Which online video companies will get bought in 2010? Venture capitalists are desperately looking for exits while the usual suspects are sitting on more than $80 billion in cash: Microsoft ($20B), Apple ($40B), Google ($15B), Amazon ($3B), and Yahoo! ($3B) just to name the cash positions of a Read more
Category: Brightcove, Microsoft, TechCrunchAccelGolf, a startup that looks to help golfers perfect their game with the help of mobile applications and an online analytics platform, has raised $600K in angel funding. The company was part of the TechStars class of 2009, which was held in Boston. AccelGolf offers native mobile applications for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry users. Using them is pretty Read more
Category: AccelGolf, TechCrunch, TechStarsViral video tracking and measurement firm Visible Measures is launching a new product today to show the weekly trending online videos on the web. Visible Measures will provide brand advertisers, agencies, and movie studios with a benchmark to understand the effectiveness of online video campaigns. Visible Measures lets both ad agencies and big video publishing sites on the Read more
Category: TechCrunch, Visible MeasuresWe wrote about the power of brand buzz on social media sites yesterday, and one contributing aspect to buzz are individuals who are “influencers,” similar in some ways to the trend that Malcolm Gladwell highlighted in The Tipping Point. But how do companies find and then leverage the power of these influencers on the web? Israeli startup Pursway (formerly known as Datanetis), aims Read more
Category: Battery Ventures, Pursway, TechCrunchThe recent introduction of the new Apple iPad has stirred the discussion over the future of web content and application runtime formats, and shone light onto the political and business battles emerging between Apple, Adobe and Google. These discussion are often highly polarized and irrational. My hope in this post is to help provide some balance and clarity onto this Read more
Category: Brightcove, Jeremy Allaire, TechCrunchI sat down with Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week to talk about his business. Brightcove isn’t the sexiest startup out there. They’re a video platform – giving websites the tools they need to host and stream video, for a fee ranging from $100/month to “six figures per year” for the largest customers. For the most Read more
Category: Brightcove, Jeremy Allaire, TechCrunchWhen cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner talk about “TV Everywhere,” they are generally talking about a Web video portal they control themselves which gives their regular cable TV subscribers access to at least some of the same programming online. If viewership is going to shift online, they want to be the ones providing it—and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. But when Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire Read more
Category: Brightcove, TechCrunchStyleFeeder, a recommendation engine for shoppers, has been acquired by Time Inc., the WSJ reported earlier this morning. Time chose not to disclose the purchase price, but the newspaper cites a source who said it was “well into eight figures.” Cambridge, MA-based StyleFeeder raised $3.5 million in financing from Highland Capital Partners and investment firm Schooner Capital. Time Read more
Category: Acquisition, StyleFeeder, TechCrunch, TimeEvery so often, venture capitalist Larry Cheng puts out a list of the top VC blogs. Previously, he ranked the blogs by how many subscribers they have on Google Reader. But now he’s changed his methodology and is ranking them by average monthly unique visitors, based on Compete data. He just came out with his new global ranking for the fourth quarter of 2009. Below Read more
Category: Bijan Sabet, Larry Cheng, Spark Capital, TechCrunch, Venture Capital, Volition CapitalThere’s no doubt that Twitter has managed to create a vibrant ecosystem of third party apps and services around its microblogging platform. When we wrote about oneforty, a social app directory for all things Twitter, last year, the startup’s founder and CEO, Laura Fitton, hinted at the eventual roll-out of an e-commerce marketplace where third-party developers can Read more
Category: Flybridge Capital, OneForty, TechCrunch