Betaworks, a New York City-based Internet company, has raised $20 million in new venture funding in a round led by Intel Capital and RRE Ventures. Softbank, Founders Collective, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures and the New York Times are new investors in the company. Read more »
Though we talked to Brightcove at the end of last week regarding their partnership platform announced today, we missed the fact that they made layoffs on Wednesday. That’s mostly our bad, since the layoffs — 25 out of 172 employees across multiple departments — were reported […] Read more »
[qi:066] Instead of trying to finish up nearly half a dozen unfinished posts, I ended up spending my entire weekend curled up with Ian Ayers’ Super Crunchers, a book that talks about how analyzing numbers can open doors to incredible insights. When you look at our […] Read more »
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Monitoring the Internet for people discussing your product or brand can be invaluable to help understand how the public views you. Tools like Google Alerts or Filtrbox can handle news, blogs and web pages while Summize keeps tabs on Twitter. For forums and message boards there […] Read more »
So it’s confirmed: Twitter is buying Summize. As I’ve said previously, I think this is a super-smart move by Twitter, and if the company plays its cards right, one that will pay dividends in the long run. Here are some additional financial details of the deal. Continue Reading Read more »
These days, we are all swimming in a sea of data. And the traditional method of search — the one that involves first finding, then consuming the information — isn’t going to work for much longer. The company that can figure out a way to cut through the noise for us stands to make a boatload of money. Read more »
The big buzz of the evening is that Twitter, a San Francisco-based startup that allows anyone to post short (up to 140 characters) messages to its platform and thus broadcast them to one or many using different media such as web and mobile, is about to […] Read more »
Twitter, our favorite tool for narcissism and the eponymously named San Francisco company behind the service may not have a business model, but it surely has the buzz. Whether it is their new round of funding or their inability to keep the service running — the […] Read more »
So Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. If accepted, it would certainly shake up the tech world. But what would it mean for online video? It’s on Steve Ballmer’s mind. In his letter to Yahoo he mentioned video specifically: Emerging user experiences: Our […] Read more »
Steve offers up an under six-minute hands-on look at the HTC Shift and now I can see why he’s adament about having a keyboard on a UMPC. He HAS to be the fastest two-thumb typist I’ve ever seen! While that’s definitely a valuable skill, I don’t […] Read more »
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Sure there is a lot of focus on television, and other gizmos, but the big story at CES 2005 is voice-over-IP and the video-over-IP. Everyone who is anyone from the VoIP world is in Las Vegas. Andy is blogging from there, and so is Jeff Pulver. […] Read more »
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