JibJab, one of the first companies that let people insert selfies into videos, gifs and e-cards, has been acquired by Catapult Capital. The Los Angeles-based private equity firm announced the deal today, but did not disclose financial terms... |
| 13.02.2019 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 13 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
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| 19.12.2016 | Meet the Creator of Those Inescapable “Elf Yourself” Holiday Cards | For Gregg Spiridellis, the co-founder and CEO of JibJab, business has always been a family affair.
If JibJab doesn’t sound familiar, its product might: the company makes digital greeting cards that let users import photos of friends and fam... |
| 16.12.2014 | Video Chat with Santa Using the ‘Hello Santa’ App | Dear, world: Santa Claus is real. The end. Love, Ronald. Or, at least, you can make your kids actually believe this through a new iOS app and website available this holiday season. Called Hello Santa, the online service provides a way for y... |
| 01.10.2014 | JibJab Jumps Into Selfie Gifs With New Messaging App | Many hours have been spent on JibJab creating wacky e-cards for my friends and family throughout the years. I’ve “elfed myself,” sent my dad a pic of his face on every member of a five member mariachi band for his birthday and made many oth... |
| 23.01.2014 | Freak’n Genius raises $275K, adds social features to funny YAKiT app | Things are rolling for the folks over at Freak’n Genius.
Not only is the startup representing Seattle at the big Consumer Electronics Show or creating viral Seahawks videos, but now the company has announced more funding and updated apps.
F... |
| 01.05.2013 | Hilarious Freak’n Genius app YAKiT lets you move mouths to make photos funny | The folks over at Seattle-based Freak’n Genius certainly know how to make us laugh, and their newest app is no exception.
The latest LOL-inducing program is called YAKiT, a mobile app that lets you manipulate the mouths of your family, frie... |
| 27.11.2012 | Drop Everything Immediately And Make Your Own Gangnam Style Video With JibJab | Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!
A TechCrunch tradition: wasting time in the office by putting ourselves and coworkers into JibJab videos (and then posting them). They just released a Gangnam Style one, starring you a... |
| 16.11.2012 | Amazon Gets Into The Gif-ing Spirit, Launches Customizable Video Gift Cards In Partnership With JibJab | The rise of networks like Tumblr — a magnet for for ironic, self-created, animated Gifs — has given the short-form, quirky video a new place in our hearts. Amazon is now capitalizing on that with the creation of a new gift card format: vide... |
| 12.03.2012 | Freak’n Genius: Animation startup uses Microsoft Kinect to tap your inner goofball | Kyle Kesterson may be known around Seattle as a talented designer, artist and active participant in the Startup Weekend hackathons.
But did you know that the entrepreneur also was the Geico Gecko?
During University of Washington basketball ... |
| 28.06.2010 | JibJab Means Business, Now Processing 1 Million Transactions A Year | Online humor site JibJab, which is behind ElfYourself and loads of other zany videos has hit a big milestone: it’s now processing one million paid transactions per year. That’s big news for the company, which pivoted in late 2007 from an ad... |
| 04.05.2010 | JibJab Re-Creates The Original Star Wars Trilogy, Now Starring Your Friends | The Force is strong with JibJab. The humor site, which often puts together goofy animated adventures that you can customize with photos of your friends’ faces, has really outdone itself this time: in honor of the 30th anniversary of the rel... |
| 27.12.2009 | JibJab's Year In Review Plays Off 2009, With Help From Keyboard Cat | 2009 is coming to a close, which means it’s time to reflect on the events that shaped the last twelve months. And there’s nothing like a whirlwind animated musical to put everything into perspective. Cue JibJab, which has just released thei... |
| 09.11.2009 | They're Baaack! ElfYourself 2009 Is Now Live | It’s that time of year again. OfficeMax and JibJab have just launched the latest edition of ElfYourself, the massively popular website that features dancing elves you can customize to feature the faces of you and your friends. The site, whi... |
| 08.09.2009 | JibJab Helps You (And A Friend) Bust A Move With Soul Train Partnership | The folks at JibJab continue to pump out some of the funniest customized videos on the web. Last month they forged a deal with master parody maker Weird Al to bring custom versions of the song writer’s music video to the site. And today the... |
| 03.08.2009 | Dreams Do Come True: JibJab Lets You Star In Weird Al's Latest Music Video | We’re big fans of JibJab, the popular comedy site that offers an arrary of original parody videos and Ecards, most of which you can customize with goofy pictures of your friends. The site has previously Elfed the TechCrunch crew, stuck our ... |
| 08.01.2009 |
JibJab Raises $7.5M
| Venice, California-based JibJab, the online comedy site known for their politically-oriented, musical animations, said this morning that it has raised $7.5M in a Series C funding round. The round came from Overbrook Entertainment and Sony P... |
| 08.01.2009 | Polaris Antes Up for JibJab’s Third Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When I got an “ElfYourself” e-greeting from my brother’s family before Christmas 2007, I remember being surprised that the free greeting, though sponsored by OfficeMax, was ac... |
| 07.01.2009 | Gigya: December 23rd Was Biggest Day For Our Widgets, Ever | Gigya, the Israeli startup that helps other companies easily distribute their widgets, has released some of its latest figures on the recent holiday season.
Most notable: December 23rd set the new record for total number of widget installs ... |
| 07.01.2009 | JibJab Closes $7.5 Million Series C Round To Keep The Laughs Rolling | JibJab, a site popular for its parody videos and irreverent eGreetings, has closed a $7.5 million Series C funding round with participation from new investors Overbrook Entertainment (a production company co-founded by Will Smith) and Sony ... |
| 14.11.2008 | elves | http://aka.zero.jibjab.com/client/zero/ClientZero_EmbedViewer.swf?external_make_id=2S9aXFiZFMD2Dnqu&service=sendables.jibjab.com&partnerID=ElfYourself
Send your own ElfYourself eCards
(The back story). |
| 16.05.2008 | Storyblender Brings a Goofy Side to Casual Animation | Storyblender, which recently launched in private beta, is a new casual animation platform that will appeal to users who want customized movies in a hurry. The site was a presenter at TechCrunch 40. If you’d like to try it out, you can grab ... |
| 05.02.2008 | The Unreasonable Stance: HD DVD will be triumphant | [photopress:hddvdwins.jpg,full,center]
Welcome to the Unreasonable Stance, where our own Devin takes the minority opinion on a tech matter and defends it with convenient data, spun numbers, fanboyism, and insults until he proves, without a ... |
| 01.02.2008 | Big Stage’s 3D avatars may blow the competition out of the water | Big Stage wants to popularize 3D avatars based on pictures of your own face, and it looks more likely to do a good job of it than any other startup we’ve seen so far, comparing favorably to JibJab, the most popular site yet to feature anima... |
| 10.12.2007 | Rattlebox: all rattle, no bang | If you’ve ever wanted to send a personalized e-video card to someone, Rattlebox is for you.
The site lets you browse a variety of videos based on categories such as Birthdays, Holidays, Thanks, Sorry, Feel Better, and Most Popular. When you... |
| 05.12.2007 | JibJab Now Puts You In a Pepsi Ad—Thanks Lloyd Braun | We’ve written before about JibJab’s Sendables electronic video greeting cards that cost $0.50 to $3 each. Now, they found a sponsor in Pepsi for two holiday greeting videos through former Yahoo exec Lloyd Braun’s new company BermanBraun, wh... |
| 30.10.2007 | Happy Halloween From The Sick People at JibJab | http://www.jibjab.com/v/208029Los Angeles based JibJab continues to expand its business beyond its traditional political satires. They’ve recently released a for-pay virtual greeting card business called Sendables that will appeal to many p... |
| 29.10.2007 | Casual gaming worth $2.25 billion, and growing fast | While the enthusiast gaming market is somewhat stagnant, the casual gaming market is on a spurt, growing 20 percent each year. Casual games are smaller and cheaper to develop than blockbusters like Halo, but also less lucrative. However, wh... |
| 24.10.2007 | Roundup: Planet Google crowded, Verizon backs off, and more | Here’s the latest action:
1) Google facing employee overload
2) Verizon Wireless abandons legal challenge of FCC rules
3) Qualcomm comes up with competition for WiMAX
4) Could Yahoo finally be giving up social networking?
5) Google’s PageRa... |
| 24.10.2007 | JibJab Raises $3m More For Video Content | Comedic web animation house and video sharing site JibJab has raised a second round of funding; this $3m B round from previous investors Polaris Venture Partners makes more than $6m total the company has banked from investors. Credit for br... |
| 24.10.2007 | JibJab Raises $3 Million Series B | “JIB JAB!” This is what two animated men have been saying for the last 8 years; one man has a middle-parted comb-over and the other has frizzy hair and a thick mustache. |
| 04.10.2007 | Exclusive: Arrington Goes Nuts in "Unnecesary Force" | This just went live from JibJab. There are now two new movies in their Starring You line of animations where you can upload your head to star in the movie. Here’s one with Arrington and me called Unnecessary Force, which jibjab kindly made ... |
| 17.09.2007 | Reinventing the Series A | [This is an Op-Ed piece by Ted Wang, an attorney at Fenwick & West, a Silicon Valley law firm]
There is a new breed of Series A financings. For a number of reasons as described by Josh Kopelman among others, founders are increasing look... |
| 07.04.2007 | My Visit To Jib Jab | Twitter‘s starting to do some interesting work for me. The guys from Jib Jab saw on my blog yesterday morning that I was in Venice, California. They emailed me and invited me over to visit their offices. Jessica wanted to go to Santa Monica... |
| 28.03.2007 | New JibJab Video – The News | http://www.jibjab.com/watch/583911
JibJab, the creators of the famous 2004 U.S. presidential election parody cartoon “This Land” have a new original video out called “The News,” embedded above. The new video premiered tonight at the annual ... |
| 07.01.2007 | EPA information should make GreenPeace red-faced over Apple targeting | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 12.12.2006 | Caroling For Pop Culture: Sing Along With "Nuckin' Futs" By JibJab | Warning: this post is not for my readers without a sense of humor. If you have no sense of humor, skip to the next story post haste. If you have a sense of humor, please treat yourself to some nightcap entertainment by way of JibJab’s lates... |
| 20.10.2006 | JibJab's "Great Sketch Experiment" | If you have no idea what JibJab is, turn the volume up on your computer and start with their original parody cartoon of the 2004 U.S. presidential election called “This Land,” which has been viewed more than 80 million times. Then go watch ... |
| 28.07.2004 | Are TV Networks Inducing Infringement? | Ernest Miller writes “Techdirt has already noted the copyright controversy over JibJab‘s version of “This Land is Your Land.” Some say the flash animation is protected parody, others infringing satire. Now the Home Recording Rights Coalitio... |
| 26.07.2004 | JibJab Threatened Over Use Of Woody Guthrie Song | For the last few weeks, the JibJab site and their amusing political parody of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” has been getting passed around the net. It’s well done, and deserves much of the praise it’s been getting. However, it ap... |
| - | Office Hours: JibJab CEO Paul Hanges on Creating Viral Joy | Even if people don't know the brand by name, JibJab CEO Paul Hanges is happy to see the company's greeting cards resonate and its mission to make people laugh continue to thrive.
On this episode of Office Hours, Hanges talks about JibJab, a... |
