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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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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For most of HTC’s existence, it was a little-known cellphone manufacturer making more Windows Mobile phones than anyone else in the world. Now the Taiwanese company has ambitions to create its own brand and be recognized...
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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.
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.
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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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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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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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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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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