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Disney’s Steamboat, Others Put $7.5 Million In Elemental Technologies

July 26, 2010
By Joseph Tartakoff
Disney’s Steamboat, Others Put $7.5 Million In Elemental Technologies

Elemental Technologies, a Portland, OR.-based startup that sells video processing systems used by content companies, has raised $7.5 million in a new funding round. The funding comes from Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) venture arm Steamboat Ventures, along with existing backers General Catalyst Partners and Voyager Capital.

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Sling Co-founder Jason Krikorian Joins DCM

July 25, 2010
By David Kaplan
Sling Co-founder Jason Krikorian Joins DCM

Jason Krikorian, co-founder of video technology company Sling Media, has joined venture capital firm DCM as a general partner. In January ‘09, Krikorian, along with his brother and Sling Media co-founder Blake, left the company less than a year after it was bought by EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) as...
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MySpace To Acquire Social Chat Service Threadbox’s Assets

July 15, 2010
By David Kaplan
MySpace To Acquire Social Chat Service Threadbox’s Assets

MySpace is finalizing a deal with social messaging platform Threadbox that involves transferring the service’s staff and assets to the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). unit, Venturebeat reported.


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NPD: iTunes Users Have A ‘Strong Interest’ In Paid Subscription Services

July 14, 2010
By David Kaplan
NPD: iTunes Users Have A ‘Strong Interest’ In Paid Subscription Services

But how much are they willing to pay to access music from iTunes via the cloud? A survey by marketing researcher NPD Group estimates that a base subscription rate of $10 a month would attract 13- to 15 million customers out of roughly 50 million iTunes users.


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NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity Backs In-Game Voice Service Vivox

July 13, 2010
By Joseph Tartakoff
NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity Backs In-Game Voice Service Vivox

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and GE Capital joint venture Peacock Equity is the latest investor to back Vivox, which powers voice chat in online worlds including Linden Lab’s Second Life and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Online Entertainment’s Everquest. Peacock Equity is putting $2 million into the company and hints...
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Skype And Fring Fight Over Interconnectivity

July 12, 2010
By Joseph Tartakoff
Skype And Fring Fight Over Interconnectivity

Fring is no longer providing support for Skype, a week after the mobile app expanded its features to include two-way video calling for the iPhone. Fring previously had allowed its users to make calls and IMs across Skype, in addition to others like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Talk and ICQ.

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Microsoft Says Its Tablets Are Coming

July 12, 2010
By Joseph Tartakoff
Microsoft Says Its Tablets Are Coming

It hasn’t been the best year for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in the tablet market, by any measure ... There’s been the cancellation of the company’s hotly anticipated Courier tablet, suggestions by HP (NYSE: HPQ) that it will use webOS and not Windows as the operating system in some...
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One Week Of Hulu Plus: Glee-Full But Not Giddy

July 9, 2010
By Staci D. Kramer
One Week Of Hulu Plus: Glee-Full But Not Giddy

Is Hulu Plus worth $10 a month? It all depends on the programming you like to watch, how much of it you want to access and how often. I’ve been using the long-anticipated subscription service from the joint venture of Disney (NYSE: DIS), News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) and NBC Universal...
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Android Gains Marketshare While All Others Lose It

July 8, 2010
By Tricia Duryee
Android Gains Marketshare While All Others Lose It

All of the major smartphone platforms lost share to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android in a recent three-month period, even though they all gained subscribers due to the market’s overall growth.


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