Posts tagged "Smallbiz Feature"
The online video shakeout is happening, though not as quickly as you might have thought two years ago: Instead of going away overnight, video sites that aren't YouTube or Hulu are quietly circling each other. Everyone talks to everyone about a potential deal, but few of them actually get consummated. Here's one that did.
The mobile ad market is still more theoretical than anything else. But it's got to show up one day, right?
Can't raise money for your start-up? Maybe you're doing something wrong. Here's a gaggle of prominent VCs and angels begging to fund you.
Former Forbes.com publisher Jim Spanfeller has a new gig: A venture-backed Web publishing start-up.Spanfeller Media Group, which plans to launch a series of new sites, is close to finishing a funding round that I'm told will total around $2 million. Backers include RRE Ventures, Greenhill SAVP, SoftBank and Lerer Media Ventures.
What if you could move your music collection to the cloud so that you could listen to it anywhere, on whatever device you wanted, whenever you wanted?You may be able to get that via Google and Apple one day, and both companies have talked about the idea with the music industry. But in the meantime,...
Online market research company uSamp picks up DMS Insights for a Bebo-like price.
Brian Grey used to run big sports sites for really big portals, first at Yahoo, then at Fox Sports. Now he's going to do the same thing at a start-up: He's leaving an entrepreneur-in-residence perch at Polaris Venture Partners to run Bleacher Report, a San Francisco-based sports network.
More lucrative than Farmville? Last year, the game company coaxed $180 million out of Russian investor DST. Now it's set to get another $147 million out of Japan's SoftBank.
Stickybits is the kind of thing that might make more sense if you're not entirely sober: It's a funky, practical-joke-from-the-future concept that involves stickers, scannable bar codes and geo-tagging. It might also be a business.
Average concertgoers go to two shows a year, and there's a very good chance some of the money they spend on those shows goes to Ticketmaster, which dominates the ticketing business. So here's a company that wants a piece of that: TicketFly, a New York-based start-up that wants to--gasp!--use the Web to update the archaic...
Google, which is still trying to figure out how to crack the TV business, has invested in a tech firm trying to do the same thing.The search giant is leading a $23 million series D round in Invidi Technologies, which works on "addressable" TV ads.
Tumblr's David Karp, seen carpet surfing on the cover of New York Magazine this week, says his hipster blog service is ready to become a real business. Karp's VC backers seem to believe him.
