Archive for August, 2007

Update: Dane Jasper of Sonic.Net left a comment saying that this is their own initiative and the equipment is coming from Meraki. We’re doing this independently, using equipment from Meraki. Meraki and Google have an ad partnership, and any revenues that flow from that will be split… Read More »

Memo to private equity investors: Get your checkbooks ready, for VeriSign (VRSN) might have some businesses to put on the block. VeriSign, the Mountain View, Calif.-based domain name registry manager, is in the middle of a major restructuring under the aegis of its new chief executive, William… Read More »

The new episode of The GigaOM Show is up. In addition to our hitlines, we talk with executives from web analytics companies, Quantcast and Hitwise, and try to understand the complexities of web analytics and why it is hard to get a handle on who is… Read More »

In what has to be the worst PR moves of all time, General Atlantic, a New York-based hedge fund, announced that it was backing a new buyout fund started by Jon Miller, former CEO of AOL and Ross Levinsohn, former President of Fox Interactive. No details… Read More »

GigaNET Headlines…Friday

Earth2Tech: Ways to reduce your green guilt as you travel this Labor Day Weekend. NewTeeVee: The best of the video picks form Burning Man — for those that couldn’t make to the playa this year. Found/Read: Seven hiring tips for startups. Web Worker Daily: How to do away with… Read More »

There is a game of corporate chicken going on. Hours after NBC decided that it was going to pull its shows from the iTunes store at the end of this year, Apple (AAPL) trumped them and will not sell shows from the upcoming TV season on… Read More »

While Google’s (GOOG) YouTube continues to gain market share and increase its lead in the Web video market, funding to its competitors continues to flow unabated. Yesterday, Dailymotion raised $34 million, following on the heels of Veoh ($26 million) and MetaCafe ($30 million.) These three companies alone have… Read More »

Joost Becomes Widget Platform

Joost just released version 0.12.0 of its P2P TV client this week. The new releases offers end users a bunch of bug fixes, but developers get a special treat: Joost has opened up its API and now makes it possible to develop third-party widgets that… Read More »

Hire IQ: 7 hiring tips for startups

Editor’s Note: Trevor is the editor of “Red Canary”:http://www.redcanary.ca/, a great online magazine/community just like Found|READ, but which is focused on “fast-growth Canadian companies,” rather than startups. Trevor’s July 2006 Red Canary post on “hiring tips for startups” is obviously very relevant to Found|READers, and… Read More »

Roxio Launches Popcorn 3 for Mac

Roxio released Popcorn 3 for Macintosh yesterday, which promises to shorten video conversion and DVD burn times as well as adding TiVo-to-DVD or TiVo-to-device support. New and enhanced features include automatic TiVoToGo, which starts encoding TV shows as soon as they are transferred to your shiny Mac;… Read More »

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