Archive for July, 2008
Weekly Money Trail- 07/25/2008
Posted under .NET, AJAX, BPO, Bay Area, Business, CheeseTrail, Coding, Design, Developers, Entertainment, Gadgets, Green, Hip Hop, Hollywood, IPTV, Mash Ups, Media, Music, Sales & Marketing, Social Networking, Start Ups, The Money Trail, UrbanTech, VOD, Valley Swag, Venture Capital, Video, Web Services, web2.0 on Friday, 25 July 2008 by admin
Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio.
This is Cisco's first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of...
Weekly Money Trail- July 18, 2008
Posted under .NET, AJAX, BPO, Bay Area, Business, CheeseTrail, Coding, Design, Developers, Entertainment, Fly Gear, Gadgets, Green, Hollywood, IPTV, Mash Ups, Media, Music, Networking, Social Networking, Start Ups, Streaming, The Money Trail, Urban, UrbanTech, VOD, Valley Swag, Venture Capital, Video on Friday, 18 July 2008 by admin
Seattle, Comcast's ThePlatform goes social with Chirp
Social media start-up Chirp Interactive Inc. has sold some of its assets to Comcast Corp.'s thePlatform just six months after a seed funding. Financial terms were not disclosed, but we can only assume with Comcast deep pockets, and social media...
The Weekly Money Trail- July 11, 2008
Posted under BPO, Bay Area, Business, Coding, DRM, Design, Developers, Entertainment, Fly Gear, Gadgets, Green, Hollywood, IPTV, India, Mash Ups, Media, Microsoft, Music, Networking, Outsource, P2P, Sales & Marketing, Social Networking, Start Ups, Streaming, The Money Trail, UrbanTech, VOD, Valley Swag, Venture Capital, Video, Web Services, web2.0 on Friday, 11 July 2008 by admin
San Francisco, VC seed DRM Software Co. ByteShield
ByteShield Inc., a provider of copyright protection software, has secured a round of seed financing. Showing that VC's still think there is a market for DRM technologies.
http://www.byteshield.net
Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To...
Linden and IBM break the METAVERSE Barriers with “OPENGRID”
Posted under Bay Area, Business, Entertainment, Hollywood, Social Networking, Start Ups, web2.0 on Wednesday, 9 July 2008 by admin
This is a BIG day for Second Life, and for virtual worlds in general. IBM and Linden Lab of San Francisco have announced that research teams from the two companies successfully "tele-ported" avatars from the Second Life Preview Grid into a virtual world running on an Open Sim server.
Just As...
ZeeVee TV helps make HD easy with “Localcasting”
Posted under Business, Entertainment, Fly Gear, Gadgets, Hollywood, IPTV, Media, Start Ups, UrbanTech, VOD, Video, web2.0 on Friday, 4 July 2008 by admin
Start Up ZeeTV is not just another media box, or set top box maker. The start-up company just announced a box that will allow users to broadcast high-def web video and other computer content to any HDTV in the house.
The box hooks to the monitor output of your computer, broadcasts to an HD...
Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008
Posted under AJAX, BPO, Bay Area, Business, Coding, Design, Developers, Entertainment, Hollywood, IPTV, Mash Ups, Media, Microsoft, Networking, Outsource, Sales & Marketing, Social Networking, Start Ups, Streaming, The Money Trail, UrbanTech, Valley Swag, Venture Capital, Web Services, web2.0 on Friday, 4 July 2008 by admin
Microsoft throws it's weight behind Semantic light wieght, POWERSET.COM
Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine's ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together....
Flickcharts open up to the VIP’s
Posted under .NET, AJAX, Business, Coding, Design, Developers, Entertainment, Hollywood, IPTV, Mash Ups, Media, Microsoft, Sales & Marketing, Social Networking, Start Ups, VOD, Video, Web Services, web2.0 on Wednesday, 2 July 2008 by admin
I just got my credentials for the new service Flickcharts which is aiming to help users by giving them tools to organize, rate, and comment on movies. I like what they have done with the ASP.NET AJAX controls, very clean user interface, and pretty intuitive. I cant really see much use for the...
Connections 2008, Santa Clara, Ca.
Posted under Bay Area, Business, DRM, Entertainment, Green, Hollywood, IPTV, Ipod, Media, Microsoft, Music, Networking, P2P, Sales & Marketing, Social Networking, Start Ups, Streaming, The Money Trail, UrbanTech, Valley Swag, Venture Capital, Video, Web Services, web2.0 on Tuesday, 1 July 2008 by admin
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Parks Associates annual 2008 Connections conference. For 3 days you get the latest in market trends on access services, video delivery, online content services, advertising, digital health, digital media, and home systems.
Kurt Scherf, Vice...
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