Online animations network Aniboom is seeing a real boom in demand for the animations its independent animators are creating. The Israeli company is announcing today that it has five new outlets for its online animations and has added a half-dozen mobile TV partners — all of whom will expose 360 million viewers to Aniboom’s videos.
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Microsoft is announcing today that it has created a easy-to-use Popfly Game Creator, a software tool that makes it easy for anyone to create their own arcade-like video games.
The tool is based on Microsoft’s popular mashup tool Popfly, which is based on the Microsoft Silverlight multimedia platform technology that competes with Adobe’s Flash. It isn’t [...]
[Update: corrected some figures here] China’s online video game market is expanding rapidly, with sales expected to nearly quadruple from $1.7 billion in 2007 to $6 billion in 2012, according to a survey being released Friday by market researcher Niko Partners.
The market is expected to grow 32 percent 47 percent in 2008 to $2.5 billion, [...]
Private equity firm teams up with environmentalists: Green really does mean green, as in money, these days. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has teamed up with the Environmental Defense Fund to create a “green portfolio” partnership of companies that can help improve the environment and get a return for investors. As of Sept. 30, 2007, KKR’s investments [...]
Sezmi, a start-formerly known as Building B, plans to change the way we watch TV through a combination of broadband and over-the-air television.
The Belmont, Calif., company promises to give consumers a new option for pay TV and an easy way to watch movies, TV, and Internet video all in one convenient place, where switching between [...]
Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center showed off 10 fascinating projects this week, everything from eraseable paper to solid-ink printers, but such moments always raise the specter of the past.
Xerox famously failed in the 1970s to commercialize the personal computer, instead letting others, such as Apple’s Steve Jobs, lead the way.
I met with Mark Bernstein, the [...]
Jim Crowley, the CEO of Turbine, isn’t an easy man to get a straight answer from. I heard that his company, which makes “massively multiplayer online” games such as “The Lord of the Rings Online,” was raising a new round of venture capital about a month ago. That’s a big deal, since Turbine is one [...]
As part of the “indie” movement, Kongregate has been trying to do for user-generated video games what YouTube did for user-created videos.
The company is announcing today that it will launch seven new games within a couple of weeks on Facebook, a move that represents its first expansion beyond its current web site, which currently gets [...]
Fulcrum Microsystems has created an alliance for its partners to adopt its chips more quickly and has raised $29.2 million in venture capital.
The Calabasas, Calif., chip company has now raised nearly $100 million in five rounds since its founding in 2000. That’s a big chunk of change and it has been able to do so [...]
Steve Perlman, the man behind tech incubator Rearden, is a serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years’ experience in the tech industry. He built his first computer from a kit during high school in 1976. He developed graphics at Atari and worked as a principal scientist at Apple, leading the development of a variety of [...]
Robots aren’t just for hobbyists anymore. The programmable gadgets have taken off thanks to the efforts of tech-oriented companies such as WowWee, Sony, Ugobe and LEGO. But the market may be ready for a whole new level as Disney enters the market tomorrow.
Disney Consumer Products is announcing Wednesday that it will make programmable toy robots [...]
The social networking market has brought fame and fortune to a number of Silicon Valley startups. But several entrepreneurs have veered off the path of being the next valley billionaire and have instead harnessed the viral nature of social networking to support nonprofit causes. After a couple of years laying the groundwork, these social-networking nonprofits [...]
The famed Palo Alto Research Center opened its doors to journalists today to show off a bunch of research projects from smart documents to cleantech.
Mark Bernstein, head of PARC, told me today that no interviewer ever forgets to ask about how Xerox fumbled the future by failing to commercialize the technologies behind the personal computer [...]
I made a trip to the local Game Crazy store at midnight to pick up a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for $60. There were 39 people in line, including a few under-age kids who got stopped at the door because they weren’t old enough to buy the game. There was a lot of [...]
Major tech companies are expected to announced tomorrow that they have created a “HomeGrid Forum” in order to advance the cause of broadband networking over wiring in the home, VentureBeat has learned.
Members of the group include Infineon Technologies, Intel, Panasonic, Texas Instruments, Aware (DSL chip maker), Gigle (a home-networking chip maker), Pulse~Link (a home-networking chip [...]
Electronic Arts‘ chief creative officer William “Bing” Gordon announced today he is leaving the video game company he joined in 1982 to become a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He will start at his new post in June with a focus on start-ups in consumer technologies. During the past decade, Gordon has served [...]
Moving beyond its movie and video game rental business, Blockbuster said this morning that it has started selling retail video games and game hardware to all of its U.S.-owned stores.
The effort is part of a plan to significantly expand its game business and compete with the likes of GameStop and Game Crazy stores. Hopefully, this [...]
The video game “Grand Theft Auto IV” is likely to be a cultural, business and technological milestone.
The game targets 18-34-year-old males who are hardcore, or play a lot of games all of the time
I’m on the hardcore fringe, part of the aging male demographic — and so not really part of the target group. [...]
Rackspace, the web-hosting company known for its quality support, has filed for an IPO (see its filing here), unafraid of what is otherwise a moribund initial public offering market.
The company said it will try to raise $400 million and set its price through an auction.
The underwriters are Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, and [...]
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