| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Mar 1, 2009 | MeeVee A Ghost Town, All Employees "Inactive." LiveUniverse CEO Greenspan Still Nuts. | (The picture makes sense once you read to the end). A former MeeVee employee emails in to say that he hasn’t received his 2008 tax forms from the company, and that no one will pick up the phone to say when he might receive them. We emailed ... |
| Feb 2, 2009 | Was Anyone Still In Doubt Over LiveUniverse's Demise? | There’s currently a thread on Techmeme based on this blog post from Pingdom about the downtime of most of LiveUniverse’s services for the past couple of days. We’ve been getting tips about this since last Thursday, and tried contacting foun... |
| May 7, 2008 | MeeVee Finds A Home, Acquired By Live Universe | Brad Greenspan’s Live Universe continues its acquisitions spree: they’ve bought troubled Silicon Valley startup MeeVee, we’re heard from multiple sources. This comes less than a month after they announced the acquisition of Pageflakes, anot... |
| Apr 13, 2008 | BuddyTV Raises $6 Million From Madrona Venture Group | BuddyTV, home to one of the web’s largest television-oriented communities, has raised $6 million in Series B funding from Madrona Venture Group. This round brings BuddyTV’s total funding to over $9 million.
BuddyTV aims to provide a compreh... |
| Apr 8, 2008 | Roundup: Websites become more vulnerable to lawsuits, Meevee looks for buyers, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Rulings could make website owners more vulnerable to lawsuits — Decisions made by judges in two separate cases, against Friendfinder.com and Roommates.com, could expose websites to potentially harmful lawsuits, acc... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | $25 Million Later, MeeVee In Trouble | TV listings discovery service MeeVee has put itself on the market via press release.
The Burlingame based company has taken $25 million in funding over four rounds that included DEFTA Partners, Edmond de Rothschild Venture Capital, FCPR Isr... |
| Jan 19, 2008 | Thanks for celebrating the Crunchies with us | Thanks to everyone who came to the Crunchies last night to recognize the best startups — which won awards from “most likely to make the world a better place,” to “best tech innovation” and best “clean tech.”
Pictured here is Mark Zuckerberg... |
| Jan 19, 2008 | Crunchies Wrap Up – A Big Thank You To The Community | Thank you to everyone who attended the first Crunchies event last night to honor startups in categories ranging from “best business model” to “best time sink” (pictured right is Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic/Wordpress, showing off his a... |
| Jan 18, 2008 | 2007 Crunchies: Live From Herbst Theatre | The Crunchies Awards kick off at 7:30 pm PST at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. The event is over sold at this point, but if you want to attend virtually, you can. Event sponsor Mogulus is live streaming it. It’s should be live from ar... |
| Jan 18, 2008 | The Crunchies Awards, now streaming live | The Crunchies Awards are starting at 7:30 pm Pacific time tonight at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.
Event sponsor Mogulus is live streaming it (watch it, below). Big thanks to our sponsors:
Award Benefactors: Adobe, Charles River Vent... |
| Jan 17, 2008 | The Crunchies Award: An explanation | Here’s a look at the award (see left) that will be given to each category winner for the Crunchies tomorrow evening in San Francisco.
Before you start scratching your head (or armpit), here’s the background. The 1968 movie 2001: A Space Ody... |
| Jan 16, 2008 | Crunchies: Here's The Winners' Award | Last night we gave an overview of our thought process for coming up with the award that will be given to each category winner for the Crunchies event on Friday night in San Francisco.
The award itself, created by Clockwork Apple, is 14 inch... |
| Oct 16, 2007 | MeeVee, online TV Guide, buys Top 10 Sources | MeeVee a start-up that styles itself as a TV Guide for the web, has bought another start-up — Top 10 Sources — in an effort to revamp its own website.
The Burlingame, Calif, company’s vision — to help people manage their online and off-line... |
| Sep 20, 2007 | MeeVee Takes $3.5 Million Series D | TV listings discovery service MeeVee has taken $3.5 Million Series D in a round that included original backers Bay Area Equity Fund, Defta Partners, FCPR Israel Discovery Fund, Labrador Ventures, Rothschild Ventures and WaldenVC.
The invest... |
| Sep 20, 2007 | Meevee, for online video search and sharing, raises $3.5 million | Meevee, a company that lets you search for, track and save videos from around the web, has raised another $3.5 million, according to a PEhub filing.
Our previous coverage here and here.
The Series D round was comprised of returning investor... |
| Apr 27, 2007 | Roundup: Scribd hype, Stockpickr, Red Herring, Cozmo and lots more | Scribd hype — Maybe because it calls itself the “YouTube for documents,” the young Scribd is getting a lot of interest from Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists. We’ve talked to some eager to invest. Rumors are leaking out, including at Gig... |
| Mar 20, 2007 | Channels.com, another guide to Web video | Everyone wants a piece of the El Dorado of video, and the latest Silicon Valley start-up effort is Channels.com.
Channels.com, of Palo Alto, Calif., aims to be your guide for video on the Web, a place akin to YouTube — but where you can go ... |
| Feb 15, 2007 | MeeVee Integrates Online Video With TV Listings | In a substantial upgrade this morning, the TV listing discovery service MeeVee has integrated a number of online media types along with its broadcast TV listings, including viral videos. It’s a good move that will make the company all the m... |
| Feb 7, 2007 | MeeVee now gives you guide for “every” video | MeeVee’s online guide to TV and cable programming has just gotten better. It lets you track videos from around the Web — and then put them into your personalized Web-based account for easy viewing.
It’s one more step toward MeeVee’s goal of... |
| Oct 17, 2006 | Roundup: SpotDJ for iTunes, reporter embedded in Second Life & more | SpotDJ, an angel-backed start-up in San Francisco, yesterday launched a service that lets people insert “spots” within iTunes music, which can be listened to by other SpotDJ users. The short spots can be descriptions of the song’s artist, a... |
| Oct 10, 2006 | Roundup: The valley’s lure, Sequoia out of Google, Office 2.0, Lala & more | YouTube will contribute to valley’s allure — Two years ago, Google’s buzz, even before its IPO, gave entrepreneurs like Tribe’s founder Mark Pincus inspiration to dream up the social networking revolution. YouTube’s grand sale will also ins... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | MeeVee Overhauls Site. I Want More. | MeeVee, an online TV listings and search provider, recently covered here, launched a redesigned site today with several new features. The new version combines the TV listings grid and watch list functionality into a single user interface al... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | MeeVee beefs up TV/IPTV search, saying there’s too much clutter | With the proliferation of Internet television and other places for video, MeeVee, a Burlingame start-up, says it wants to use its “neutral” player status to sort through the clutter, and today releases new features to help.
MeeVee has compe... |
| Aug 14, 2006 | MeeVee wants to be your TV Guide: Raises $8 million more | MeeVee, a Silicon Valley company (Burlingame) that lets you search for TV programs and other video programming online, and then lets you organize it in a personal planner, has raised $8 million in a third round of funding.
The company has n... |
| Aug 10, 2006 | Online TV Gets Big Money: Meevee Raises $8 Million | Silicon Valley based Meevee has raised an additional round of financing of at least $8 million, a source close to the company told us today. The lead investor is the JP Morgan affiliated fund, Bay Area Equity Fund. No word on valuation or i... |
| Jul 30, 2006 | Overview: The End of Paper TV Guides | A few years ago, online TV guides were just a paperless version of what was arriving in the mail or the middle of Sunday papers. Today, however, as we get closer to the world of TV over IP and video on demand in every home, the space is evo... |
| Jul 9, 2006 | Whither Television Programming? | As a follow up to our previous post on TV network activity on the Internet and through iTunes, we’ve further explored television programming and how it’s playing out on the web beyond the major networks.
I will steer clear of yahoo, google,... |
| May 22, 2006 | Download Your TV – The Current Options | Downloadable television, first made popular by Tivo and its competitors, is compelling stuff. As consumers become accustomed to watching a show whenever they choose, pausing at will and fast tracking through commercials, tuning in to a stat... |
| Feb 27, 2006 | MeeVee’s TV search and planner — raises $6.5M | Burlingame start-up MeeVee lets you search for TV programs and other video programming, and then gives you a way to set up your own personalized page, based on a planner, so you know when the programs you want to watch are coming up. It let... |