U.S.-based web 2.0 companies have raised $455.5 million in 79 deals so far this year, according to Dow Jones VentureOne figures posted today (can’t find the press release online yet). That’s out of $1.63 billion total invested in 198 consumer technology companies so far this… Read More »
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Just today at Widgets Live, attendees were complaining about the proprietary nature of Flash. Well, Adobe is announcing it is taking some steps to rectify that, opening up source code for its ActionScript Virtual Machine and putting it in care of the Mozilla Foundation for… Read More »
Mark Jung, who came to Fox Interactive via its IGN acquisition has left the company for pastures unknown. Ross Levinsohn has assumed the COO duties for now. Fox had acquired IGN for $650 million (and change) last September. Rafat Ali says that there have… Read More »
Web Worker Daily takes a first look at Scrybe, the much talked about planner/calendar application. Read More »
Pixsy, a startup that licenses its photo and video search tools to other websites in exchange for revenue sharing, has been saying for a while it will launch a customizable search widget for bloggers and MySpace pages. Below the jump, Pixsy CEO Chase Norlin gives… Read More »
VentureBeat has started a job board for Valley jobs paying $100,000 and up. TheLadders has had a lot of success with this demographic. Yes, everybody has a job board these days, but the newcomer has more than 100 listings already. Read More »
Facebook is infiltrating sites across the web, decorating everyone from the Washington Post to the Onion to IMDB with its new little “f” logo. The social networking site over the last week has been introducing features allowing members to collect content from all over the… Read More »
The DSL ecosystem might be in for a rocky ride, at least in the near term. A few days ago we had pointed out the slowdown at AT&T and BellSouth when it came to net new adds. Embarq did not meet analyst expectations, and many… Read More »
Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #24 here (WMV format, 640 x 480, 227 MB, 40:44 minutes) UPDATE: For our QVGA little-friends, we have a 320 x 240 version video as well. 106 MB; great taste AND less filling! Just click the link above. Yes, I’ve been… Read More »
Mobile ESPN will officially shut its doors later this year the company said in a release, and Rafat & Staci mentioned last night. The company says December 31 is the end of the road for existing customers and sales of ESPN… Read More »
Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #23 here (WMV format, 640 x 480, 60.6 MB, 11:02 minutes) With the new Apple announcements today, it became apparent to me that the new iTunes Movies would be a nice marriage of Microsoft Windows based hardware and Apple… Read More »
Somedays when he is not being a Cranky Geek, John Dvorak comes up with good stuff. Today he points to HolerSoft, a French company that has come-up with a Windows-only application that allows you to watch 1200 channels from around the world on… Read More »
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