Ooyala Expands Into Aus...
Premium streaming video service Ooyala , serving such influential media properties as Fremantle Media, Vice Magazine, Glam Media, Electronic Arts as well as yours truly, today announces its plan to expand its operations to Australia. To helm this initiative, the company has appointed...
Chartbeat Raises $3 Mil...
In a short amount of time since its launch in April, 2009 and its redesign a year later, realtime analytics startup Chartbeat has gained an impressive following of more than 2,500 paying corporate customers. All of this was done so far with 5 employees, led by general manager Tony Haile....
TweetUp Now Includes Up...
Twitter search and advertising startup platform operator TweetUp has announced today that its search engine for Twitter will be expanding to include bios and updates posted to other social networks, including LinkedIn and Facebook. Because the company will no longer be solely based on...
Online Backup Startup B...
Here’s something you will not read every time an acquisition deal collapses at the last minute: an account of what happened, and why it did. Let alone why it happened twice over Read the original post: Online Backup Startup Backblaze Was Almost Bought. Twice. What Went...
Taboola Turbo Charges R...
Video recommendation startup Taboola has been having quite a year, signing up major Web publishers such as the Huffington Post and the online editions of Bloomberg and The New York Times. See the rest here: Taboola Turbo Charges Revision3′s Video Uplift By...
Adblock Plus Extension ...
Adblock Plus , the wildly popular Firefox browser add-on that, well, blocks ads, is not going to get the plug pulled out of any time soon, and might eventually turn into a self-sustaining venture, even. That’s the gist of this blog post by ABP developer Wladimir Palant (hat tip to...
Tim Draper: Meg Whitman...
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post and endorsement written by Timothy C. Draper , Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Seventy years ago, Stanford grads David Packard and Bill Hewlett took $538 dollars, opened up shop in a Palo Alto garage and, as they...
Dude, I Am So High Righ...
Just in from WeedMaps (think Yelp for Pot ) CEO/owner Justin Hartfield: an email letting us know that Tim Draper at Draper Fisher Jurvetson isn’t going to invest in his startup. That’s ok, says Hartfield. He’ll just keep “growing organically” for...
Did Facebook Kill Faceb...
The service is down for almost everyone we know, and many people we don’t . Read the original post: Did Facebook Kill Facebook...