A few months ago, VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall highlighted the various players in the gesture recognition technology space, speculating that “one day, very soon, you’ll be able to control an avatar or character on a screen with a mere gesture …
I ran across a pretty cool company last week at the 3 Rivers Venture Fair in Pittsburgh. It’s still in pre-launch, but I think it’s well worth taking a look at. The company’s called Sim Ops Studios, and its newest …
Jhankarbeats, a social music platform for South Asian music, wants to break away from the pack of all-encompassing social music networks and focus on delivering a platform for artist discovery to the South Asian music scene.
Many social sites in …
SightSpeed, a desktop-based video conferencing application, tomorrow launches SightSpeed Light (see screenshot below), a widget video conferencing app, on the Myspace application platform.
SightSpeed Light provides a Flash-based free video chat and video mail between MySpace users, but it is …
http://ustream.tv/I9qIAGp79s6P76CrBpi1wQ.uscUStream.TV, a live video-streaming application, has raised $11.1 million in a first round of funding from venture capital firm DCM, as well as previous investors Labrador Ventures and The Band of Angels.
Since its launch in March of last year, …
Social video startup Unknown Vector launched a browser-based version of its uvLayer application yesterday.
I covered the company back in February following the release of its uvLayer desktop-only app (built on Adobe AIR), and I was pretty impressed with it …
Covestor, an investing community site, has raised $6.5 million in its second round of funding. The London and New York-based company plans to build out its asset management platform, which helps its users make investment decisions.
Covestor targets both average …
Facebook, one of the world’s largest social networking sites, is testing out a feature called “People You May Know,” that shows you the public profiles of people it figures you want to be Facebook friends with.
This seems like a …
Flixwagon, a mobile live video casting platform, has just launched a “Flixee” widget that lets users stream video from a mobile phone to a blog, website, or social networking site.
Additionally, Flixwagon users can deliver their mobile-to-web broadcasts directly to …
Big Bear Entertainment raised $550,000 in its first round of funding from El Dorado Ventures and Optix Pty Ltd., according to a regulatory filing.
The Tiburon, California-based company makes video mods — animated music videos — and produced a series …
Wikia today announced a partnership with collaborative video site Kaltura that will allow the more than a million users of its MediaWiki software to post and collaborate using Kaltura content.
Kaltura, the self-proclaimed “YouTube meets the Wiki” (previous coverage here …
Germany-based ad network Adconion Media Group is moving quickly to spend the $80 million it raised a few weeks ago.
The company just announced that it has acquired Frontline Direct, a data management and direct marketing company, for $20 million.…
Wannabe guitar players seem to have become a promising market lately.
Last year, popular console music games Guitar Hero and Rockband outsold digital music sales by over $100 million, according to sources cited by game-review site Primotech.
Now, Atlanta startup …
Companies still releasing music and movies locked with digital rights management technology may have one more software application to worry about.
DoubleTwist, Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen’s (aka DVD Jon, pictured here) latest startup, yesterday launched a beta application that …
Overlay.tv today launched a video-commerce platform that may give marketers a new way to monetize on online video.
Even online video mammoth Google/YouTube hasn’t successfully implemented a way to extract revenue from its billions of user generated videos. A number …
Video is getting a lot more social — and a new startup is trying to make it even easier to discover and share videos. The company’s called Unknown Vector, and it launched its social video desktop application, uvLayer, just a …
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There are five arms to the music industry: The record label, publisher (sometimes combined), managers, artists, and fans. While we’ve previously examined labels, and surveyed numerous sites that help fans in their attempt to get music, companies that focus …
We’ve seen social editing, social networking, social news, social bookmarking, and even social music take off. Now a social shock to the system is coming to a market usually dominated by insiders and experts: the finance industry.
Online trading brokerages …
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Lifestreaming site UStream.TV is rumored to be in talks with Microsoft, for a purchase price of $50 million. However, the company’s chief executive, Chuck Wallace, tells us only that the company is open to offers, and is otherwise talking …
Live video mobile broadcaster Flixwagon has partnered with MTV in an attempt to promote citizen journalism today, Super Tuesday.
MTV is using Flixwagon’s mobile-to-web broadcasting platform for its “Street Team” of youth journalists covering the primaries from 23 different states. …
