Fliqz turning video-hosting into a business, raises $6M
Fliqz, one of many startups that offers white label video-hosting services for other companies, seems to have found its footing in this competitive market. It has more than 35,000 clients paying between ninety-nine and several thousand dollars a month to reach video viewers on the web. Features let a client and its online users upload, encode, store and organize videos, and stream videos to the web within a customizable player.
Fliqz says it expects to hit… Continue Reading
Google launches YouTube-like video service for businesses
Heading into a battle with Cisco and others, Google is launching a YouTube-like video service for businesses.
Dubbed Google Video for Business, the service makes it easy for large businesses to tap into everything from camera phones to handheld video cameras and upload video to a corporate network. The videos can be standard YouTube-style quality or higher quality video as well.
“We want to make video mainstream for business, just like YouTube did for consumer video,” said… Continue Reading
Fliqz and Kaltura bring video capability to the masses, make Brightcove’s prices look insane
Web video platforms like Brightcove, Move Networks and Maven have a problem: They have all built business models targeting the handful of content companies willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year to push video on their sites. As a result, the platforms are angling for the same big fish in a relatively small pond; each must find ways to outdo the next by investing in new features without adding much to their… Continue Reading
Video player company Fliqz raises $2.5M more from internal investor to tide it over
Fliqz, an Emeryville, Calif. company that offers customized video players to Web site owners, has added a $3.2 million to its second round of funding.
Mohr Davidow Ventures, which previously provided $2.5 million in the second round, added the new capital, according to VentureWire.
And as previously reported, the company raised $750,000 in backing from a number of angels.
The company says it has more than 3,000 customers, including Major League Baseball and VH1, among others, but its… Continue Reading
Roundup: Joost’s API, Fliqz’s easy video toolbar, NBC-iTunes rift, more
Here’s this morning’s roundup of the latest action:
Joost opens widget API to developers: Joost, the oft-hyped online video site started by the founders of Skype, has soft-launched an application programming interface this week. It is trying to get third-party developers to build widgets on top of its online TV network so Joost users can do more with the site’s data.
The company already has sample widgets available on its test site, including a “What’s Similar” widget… Continue Reading
Roundup: Netvibes2Go, Ooma, Wesabe, Second Life voice, Google traffic, more
Here’s the latest action:
Netvibes offers Netvibes2go — Netvibes, the company that has gotten buzz with its cool personalized home page service, is offering a mobile version called Netvibes2Go. It lets you access all your info — contained in useful modules, including email, calendar, to-do list and any RSS feed — while you’re on the go. To get it, you have to configure your Netvibes account on a PC first (creating a new tab, called “mobile” and… Continue Reading
Fliqz, a video sharing website, raises $2.5M
Updated
Fliqz, a Berkeley, Calif. video sharing website, has raised $2.5 million in Series B funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Week. We wrote about the company here, and said at the time we had a hard time believing there is yet another video sharing site launching. We have yet to fully appreciate what this company is offering. We will try to revisit sometime. For it to have invested,… Continue Reading
Fliqz raises $1 million…for yet another video site
Updated
Folks, it’s time to stop launching video sites. We have lost count. No human mind can keep track of all the video sites out there, or the tiny nuances of sharing and hosting technology that differentiate them.
We’re wondering if Fliqz, a Silicon Valley (Emeryville/Berkeley) start-up will go down in history with the distinction of being the last video site ever to raise a round of capital. The start-up says it has raised $1 million from… Continue Reading