Joost, a much-vaunted online video startup, has announced that it will offer a white-label video hosting platform, thus entering a crowded market littered with the carcasses of other failed video hosts. As someone who has followed Joost from its very inception, I’m amazed at how badly… Read More »
Archive for June, 2009
Update: LogMeIn is trading at $20.13 a share in its first hour of trading. LogMeIn, a Woburn, Mass.-based company that is going public, has priced at $16 a share, according to The Wall Street Journal. LogMeIn will start trading tomorrow under the ticker “LOGM.” With 6.7 million… Read More »
When Heyzap, the San Francisco-based startup that offers up casual, Flash-based games for publishers to embed to their sites, launched back in January, revenue was being generated by the short ads shown before its games. But as the economic downturn tightened its grip and the… Read More »
They say it takes money to make money, but it you want to be in the top 100 apps in the Apple App Store, it’s gonna take you $1,875 per day to buy enough ads, according to a report out today from AdWhirl. The company, which… Read More »
Cisco today outlined its plans for delivering IT services over the web (aka cloud services), and as part of a conference call, showed off a great slide that illustrates exactly how many companies this former networking gear maker wants to take on. If I were to… Read More »
5 ways to catch the Tour de France away from the TV (jkOnTheRun) BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay is being acquired (NewTeeVee) Google inks first European utility partnership for PowerMeter (Earth2Tech) Are you playing “Hot Potato” with your iPhone 3GS? (TheAppleBlog) Acquia Search now out of beta (OStatic) Embracing information overload (WebWorkerDaily)
Mozilla has just released the final version of Firefox 3.5. The JavaScript performance — critical for many web apps — is massively improved thanks to the new TraceMonkey engine, making 3.5 feel very fast indeed. In addition to improved performance and standards compliance, Firefox 3.5 features new… Read More »
