A startup called Parascale is preparing to launch software that chief executive Sajai Krishanan says will help media companies deal with ever-increasing storage needs. The company has just raised $11.37 in its first round of venture backing.
Computing and storage in the Internet “cloud” are hot right now, with big players like Amazon and Google offering [...]
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Google and Salesforce announced today that they’re releasing the Force.com Tool for Google APIs, a library that allows developers using Salesforce’s Force.com platform to access the data in Google Apps. Like the Google-Salesforce partnership announced in April, this deal should benefit both companies — Force.com gets better applications, and Google gets another push into the [...]
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Veoh to get ABC content, kind of — ABC, the television network that has been the slowest and stingiest in making its content available online, has struck a deal with video site Veoh that seems, well, behind-the-times and stingy. Veoh will index ABC’s online content, but since ABC doesn’t allow sites to [...]
Everyone with a website knows how important their Google search rankings are. To help site owners get the best rankings possible, the company already offers a set of tools; now, Google is making the data used by those tools available to third-party applications through application programming interfaces (APIs).Those APIs don’t provide the full functionality of [...]
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Seesmic, a startup that lets users post short video comments and snippets, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding. The new round was led by Omidyar Network, the firm created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and Wellington Partners. The San Francisco company has been dubbed the “Twitter of video” — through [...]
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Matt Cohler, Facebook’s vice president of product management, is leaving the social networking company to become a general partner at Silicon Valley venture firm Benchmark Capital.
This announcement follows the departure of Facebook co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Adam D’Angelo last month. Cohler was one of the first five employees hired [...]
RateItAll, a site that lets users write reviews of any topic and receive a share of ad revenue for doing so, has raised $800,000 in funding.
Co-founder Lawrence Coburn describes the company as “distributed Yelp for everything,” and the site’s front page shows off a wide range of topics — the “featured lists” include reviews of [...]
Adobe Flash, the popular platform for web applications and media, may finally be coming to the iPhone. “May” is the operative word here — it sounds like development is still in the early stages, and Apple might not even be interested. While Flash-related speculation hasn’t even approached the level of constant rumors and counter-rumors [...]
Blog search engine Technorati has just unveiled its new ad network, Technorati Media. It’s a smart and obvious expansion, particularly as the San Francisco startup tries to regain some of its initial buzz. There’s heavy competition in this area. Among existing companies, Glam Media, which has been showing big numbers with its controversial push [...]
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Family and friends are usually crucial when dealing with medical problems, so it’s no surprise that there are a lot of companies trying to bring online social networking to the medical world. We’ve cast a skeptical eye on some and argued that a company needs to work hard to stand out. But Seattle startup Trusera [...]
Here’s the latest action: The Associated Press to blogs: Don’t quote us — The Associated Press has demanded that The Drudge Retort (not to be confused with much more famous Drudge Report) take down several blog posts containing excerpts of AP stories. The objections sound pretty silly — the longest excerpt was 79 words [...]
Cooliris has just launched the newest version of its browser plug-in PicLens, allowing you to use the plug-in’s “fullscreen 3D” interface to explore more of the web through the PicLens Discovery feature, as well as new compatibility with Amazon.
PicLens can already be used to explore photos and videos on sites like Flickr and YouTube, as [...]
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