With so many ebook readers hitting retail shelves and web stores these days, it’s no surprise that Amazon is moving Kindle content to other devices. November saw Kindle for PC, and now Amazon says that Kindle for Mac is “coming soon.” I suppose coming… Read More »
Archive for December 2009
What do you do when your DVD business starts to show serious signs of decline? If you’re Paramount, you look for ways to create a new revenue stream from your existing catalog of video content. With that in mind, the movie studio today launched ParamountClips.com,… Read More »
When the House Judiciary Committee hold its hearing, “Piracy of Live Sports Broadcasting Over the Internet,” tomorrow morning, we can be assured of two things: There’s going to be more sports banter than you’d ever want to hear from members of Congress, and Justin.tv… Read More »
Silver Spring Networks, one of the largest smart grid infrastructure firms, has raised another massive round of funding to keep on expanding. This morning the 7-year-old Redwood City, Calif.-based company announced that it has raised $100 million in equity funding, bringing the company’s total funds raised… Read More »
Bandwidth.com isn’t a name most people are familiar with, but it could become one of the leading voice providers over the next few years. Despite bringing in about $85 million in sales this year, Bandwidth.com sees voice as merely a launchpad for even more communications services. Read More »
Talks Resume: After a 5-hour suspension of the talks due to an African delegation walking out on Monday, the talks resumed in the evening. Japan Pledges Aid for Developing Countries Emission Reductions: Japan plans to step forward with aid for the $10 billion per year… Read More »
COPENHAGEN — Copenhagen has witnessed dozens of rallies and protests this week, but none like the geeked-out call to action that will occur on Tuesday afternoon here at the Bella Center as the climate negotiations move into the second week. A group including Google, General… Read More »
Sectionals! Regionals! Will the Glee madness ever stop? Not on Twitter, according to recent stats from Trendrr, where Glee continued to top the charts as the most talked-about show for what feels like the 100th week in a row. It’s so predictable that we… Read More »
Eventbrite, the 3-year-old self-serve online ticketing vendor, has built a nice service (and, by way of disclosure, one we use at the GigaOM Network through a long-term event partnership), with 3 million monthly uniques, 180,000 events organized and $176 million in total ticket sales to… Read More »
It’s now been eight years since I wrote the first post on the blog version of GigaOM. Up until Dec. 13, 2001, GigaOM was nothing more than a repository for my previously published articles and résumé. But with a little help from Ben Trott, co-creator… Read More »
EEStor, the energy storage developer, has no shortage of skeptics. That comes with the territory when making ambitious claims about turning energy storage on its head while revealing little evidence as to how. And while Canadian electric vehicle maker and EEStor backer Zenn has bet… Read More »
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