1) Niche job board site conglomerate OnTargetJobs buys niche job board site Jobloft
2) Vint Cerf done at ICANN, staying on at Google, etc.
3) More streaming TV startups get funding
4) Imeem signs third major label
Niche job board site conglomerate OnTargetJobs buys niche job board site Jobloft – Toronto, Canada-based Jobloft is perhaps best known for going on a Canadian game show for entrepreneurs, winning $200,000 in funding then refusing the money. By not giving up 15 percent of the company, its founders apparently kept more of the sell-out for themselves. The company (pictured) has blogged about their saga here.
OnTarget is a sort of holding company for job sites in various industry verticals, such as healthcare, hospitality and others. It works in partnership with Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm.
Vint Cerf done at ICANN, staying on at Google, etc. — Vint Cerf, considered one of the fathers of the internet for inventing the TCP/IP protocol used to handle data transmissions between computers, is stepping down from his long-time position as chairman of the board of directors at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. He will continue on as the Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. He will continue his work at NASA, advising researchers on how to bring the internet to outer space and the world around us. He will continue helping to connect gadgets to the internet, through his work on the IPv6 Forum, a consortium of companies creating a numbering system to organize
Cerf tells the AP he will also go on to complete five books, including a book on poetry he has written.
More streaming TV startups get funding – United Kingdom-based Skinkers has raised $16 million from Acacia Capital Partners as well as existing investor SPARK Ventures and Skinkers’ own management team. Israel-based Imagine Communications has raised $15 million from Court Square Ventures.
Imeem, one of fastest growing Web companies, signs third major label – Imeem, a company that record labels tried to sue earlier this year because it let people share music playlists online, has just cut a deal with EMI. It already has deals with Sony and Warner, as well as a number of independent labels.
