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| Oct 17, 2011 | Skype and Rdio founder to challenge Netflix with Vdio (updated) | 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!
One of the founders of Skype and Rdio has decided... |
| Jun 16, 2010 | Demand Media Taps Joost For Video Advertising Sales And Technology | Video distribution and monetization platform provider Joost, owned by Adconion Media Group since its assets were acquired in November 2009, is today announcing a global sales and technology partnership with online publishing powerhouse Dema... |
| Apr 14, 2010 | Joost Video Network Stuns With Big Reach: 67 Million Viewers Per Month | Straight out of left field, the Joost Video Network has assumed the number 2 spot in comScore’s Video Metrix “Top 100 Properties”, second only to Google.
The Joost network, which is now operated by Adconion after the company’s acquisition o... |
| Mar 4, 2010 | Joost Starts Second Life Under The Adconion Flag | Joost, the failed video venture started by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, was put out of its misery in November 2009 when Adconion Media Group decided to pick up the remains of the company for an undisclosed sum.
Today, th... |
| Dec 22, 2009 | Lessons from 10 disappointing tech stories of 2009 | So it’s the end of 2009 and an appropiate time to take stock. We’re not going to bore you with a long analysis of the year. Suffice it to say that funding for startup tech companies remains tight. And when VCs are running out of LPs to go t... |
| Nov 24, 2009 | Joost Is Now Officially Dead – Assets Acquired By Adconion Media Group | Adconion Media Group announced this morning that it has acquired certain key assets from Joost, the ill-fated online video service started by the infamous Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. The terms of the transacti... |
| Oct 29, 2009 | Voddler, the Spotify-for-movies, partners with Paramount and Disney | [Sweden] Voddler, the Stockholm-based online video offering that’s being described as “Spotify for movies”, has signed content partnerships with Paramount and Disney. A deal with Sony Pictures is also said to be eminent.
Voddler, Inc., the ... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | Joost UK dissolves, office furniture already in the hands of another startup | The once immensely hyped and heavily-funded video company Joost continues its unceremonious journey to the deadpool.
TechCrunch Europe has learnt that the startup, famously co-founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, put ... |
| Sep 18, 2009 | Joost sues Mike Volpi and Index Ventures over theft of information used in Skype bid | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Online video player Joost and the founders of Skype have filed a lawsuit against Joost’s former chief executive and chairman, Mike Volp... |
| Sep 18, 2009 | The Plot Thickens: Skype Founders And Joost Sue Former Chairman And CEO Mike Volpi | The Skype -eBay plot thickens. Joost and Joltid, both companies owned by Skype’s founders, have filed a lawsuit against former Joost chairman and CEO, Mike Volpi. The suit also names Index Ventures, the VC firm where Volpi is a partner. In ... |
| Sep 18, 2009 | Joost sues Mike Volpi and Index Ventures over theft of information used in Skype bid | Online video player Joost and the founders of Skype have filed a lawsuit against Joost’s former chief executive and chairman, Mike Volpi, for alleged theft of company information that was used in the successful bid for Skype. It also named ... |
| Sep 16, 2009 | Skype founders sue eBay for copyright violations | Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis filed suit today against eBay, the owner of their the intenet telephone technology since 2005, alleging that the auction site violated a copyright agreement that it wouldn’t share the propriet... |
| Sep 16, 2009 | Skype founders sue eBay for copyright violations | 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!
Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis f... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | Funny or Die goes mobile by pairing up with Babelgum | Lovers of Animals Do The Funniest Things-type video fluffery, rejoice! Mobile and web content platform Babelgum just announced a partnership with top humour site Funny or Die. You’ll soon be able to get your fix of comedy on the move via a ... |
| Jul 1, 2009 | Joost's Last Hope Isn't A Promising One | It’s sad to see a company that we were all so excited about fade further into oblivion. Today Joost, one of the most anticipated startups in 2006/2007, is just an also ran in a sea of big online video sites like YouTube and Hulu. Today CEO ... |
| Jul 1, 2009 | Hulu beatdown leads Joost to say goodbye to consumer video | reader comments 19 with 18 posters participating
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| Jun 30, 2009 | When Hype Isn’t Enough: Joost Changes Strategies and Will Now Focus on White Label Solutions | Not too long ago, Joost was the poster child for the online video revolution. It featured a slick desktop player with innovative controls, good video quality, and it was developed by the team behind Skype and Kazza. It seemed like nothing c... |
| May 7, 2009 | Comcast Roundup: “Worst Company in America,” Hulu threatens and More | Comcast’s place as this year’s “Worst Company in America” is being voted on today in the final round of the annual event held by Consumerist, the Consumer’s Union-owned nonprofit Web site. It is vying for lowlight with AIG — called the batt... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | Freewheel nabs $12M for online video advertising | FreeWheel, an online video advertising platform that helps broker revenue-share deals between content providers, distributors and publishers, has closed $12 million in a third round of funding provided by Foundation Capital and Battery Vent... |
| Apr 24, 2009 | Joost: For sale, or just fortifying? | The buzz in the online vid biz is that Joost, a once touted video portal, might be headed for a buyout. After two years of going it alone, the company is rumored to be in talks with Time Warner Cable and satellite providers for a possible d... |
| Apr 10, 2009 | Cross Your Fingers: Zennstrom and Friis Might Buy Back Skype From eBay | Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, are trying to pile up enough cash from investors and their own bank accounts to buy the company back from eBay, according to an admirable scoop of a report by Brad Stone at the New Yo... |
| Mar 12, 2009 | Hulu jumps on the social bandwagon with Hulu Friends | To celebrate its one-year anniversary, Hulu launched its brand new social networking feature Hulu Friends today, allowing users to connect the video site to their Facebook and MySpace profiles. The service will record users’ Hulu activities... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | Joost hooks up with Netlog | Joost – the streaming video service that started as a P2P client, failed, and went back to the Web – has partnered with Netlog, the MySpace-like social Netlog prominent in continental Europe.
Netlog’s 40 million users can now access Joost’s... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog | Don’t count out Joost just yet. We recently wrote it still has a heartbeat despite the fact they made the wrong bet years ago by underestimating the power of the web for watching videos. They finally switched to Flash late last year, giving... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | Index Ventures infuses biotech and cleantech with $438.8M | Index Ventures just announced the closure of a $438.8 million fund intended to finance young biotechnology and cleantech portfolio companies. This is the sixth seed and early-stage fund the London-based firm has raised. Perhaps best know fo... |
| Feb 26, 2009 | The Joost-Ooyala hookup | Joost Selects Ooyala's Backlot platform technology for content management and video uploading
Joost, a popular online web video site, is betting that back-end technology developed by Ooyala, a video platform provider, will enable the compan... |
| Feb 20, 2009 | Joost Taps Ooyala | Big Name Advisors From Joost and IBM Join Ooyala's Board of Advisors
Online video provider, Ooyala, confirmed it is providing video technology services for Joost. The Mountain View, CA based company deferred further details to an official a... |
| Jan 20, 2009 | Obama's historic inauguration and coverage | Twitter, Facebook, YouTube to deliver Barack Obama 2009 presidential inauguration
How times have changed.
Move over ABC, CBS and NBC, there are new ways to follow the news these days - Twittter, Facebook and YouTube.
On Tuesday, the world w... |
| Jan 20, 2009 | CNN, Facebook win presidential inauguration live-streaming contest (kinda) | I woke up this morning without access to a TV — I didn’t have time to go find a place to watch Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration. So I decided to watch online. The problem was that just about every video-streaming service I’ve been t... |
| Jan 19, 2009 | Watch the 2009 Presidential Inauguration without a TV | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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As Inauguration Day looms, people around the world are looking for ways to keep up with the goings on without having to be stra... |
| Jan 19, 2009 | Video startups clamour for Obama traffic with live streams | Tomorrow will be one heck of a day for social media as people live blog, Twitter and video the inauguration ceremony of US President-elect Barack Obama live from Washington. And any self-respecting startup will be trying to get their share ... |
| Jan 18, 2009 | The TechCrunch Guide To The Inauguration | Whether you are headed to Washington for the Obama Inauguration or simply want to follow along online, there is no shortage of sites and applications dedicated to the national party on Tuesday, January 20. Of course, every major news site (... |
| Jan 14, 2009 | Joost streams presidential inauguration | Web video site Joost will be offering a live stream of inauguration day festivities on Tuesday when Barack Obama is sworn in as the 56th United States President.
The site already features an extensive collection of video related to the Pres... |
| Jan 6, 2009 | Getting video from the web to your phone | RipCode, a video transcoding solution receives $12.5 million in funding
From news to entertainment, someway or another we are all watching video on our smart phones.
RipCode, an on demand video transcoding provider announced they received $... |
| Jan 2, 2009 | For Your Imagination's distribution play | FYI increases advertising and sponsorship revenue for Web video by 34%
Spring 2009 Upfront - For Your Imagination Reel - Nov2008
Digital media and web video studio For Your Imagination has been successful in defining itself as a leader in o... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Joost Just Gives Up On P2P Altogether | Joost’s two year old online video service was a pretty darned smart idea when it first launched.
Instead of streaming video through the Joost website, users would download a Mozilla-based client and watch it there instead. The user experien... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Watercooler Brings Content From Every Major Television Network To Its 16MM TV Fans | The race is on between sites like Hulu and Joost to bring video content to the web, but as this content becomes more ubiquitous it will be the sites that go beyond basic video streaming that will ultimately be able to differentiate themselv... |
| Nov 29, 2008 | Joost iPhone App makes us remember Joost again | Joost launched their iPhone application on the App Store this evening, giving users access to 46,000 Joost videos, including major television shows and films. The iPhone has a built in YouTube application already, giving them a serious head... |
| Nov 28, 2008 | Joost Launches A Broken iPhone App | Joost launched their iPhone application on the App Store this evening, giving users access to 46,000 Joost videos, including major television shows and films. The iPhone has a built in YouTube application already, giving them a serious head... |
| Nov 26, 2008 | Sling opens Hulu competitor | Sling Media, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has opened the gates to its video portal Sling.com. The site pits Sling directly against Joost and Hulu (though Hulu is a Sling partner), allowing users to ... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | Sling Opens Up Its Hulu Competitor To The Public | Sling Media, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has opened the gates to its video portal Sling.com. The site pits Sling directly against Joost and Hulu (though Hulu is a Sling partner), allowing users to ... |
| Nov 1, 2008 | DirectTV May Enter Online TV War With "Web On Demand" Service | We’ve received a couple of anonymous tips that DirectTV, a $24 billion satellite TV provider, may be entering the online TV wars with a new site called DirectTV Web On Demand. The site would compete with startups like Hulu, Joost, Fancast, ... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Howcast lands $2M more for how-to videos | Instructional video producer Howcast Media reeled in an additional $2 million in first-round financing from private individuals in the media industry, reports VentureWire. This bumps its total to $10 million, with some funding coming from T... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | 10 Reasons Why Joost’s New Service Fails | Last week, the internet video service Joost relaunched as a Flash-based online portal, having finally ditched their downloadable player for good. The service, once hyped as the next big thing, has long been overshadowed by the much sleeker ... |
| Oct 14, 2008 | Joost re-launches as a Flash-based movie site | Contrary to earlier reports saying that P2P TV service Joost would release a browser plug-in not based on Adobe Flash, the site has done just that.
Joost has relaunched its free streaming TV service in Flash and intends for in-browser conte... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | Joost Turns On Its All-Flash Website. Is Anybody Watching? | Without much fanfare, Joost has finally turned on the browser version of its Web video service, as we noted it would last month. The new site is all based on Flash, and lets you watch old Bruce Lee flicks, Sci-Fi movies like The Fifth Eleme... |
| Oct 7, 2008 | Hulu Goes Live: Will Stream Presidential Election Debates | Hulu made its name by providing time-shifted access to one of the web’s largest libraries of television shows. For tonight’s second presidential debate in the U.S., Hulu will also introduce live streaming. The feed will be provided by NBC a... |
| Oct 2, 2008 | Sling Media video portal takes live TV, clip-sharing online | Sling Media, known primarily for the SlingBox, a device that can stream your home television signal to you anywhere in the world, is branching onto the web today with a limited beta release of Sling.com, a video portal that will let users n... |
| Sep 23, 2008 | Hulu Launches All Kinds Of Stuff To Keep You Defocused On Joost | There’s no way Hulu is going to let Joost get a foothold in the race for attention in online professionally produced video.
So what happens when Joost ditches the download, goes all browser and launches a social network around their content... |
| Sep 20, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 15-19 September 2008 | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week we surveyed the leading online banking products and 10 recommended photo sharing sites. We also checked out a new ‘deep web’ search tool and reported on... |
| Sep 18, 2008 | New Joost Launches Now. And Next Month Joost Will Be 100% Flash. | The new browser-based Joost, which we wrote about two weeks ago (screen shots here), launches this morning. The new Joost still requires a plug-in to facilitate P2P transfers of files (reducing Joost’s bandwidth costs and making high-demand... |
| Sep 5, 2008 | Breaking: Joost Turns to the Web for Help | Joost, battling for relevance in the online tv world against Hulu and others, will soon no longer require users to download separate desktop software to access the service (its existing software is based on Xul). Instead users will be able ... |
| Sep 5, 2008 | Screenshots And Video Of The New Joost | So much for Joost’s carefully prepared plans to release a browser version of their TV over IP service later this month. News leaked this morning that Joost would be abandoning their year old XUL based desktop client in favor of a browser ba... |
| Aug 5, 2008 | 900 Start-ups, 3 New Experts, and 3 New Partners… | TechCrunch50 is now just a month away, and we are very busy here reviewing the nearly 900 start-ups from 49 different countries that have applied. The ideas and innovations that have been brought to our attention are mind blowing. You will ... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | Social.fm Shuts Down: Doomed by Its Client? | Mercora, which last year renamed itself to Social.fm, was one of the earliest entrants into the music discovery market and launched to generally favorable reviews in early 2005. Now, however, as GigaOm reports, Social.fm has shut down its s... |
| Jun 11, 2008 | TidalTV Stealthily Launches Public Beta | Not much has been known about TidalTV, a Baltimore, Maryland-based broadband video startup, besides the fact that they had plans to launch a “professionally produced, branded programming” service which would run through the browser. In Febr... |
| May 22, 2008 | Howcast Aligns With AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv | Howcast, the instructional video site founded by three ex-Googlers, today announced that it has formed distribution agreements with AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv.
Howcast provides professionally produced instructional videos that range f... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | Help Steal This Film Win $30K | Steal This Film Part 1 was mostly about the raid on The Pirate Bay and its aftermath. Part 2 however, views filesharing from a broader perspective and looks into the historical dimension of this movement. The film features admins from The P... |
| Apr 12, 2008 | MLB.TV: How Not to Handle Video Online | Take a look at next-generation video sites like Hulu and Joost. It's encouraging to see engineers raising the bar for the experience of watching television online.
Then there is that tireless standard bearer for lowering the bar: MLB.TV. Th... |
| Apr 5, 2008 | Joost To Undertake Major Restructure | Joost is said to be preparing a “major retrenchment” of staff as part of a restructure that will see Joost abandon its global ambitions for the US only.
According to the Sunday Times, Joost has struggled to convince media and sports compani... |
| Apr 2, 2008 | Blinkx looks to IPTV with Joost-like BBTV offering | Video search company Blinkx has combined an IPTV offering similar to Joost with its speech and visual recognition technology, which is now available for the Windows platform.
In order to watch BBTV, users will need to download a small 1.8MB... |
| Apr 1, 2008 | Blinkx Dabbles in Broadband TV With Its Own Joost-Like Service | Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Blinkx, the video search engine, is getting into video distribution. Today it will launch BBTV, a downloadable player that streams video from content partners using peer-to-peer technology.
The initi... |
| Mar 20, 2008 | March Sadness: Joost's pipes, they are clogged | Wonh, woonnh. Seems Joost is acting up with the live streams of the NCAA games.
I was able to get a split-second worth of one of those stupid cell shaded Charles Schwab commercials but every other time I’ve tried to get a one of the games l... |
| Mar 20, 2008 | In case you hadn't heard, all NCAA games are on Joost | Just a heads up that Joost will be conducting a test run of every game in the NCAA tournament, streamed live.
There’s a fair amount of warning that this is a test of Joost’s live streaming capabilities, so take that into consideration if yo... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | TidalTV to create professionally produced video content on the web, secures $15M | TidalTV, a new broadband video startup specializing in professionally produced content, has secured a large angel round of funding, the company announced on Tuesday.
The company, based in Baltimore, Maryland, hopes to produce “the best in p... |
| 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... |
| Jan 18, 2008 | Turmoil at Joost as CTO sacked then hired by BBC on the same day | Is Joost going to last the year? The P2P TV yesterday confirmed it had fired CTO Dirk-Willem van Gulik, who then promptly turned up as a new hire at the BBC on the same day. He will be chief technical architect of the BBC Future Media and T... |
| Dec 25, 2007 | Top Web Apps & Sites of 2007 | It’s the end of the year and so time for ‘best of’ and prediction posts, which are a lot of fun. Today I’ve been re-organizing my Firefox bookmarks, which made me reflect on which web apps and sites I’ve used the most this year. I encourage... |
| Dec 17, 2007 | Consumer Apps: 2007 Year in Review | “Consumer apps” is a rather broad topic to tackle, so rather than try to recount everything that has happened across the entire cosmos of consumer web applications in the past year, we’ll focus on two areas that have had perhaps the most im... |
| Dec 14, 2007 | Cybercafe Regulars Can Now Manage Their Digital Lives with Jooce | Jooce, the Flash-based web desktop we covered in August with an unfortunate name (Joost, anyone?) , has opened its doors for business.
The Parisian development team behind Jooce seeks to provide the millions of people who use internet cafes... |
| Dec 4, 2007 | High Definition Video Coming to Hulu, Samples Available | Hulu, the joint online video venture between NBC and News Corp, has given private beta testers a sneak peak at the high definition video that should soon be available on the net more ubiquitously now that Flash supports the H.264 video code... |
| Nov 16, 2007 | Will There Be A New Bittorrent? | At the end of October one of the admins of the world's largest Bittorrent site sat down for an interview and predicted the protocol's demise. Citing Bittorrent, Inc.'s corporate ties and some technical limitations, brokep announced that The... |
| Nov 5, 2007 | Joost Partners With Meebo | Joost, the desktop-based long-form video service that aims to take on the old TV model with a large pile of venture capital, is scrapping one of its defining features built in-house, inline chat, and replacing it with outside chat service m... |
| Nov 5, 2007 | Joost To Have Chat Via Meebo | New online video startup Joost may have been somewhat overshadowed by Hulu news the last month or so, but that doesn’t mean they’ve disappeared entirely.
Tonight they’ve announced a very cool new feature to the service – instant messaging, ... |
| Nov 1, 2007 | Miro talks trash, takes aim at Joost with its over 2,000 channels | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Oct 29, 2007 | Skinkers Raises $16 Million Series B | Skinkers, the UK company that is building a P2P live TV platform with Microsoft, has taken $16 million Series B in a round led by Acacia Capital Partners that included original investors Spark Ventures and the Skinkers Management team.
Skin... |
| Oct 8, 2007 | Joost signs ITN News | As Internet P2P broadcaster Joost begins going public with its beta software and signing deals with broadcasters, the latest is with number three UK news network ITN which will provide Joost with short news, sports, business and weather bul... |
| Oct 1, 2007 | Joost Beta Open to the Public | (Above: CSI‘s William Petersen tries to find a way to turn Joost off.)
Streaming video company Joost on Monday opened its services to the general public. No need for tokens!
According to the site, you’ll need to download the “Beta 1.0” clie... |
| Oct 1, 2007 | Roundup: Adobe’s product launches, Joost, eBay-Skype charge, and more | Here’s an (updated) summary of the latest action:
–Adobe launches online-offline media player, and Share. Other applications launch using Adobe’s AIR
–Microsoft launches Office Live WorkSpace
–Joost officially launches its online TV service... |
| Oct 1, 2007 | Joost Officially Launches | This past July we reported that Joost, a company that has been working for two years to provide quality on-demand IPTV, would launch by the end of this year.
Today, the company announces the availability of public Beta 1.0 on its blog. This... |
| Sep 28, 2007 | Joost quietly slips 1.0 beta out the door for Mac (and Windows) | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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The Joost team has finally released version 1.0 (beta) of the P2P video software this fine, fourth Friday of September, which b... |
| Sep 25, 2007 | Bittorrent pirates shut down, will Joost get a boost? | Within the past week, three of the most popular sites for peer-to-peer sharing have either turned off or banned users from the United States. Most recent is Demonoid, the second most popular sharing site; it appears to have been cut off by ... |
| Aug 31, 2007 | Roundup: Joost’s API, Fliqz’s easy video toolbar, NBC-iTunes rift, more | Here’s this morning’s roundup of the latest action:
Joost opens widget API to developers: Joost, the oft-hyped online video site started by the founders of Skype, has soft-launched an application programming interface this week. It is tryin... |
| Jul 24, 2007 | 8 Internet TV Apps in 8 Weeks | Since we launched last100 (a Read/WriteWeb network blog) just over eight weeks ago, I’ve been obsessively trying out every Internet TV application that I can get my hands on. Here’s a quick recap of the Internet TV apps we’ve profiled so fa... |
| Jul 12, 2007 | Top 5 Hottest Product Launches of 2007 | So far in 2007 we’ve seen some exceptional web app launches. From video to
micro-blogging, new startups have transformed the web landscape. So what defines a ‘hot
launch’? Obviously, a great product is essential, but also the ability to gen... |
| Jun 19, 2007 | VeohTV Launches – Taking Direct Aim at Joost | Dmitry Shapiro CEO of Veoh invited me to a
GoToMeeting webinar today to unveil a serious challenger in the Web TV market. VeohTV
Beta, subtly billed as a “Joost Killer”, is actually an amazing development in
online video viewing. The impetu... |
| Jun 18, 2007 | HTTP Traffic Overtakes P2P, Courtesy of YouTube | The data gathered by Ellacoya, a company that offers broadband service optimization solutions for IP networks, shows that 46% of all Internet traffic is generated by HTTP traffic, compared to 37% by P2P.
In comparison, two years ago, 65% of... |
| Jun 14, 2007 | Veoh, the high-quality video sharing site, raises $26M | (Updated with Comscore and Hitwise stats, which show Veoh’s numbers lower than the company states; also updated with a fuller list of investors)
Veoh, the San Diego video-sharing site backed by former Disney exec Michael Eisner, has raised ... |
| Jun 8, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Microsoft to Take on Joost? | Two things show a company is getting ramped up to enter a business – filing for patents and lining up a trademark.
Microsoft has done both in the online video arena and could be in a position to take on Joost. A recently filed trademark ima... |
| Jun 1, 2007 | Roundup: Google’s Korean clutter, Real’s player, Panoramio and more | Here’s the latest action:
Google Korea has cluttered page — This is a striking departure from the spartan interface Google is known for. Details here. We checked with Google, and a spokeswoman confirmed the Korean site was developed in resp... |
| May 22, 2007 | 10,000 Joost Invites | Joost has created our very own signup page for Joost invitations. Just go there and get one. There are 10,000 to start (proving that Joost loves us just half as much as GigaOm, but oh well), and more will come later.
This is much easier tha... |
| May 14, 2007 | CBS’ New Online Video Strategy: Court Web 2.0 | Last May CBS launched Innertube, an online video site that would allow the network’s viewers to watch popular television shows like “CSI” and “Survivor” online for free, as well as bonus content and original mini shows. The site, which was ... |
| May 10, 2007 | Internet TV Startup Joost Raises $45m | Joost, the Internet TV startup founded by Skype and Kazaa creators Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, has raised $45 million from a group of five investors that includes CBS and Viacom. The service has been in private beta for months, and re... |
| May 10, 2007 | Joost Raises $45 Million In Funding | Joost has been a viral hit thus far and many investors want in. Given that YouTube’s model gives a lot of power to users, the company is struggling to conform to the takedown demands sent from television networks. For example, Viacom announ... |
| May 9, 2007 | Internet TV company, Joost, raises $45M | Internet TV company Joost has raised $45 million in a whopper round of venture financing, giving it a significant war-chest to spend just as its product hits the market.
Lead investors were Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures. CBS Corporatio... |
| May 9, 2007 | Joost Announces $45 million Funding From Sequoia, Index, CBS & Viacom | Internet TV startup Joost raised $45 million in a venture round of financing, the company will announce this evening. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CBS Corporation, Viacom and Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing.
The compan... |
| May 7, 2007 | Warner Bros. to Offer Programming on Joost | This one nearly slipped under the radar, and given the growing list of Joost Partners I could flippantly say Joost has yet another content partner.
The latest deal for the streaming TV platform sees Warner Bros content including WBTV: SCI-F... |
| May 4, 2007 | Roundup: YouTube pays, Truemors, Techdirt, Kokua, Boo.com and more | Here’s the latest action:
YouTube follows through, almost — YouTube tomorrow (Friday) will start sharing advertising revenue with select video content creators, though not with the masses yet. The move to share revenue with users had been s... |
| May 1, 2007 | Joost Adds Turner Broadcasting Content, Open For All | First, the big news: as of today, existing users of Joost — everyone’s favorite TV thing that no one quite understands but everyone wants — can share invites with their friends. If you know someone who wants Joost, you can now give it to th... |
