Remember Airtime? The Sean Parker-led startup finally shut down its web app during the last few weeks, and no one seems to have noticed.…
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Sean Parker’s AirTime relaunched as OkHello, and nobody noticed
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/24/sean-parkers-airtime-okhello/ Sean Parker’s video chat startup AirTime quietly pulled off a relaunch last year, and no one noticed, until now: Erin Griffith…
Read MoreMorgan Freeman, Richard Branson take to YouTube to oppose the war on drugs
Some of the most prominent critics of the war on drugs are taking to YouTube to promote a new documentary called Breaking the Taboo that will be released for free on the site next week. So far, their bid for attention seems to be working.…
Read MoreLike Color, time for Airtime to get off the air
In today's attention starved world, if you miss the chance to make an impression, people move onto something new. Doesn't matter who you were and how much money you have in the bank - users decide who wins or loses. Airtime & Color are finding it out.…
Read MoreSpotify could have browser-based version coming soon
Apps are old-school: on the desktop anyway. Launching a browser-based version of its popular music service could let Spotify reach more users and allow people to access its services from multiple locations.…
Read MoreVideo chat startup Lutebox dumps plan A, goes shopping
What do you do when Google and Sean Parker kill your idea? Change direction. That's what Ali Ahmed and his videochat startup Lutebox have done, switching from the idea of helping people chat about premium videos to focusing on social shopping.…
Read MoreShould Snoop Dogg launch your startup? Your mileage may vary
Two video chat programs launched to the public this week, but Airtime premiered with Snoop Dogg and JImmy Fallon, while Nyoombl barely made a splash. The two strategies pose an interesting question for the startup world — how much initial buzz do you need for success?…
Read MoreAirtime: not enough there to make me care
Today's launch event for Airtime, the Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning social video chat service, was a good representation of the product it was showcasing: the star-studded event was not well planned and showy without enough depth. Airtime can still succeed but it needs more substance.…
Read MoreStars align behind Airtime video chat, but is it Skype or Color?
Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker have finally taken the wraps off of Airtime, their social video chat service that is part Skype, part Chatroulette, part SocialCam with Facebook as the layer for matching users by their interests.…
Read MoreFanning & Parker to launch Airtime: Here’s what we know
Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker are back: The Napster co-founders will launch their social video chat startup Airtime with a press event in New York Tuesday after quietly operating in stealth mode for some months. Here's what we already know about Airtime.…
Read MoreParker: Apple tried to keep Spotify out of the U.S.
It took Spotify seemingly forever to launch in the U.S. after making its debut in Europe, and while the licensing discussions were complicated, Apple played a role in holding up Spotify's U.S. entrance, according to company backer Sean Parker.…
Read MoreA preacher, 500 startups, and a dream to change it all
What Billy Beane is to baseball, Dave McClure wants to be technology startups. And like Beane, he is willing to go anywhere in the world to find a slight edge to beat his richer, bigger and fancier rivals on Sand Hill Road.…
Read MoreAirtime, from Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, to launch in June
Airtime, the social video startup founded by Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, just publicly announced that it will launch in early June. Little is known about the service, but it is said to use Chatroulette-like interaction to get people to meet.…
Read MoreDefining success for cleantech companies
Last week at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference, cleantech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla answered critics of cleantech investing by proclaiming that Khosla Ventures…
Read MoreA different kind of disruption agent needed for energy
Does the energy industry need more disruption-focused web entrepreneurs like Sean Parker, of Napster and Facebook fame? While the world will be better with more Parkers in general, I don't think the energy industry will be disrupted as easily by these types of folks.…
Read MoreVideo: Zennström, Parker On Innovation And Pushing Legal Boundaries
KaZaA and Napster helped destroy entertainment industry value. Now their co-founders have invested in building legal subscription offerings.……
Read MoreFounders Fund Has $220 MM To Invest
The Founders Fund has a raised a new $220 million fund, their second. They will invest in 15-to-20 early stage start-ups, they announced…
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