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March Madness streams see mad traffic

by Chris Caceres, March 19, 2010 | Comments

3.4 million hours of live video streams consumed on Thursday alone

March Madness has been all the craze these days among my sports-fanatic friends. Personally, I follow the NBA and don't really have time for anything else besides football. But there's something the NCAA and CBS Sports have been doing to make it a little more interesting, at least on my end - they've been streaming the entire tournament since it ...

Google launches Buzz widget for Android

by Chris Caceres, March 19, 2010 | Comments

Widget aims to give people an easier way to update while on the go

Google announced this week it launched a Buzz widget for Android phones. In case you haven't tried Buzz out yet, it's pretty much Google's version of a social network. It's a stream for sharing content with your contacts that integrates directly into Gmail. And of course, with any social networking service comes the need for a mobile counterpart, especially if ...

YouTube: 24 hrs/min of video uploaded daily

by Chris Caceres, March 17, 2010 | Comments

Online video giant seeing massive amounts of content uploaded to site every minute of the day

YouTube is now seeing a massive 24 hours of video uploaded to its site for every minute that passes in our daily lives. The company announced this amazing statistic in a blog post on Wednesday. A little less than a year ago, people were uploading about 20 hours of video per minute, according to the online video provider. Commenting on ...

Facebook expanding its instant search results

by Chris Caceres, March 17, 2010 | Comments

New instant feature taps into your social network of friends for more relevant results

Facebook, announced this week it would be rolling out a new feature to its instant search results. The feature taps into a users network of friends to attempt deliver more relevant search results. The social networking giant showed off an example on its blog using the search "MGM." Facebook engineer, Wayne explained,"if you start typing in "MGM" to find the ...

BrightEdge lands $6.5 million

by Chris Caceres, March 16, 2010 | Comments

Battery Ventures, Altos Ventures and Illuminate Ventures invest in SEO management platform

BrightEdge, a startup offering a search engine optimization platform, announced on Tuesday it raised $6.5 million in funding. Battery Ventures led the round, with existing investors Altos Ventures and Illuminate Ventures also particpating. The San Mateo, California-based startup aims to help Websites improve their ranking on search engines, like Google or Yahoo for example. BrightEdge offers its product as an ...

Facebook ranks as most visited site in US

by Chris Caceres, March 15, 2010 | Comments (1)

Google, step aside. Social networking giant lands #1 spot last week, says Hitwise

Facebook has surpassed Google as the most visited Website in the US, according to a report published on Monday by analytics company Hitwise. The firm said that for the week ending March 13, 2010, Facebook became the most visited site in the US. Last week the two Internet giants accounted for 14% of all US Internet visits. Facebook barely surpassed ...

Fandango launches mobile tickets

by Chris Caceres, March 15, 2010 | Comments

Technology lets movie goers download tickets to their smartphones instead of printing them

Fandango has taken another leap forward in the movie-ticketing market. On Monday it launched a new feature it's coined, the 'mobile ticket' program, which enables users to download a scannable barcode on their cell phones. Fandango has always been a pretty useful service. The company has been enabling its users to purchase and print movie tickets online which is a ...

Anatomy of a social gamer

by Chris Caceres, March 12, 2010 | Comments

GDC 10: A student, two unemployed, and a BART operator share their social gaming habits

I witnessed an interesting panel at GDC in San Francisco this week, in which four social gaming enthusiasts sat on stage and shared what it is exactly that keeps them hooked on one of those social games, like Farmville, Mobsters, or Sorority Life we've all become familiar with.An overview of the gamers - Two of them were unemployed, one was ...

Online video use continues to rise in U.S.

by Chris Caceres, March 12, 2010 | Comments (1)

	CNN, MSN and AOL seeing largest month-over-month gains, says Nielsen Now a days, it feels like almost any major event aired on television will either be streamed online or clips will end up showing up all over YouTube. That's why if I miss an episode of say, my favorite show, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," I know it will end up somewhere on the Web for me to watch. And ...
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BART goes augmented reality

by Chris Caceres, March 11, 2010 | Comments

	Junaio and BART partner up to bring AR layer to your iPhone If you're living in the San Francisco Bay Area, own an iPhone 3GS, and are a BART commuter, you're in for a pretty neat update. BART and iPhone developer Junaio, have teamed up to bring an augmented reality layer to the Bay Area's rapid transit system. How's it work? Well if you're familiar with the concept of augmented reality on ...
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LivingSocial raises $25 million

by Chris Caceres, March 11, 2010 | Comments

U.S. Venture Partners and Grotech Ventures pouring cash into online group buying startup

LivingSocial, a startup offering daily retail discounts, announced on Thursday it raised $25 million in Series B funding. U.S. Venture Partners led the round with Grotech Ventures and Revolution, LLC participating. With this round, the company has raised $30 million in total VC funding. The company is in an emerging sector, in which sites offer daily deals for a particular ...

GDC 10: The next generation of social gaming

by Chris Caceres, March 10, 2010 | Comments

What's going to make the next generation of social games truly successful?

Social games have exploded in recent months. Companies like Zynga are rapidly growing because of the success of games like FarmVille. But where is the industry headed and what does it take to build a successful game? Some of these questions were brought up at the next generation of social games panel over at the GamesBeat conference from GDC in ...

OnLive to go live June 17

by Chris Caceres, March 10, 2010 | Comments

More details on how the startup plans to price the service, features and limitations

Palo Alto-based startup, OnLive, announced it would be going live on June 17th. Steve Perlman, CEO of OnLive made the announcement at the GDC GamesBeat Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday morning. We've been keeping an eye on OnLive for a while now due to its potential to seriously disrupt the traditional console gaming industry. Up until now, in order ...

Todacell scores $1 million

by Chris Caceres, March 9, 2010 | Comments

	More money for mobile ad networks Mobile ad network Todacell, announced on Tuesday it's raised an additional $1 million round of funding from existing investor AfterDox. The extra $1 million will be added to another $1 million round the company raised in June of 2009 from AfterDox. The start also raised $350,000 in seed funding from the Fore Group. The funding comes at an interesting time ...
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Stylesight raises $10 million

by Chris Caceres, March 5, 2010 | Comments

Cue Ball Capital and Volition Capital invest in fashion forecasting site

Stylesight, an online destination which provides trend forecasting and product development tools for the fashion industry, announced it's closed a $10 million equity investment from Cue Ball Capital and return backer Volition Capital. The startup previously raised $16 million back in 2008.Founded back in 2003, the New York-based startup offers a closed Website for folks working in the fashion industry ...

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