Archive for October, 2006

WiFi location startup Skyhook Wireless, which has the marketing-friendly browser plug-in Loki, has been making some pretty good progress since we last spoke to them in June. The Boston-based startup, which has raised $8.5 million from Bain Capital Ventures and Intel Capital among others, says it… Read More »

After many delays, Swiss phone incumbent, Swisscom finally launched a rudimentary form of their Microsoft-based IPTV system. Bluewin TV, as it is called is promises 100-plus TV channels, 70 radio channels, and a whole slew of services. Of course if you are using the service over… Read More »

B2Beta Live Now

(Disclosure: I still write a column for Business 2.0 magazine.) My former colleagues from Business 2.0 are blogging. Hey guys, welcome to the world of instant analysis, instant reporting. It is fun, and addictive. Erick knows it all too well. They will all bring new, interesting and… Read More »

Comcast launched Fearnet, a broadband only on-demand movie channel dedicated to scary movies. GUBA is handling the movie download service for the channel, which is going to be one of the many Comcast has planned. Sony and Lionsgate are partners for this venture. Users can… Read More »

Compete.com, a six-year-old analytics firm, is formally debuting its public data tool tonight. Searchers can input any site on the web to get numbers and trend graphs for total U.S. visitors (absolute, not relative), rank among all sites, pages viewed per visit, and average length of… Read More »

Jangl hooked up with Match.com, it seems. The dating site announced that it has launched an anonymous voice chat service called matchTalk. Valleywag had posted about this possible pairing a little while ago. Read More »

Who says video-sharing sites can’t go public? GoFish (which has reshaped itself as destination instead of a search engine these days) said today it had taken sold $12 million worth of stock as part of a reverse takeover by the publicly traded Unibio. Look for it… Read More »

Amp’d Goes to Japan

The well-funded MVNO Amp’d Mobile says it will make some mobile entertainment content available to Japanese carrier KDDI’s subscribers. Japanese cell phone users like mobile data and Amp’d needs customers — last time we checked it had 50,000 subscribers but expects 100,000 by the end of… Read More »

In Other NEooWS

Pluck’s RSS reader has died, but NEooWS, which promises community discussion around feeds, is the latest to go after this commoditized market. Let us know if you check it out. Read More »

Vonage, Shaken & Stirred, Again

There seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel for Vonage investors. The company reported its third quarter 2006 earnings, and things don’t look pretty. Here is a laundry list of bad news: Net new subscribers were 205,000, down from 256,000 in the second… Read More »

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