mywaves

http://www.mywaves.com/

Last activity: 07.07.2008

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mywaves is the largest free mobile video destination for consumers, attracting over 5 million unique visitors monthly to its free mobile video service. Consumers can browse through more than 300,000 channels of professionally programmed videos and have their favorites automatically updated and delivered to their phones. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., mywaves is led by a team from Yahoo!, Napster, Danger, Palm and TiVo. The company is funded by venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.

Mentions

Overview

Location

United States, California, Sunnyvale

Employees

11-50

Founded date

2005

Mentions in press and media 18

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Apr 18, 2008	Roundup: AMD falls, Sequoia expands, and more	Here’s the latest action: Advanced Micro Devices is in a world of hurt — The Sunnyvale, Calif. chip company lost $358 million on revenues of $1.5 billion in the quarter. It cited a tough outlook for the computer market, but it is clearly hu...
Mar 31, 2008	vTap Wants to Be Your Personal Online Video Curator	It can be hard to find good video content on the web, especially when you’re on a mobile phone. vTap wants to make things easier for you. The service, which launched last fall, aggregates video from across the web – from over 50,000 sites l...
Feb 11, 2008	Mobile video site Mywaves growing fast, despite competition	Leading video-sharing web site YouTube may have just launched a new mobile web version of its site, but startup mobile video site Mywaves doesn’t seem to care, because its growing fast around the world. Mywaves launched towards the end of 2...
Dec 17, 2007	Juice Wireless, offering mobile content sharing, gets more funding	Juice Wireless, a company that lets you send photos, videos and other content to your social network pages from your mobile phone, has been on a rocky ride. Not only does it face plenty of competition, but it changed tack a year ago and lai...
Sep 19, 2007	PlugandPlay40: More startups on display	Plug and Play Tech Center, a startup incubator based in Sunnyvale, will be hosting an exposition tomorrow afternoon. Forty companies will be presenting, most with no significant venture backing. Below is a summary. The Center itself offers ...
Jul 29, 2007	Buzzwire streams mobile media, no downloads attached	Buzzwire lets you stream video, audio, and live internet radio to your mobile phone — something other companies do. But Buzzwire does this without requiring a download — setting it apart from the crowd. The company, which has been in stealt...
Jul 26, 2007	Alltel Adds 'mywaves' Mobile Video Service	Alltel Wireless, which is now known to follow its name with the phrase "America’s largest network," announced yesterday the ability to access mywaves mobile video service on several of its phones (take that, YouTube!) and damn it ...
Jul 23, 2007	Transpera, latest mobile video channel company	Transpera, a Santa Monica, Calif. company that lets users create their own mobile video channels for sharing with friends, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding Intel Capital, IDG Ventures and First Round Capital, There are several ot...
May 2, 2007	Embed This Video Player From mywaves….NOW!	Sorry to get so shouty first thing in the morning, but the coffee’s kicking in. So awhile back we mentioned a video service called mywaves that’s basically a large library of video clips scaled down to view on mobile devices. Today, it’s ad...
Feb 15, 2007	SKEE.TV Streams Urban Lifestyle To Your Mobile	We’ve mentioned mobile video service, a couple times before, but just in case you haven’t checked it out yet, here’s one more reason to: SKEE.TV. DJ SKEE is a West Coast-based DJ with a popular radio show on Sirius Satellite radio. SKEE.TV ...
Feb 6, 2007	Mywaves reports strong growth, unveils mobile video search	Updated Mywaves, the Sunnyvale start-up that lets people view video clips on their mobile phone, is offering a new way to search for videos. Essentially, it is video equivalent of Google news alerts. You can select a term or a phrase, such ...
Jan 31, 2007	Mobio Mobile Lifestyle Portal: Useful Web Services On Your Cell	Cingular’s 3G network allows me to do much more with my mobile handset, such as take advantage of services like JuiceCaster and MyWaves. Mobio Networks now joins that group with its GetMobio product. GetMobio is a free service you can downl...
Dec 18, 2006	Mywaves offers lots of mobile video, and is growing	Mywaves, a Sunnyvale start-up that delivers video to your mobile phone, launched in September, but we didn’t give it much coverage. Mywaves has since grown quickly, however, and now is boasting one of the largest mobile video services. Larg...
Dec 11, 2006	Mywaves, consumer mobile video co., raises $6M	See our story from last week. VentureBeat VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital townsquare for technical decision makers to gain knowledge about transformative technology and transact. Our site delivers essential information on data...
Dec 8, 2006	Pitch your business plan to VCs via mobile phone — on MyWaves	MyWaves, a Sunnyvale start-up that lets you shoot video with your mobile and email it to an online account where others can see it, has raised $6 million from Menlo Ventures. VentureBeat may write more about this company next week, but for ...
Oct 27, 2006	YouTube’s dancing Jawed, iLike’s music service, Veeker’s mobile splash	End-of-week roundup in Silicon Valley: The YouTube jig, and lecture — Here’s a link to a lecture that Jawed Karim, the co-founder of video-sharing site YouTube gave this week. It is a history how YouTube got to where it did. GigaOm has a go...
Sep 5, 2006	The thief’s Chihuahua, loopt, Snocap & more	Here’s a roundup of relevant Silicon Valley action, after the long weekend: Yahoo employee sets up Flickr on his phone, and “captures” thief — Yahoo Web designer Ben Clemens, of Berkeley, said his phone was stolen, but that a program he’d i...

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FAQ about mywaves

When was mywaves founded?

mywaves was founded in 2005.

What has the press written about mywaves?

Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning mywaves, among them “Roundup: AMD falls, Sequoia expands, and more” (Apr 18, 2008) and “vTap Wants to Be Your Personal Online Video Curator” (Mar 31, 2008).

Is mywaves still active?

Yes, mywaves is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 7, 2008.