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One True Media raises $9 million

by Chris Caceres, January 8, 2009 | Comments

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Video upload service taps DAG and Kleiner to fund video creation technology, SpotMixer

Cutting costs and automating services seem to be a smart trend to follow if you're looking for success, especially in the expensive world of video production. Why edit media when you can simply mix it into generic templates for virtually nothing? To top it off, your videos will look like others, thus seemingly acceptable. Redwood City, Calif.-based One True Media, ...

Avoid politics and trust your instincts

by Chris Caceres, January 8, 2009 | Comments (1)

Steve Vachani, CEO of Power.com, shares insights on how to succeed as a startup

Steve Vachani, founder and CEO of Power.com, is a serial entrepreneur. He's experienced how to maintain a company, particularly in rough times. In this episode of Lessons Learned, he shares some key entrepreneurial wisdom. Lesson 1- Do not start a company with the people sitting next to youVachani explained the first mistake you can make is to start a company ...

Online gaming network scores big

by Chris Caceres, January 7, 2009 | Comments (1)

Play Hard Sports receives $8 million in funding

Play Hard Sports, an online sports network in its beta stage, raised $8 million in funding today, according to this report. Funding was backed by New Enterprise Associates. Founded by Jeff Anderson in 2008, Play Hard’s tagline is simple, “We Love Sports.” Play Hard offers sports news, fantasy leagues, and multiplayer games. Play Hard’s most recent blog update from September ...

Tap into conversational marketing

by Chris Caceres, January 7, 2009 | Comments (2)

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Brian Ascher of Venrock gives advice on what it takes to be a succesful ad network

Brian Ascher, venture capitalist at Venrock was on the board of ad network Adify, which was acquired by Cox Enterprises for $300 million last year. In this interview with Bambi Francisco he talks about what made Adify so unique, and what is needed today to become a successful ad network. BF: What are you looking for from an ad network?BA: ...

Outlook plugin lands funding from Cisco

by Chris Caceres, January 6, 2009 | Comments

Xobni lands $7 million in Series B financing

Xobni, known for its popular Outlook plug-in, has announced its landed $7 million in Series B financing. Existing investors include Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, and Atomico. Cisco Systems is the newest investor on board. As an Outlook plug-in, Xobni allows users automatic enhanced email search capabilities including instant search results as you type. Xobni also provides email analytics ...

Getting video from the web to your phone

by Chris Caceres, January 6, 2009 | Comments

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 $12.5 million in their third round of funding today. Granite Ventures led the round followed by existing investors Hunt Ventures, El Dorado Ventures, Vesbridge Partners, and ATA Ventures.RipCode offers a single piece of ...

Superfish search by sight reeling in cash

by Chris Caceres, January 5, 2009 | Comments (1)

Superfish visual search engine raises $5.3 million in Series B funding

Superfish, a visual search engine startup, raised $5.3 million in Series B funding today, according to a PEHub report. Having nothing to show yet but a simple message and a logo, Superfish explains on their website, “After a couple of years of research, we finally fired-up our visual-search engines; however, we are not ready yet. We expect to launch in ...

Digital price tags save energy and costs

by Chris Caceres, December 9, 2008 | Comments

Altierre leads the way in digital, price-tagging technology

Altierre Digital Retail is out to change the infrastructure of every supermarket. Our local supermarkets are littered with price tags - little pieces of paper, which indicate what’s on sale, or, admittedly, what the price of my dinner is going to be for the night. Actually, I’ve never thought about all the energy and effort that goes into putting up ...

Adidas takes us into the future of clothing

by Chris Caceres, December 8, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Textronics, health monitoring company acquired by sports giant

A healthy workout today goes hand in hand with attaching a monitoring strap to analyze your heart rate, speed, and distance traveled, etc. It's no wonder that Adidas International, one of the largest sporting products companies in the world, is broadening its product line to include such technologies. Adidas on Monday announced it's buying Textronics Inc, a Delaware-based developer of ...

UStream and ThisNext among AO presenters

by Chris Caceres, December 3, 2008 | Comments

Companies showcased their online services and how they can make our digital lives a bit more fun

CEO's showcased their companies at the Consumer & Media Presentations over at the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Silicon Valley this week. From streaming to advertising to building your own social media website, everybody had something interesting to offer. Live video streaming has become a daily practice. From video chatting to broadcasting live events, streaming is now hand in hand ...

Mobile solutions at AlwaysOn Venture Summit

by Chris Caceres, December 3, 2008 | Comments

Pageonce - access to all your accounts in a single mobile application

At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Silicon Valley, mobile solutions are a hot topic. One company, Pageonce, allows for monitoring bank accounts, transferring funds, and making payments on a mobile phone. I caught up with Ahikam Kaufman, Founder and COO of Pageonce, at the event. “Our technology knows how to bring all your personal information, from all the accounts you ...

FanSnap makes ticket searching simple

by Chris Caceres, November 25, 2008 | Comments

Ticket aggregation site lands $5.5 billion in funding

There's Expedia for airline tickets. Now, there's FanSnap for concerts, sports and theater. Apparently, it's a big enough opportunity for General Catalyst Partners. FanSnap, which launched its public beta in October 2008, raised another $5.5 million in funding from General Catalyst Partners, according to a release. With so many options to find and purchase tickets, FanSnap’s value is that it ...

Music recommendation, based on sound

by Chris Caceres, November 20, 2008 | Comments

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A new way to discover ‘similar’ music using mufin

mufin, another online music discovery search engine, went live today. Based out of Germany, mufin takes a unique approach to recommending music.Unlike its competitors, Pandora, Last.fm, and the new iTunes Genius, to name a few, mufin uses a scientific technology, which analyzes music based on the actual sounds in the song. As described on the Mufin site, "In the essence ...

Recession hitting virtual worlds

by Chris Caceres, November 20, 2008 | Comments

Google's Lively closing its virtual doors

Google plans to close the virtual doors of Lively, its short-lived virtual world application, where users could chat and interact with somewhat customized avatars."Despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we've decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year," Google explained. Even though Lively ...

Quality social gaming is getting simpler

by Chris Caceres, November 18, 2008 | Comments

The Casual Collective gets $1 million in funding

Wouldn’t it be great to play quality games within your Web browser and not have to install extra applications to get them running? Sure it would. That's why The Casual Collective is worth taking a look at.The Casual Collective on Tuesday announced that it raised $1 Million in VC funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, the Silicon Valley outfit that's also ...

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