Comcast, Adobe, Nielsen, MTV and more at NewTeeVee Live 09
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NewTeeVee Live 09
November 12, 2009
Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA
http://live.newteevee.com
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Paid content comes to the Ompire
Our friends over at GigaOm are launching a new subscription service within their blog network. Called GigaOm Pro, it gives readers year-long access to a wide range of in-depth analyses on technology trends and issues for $79. The service intends to complement existing research reports published by the likes of Forrester and Gartner, but cost hundreds of dollars less.
It’s an effort to explain more than a blog can day-to-day. Topics, for now, cover mobile infrastructure,… Continue Reading
GigaOM’s network grows with new open source blog
Om Malik’s online news empire GigaOM continues to grow with the launch of OStatic, a blog focusing on open source software.
There’s already a huge community of people interested in open source (software whose source code is freely available, allowing for easy adoption and modification) and plenty of sites devoted to the topic, including code repository SourceForge and user-generated news site Slashdot. What’s missing, however, is a traditional news blog, a VentureBeat or a GigaOM for… Continue Reading
GigaOm, the technology blog network, raises more funding
GigaOm, a popular Silicon Valley technology blog network, has raised another round of funding from True Ventures, with angel investors participating.
Founder Om Malik says the money will be used to build out the editorial operation as well as hosting more events. For example, GigaOm blog NewTeeVee, which covers the online video market, will do a repeat next year of the industry conference it hosted yesterday.
The angel investors include Rakesh Mathur, Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman,… Continue Reading
Roundup: Veoh sues, MySpace’s tiny profit, Nirvanix, Wikipedia’s color-coding, more
Here’s the latest action:
Veoh Networks files preemptive suit against Universal Music Group — Veoh, the San Diego video start-up we’ve written about, said it filed the suit to assert its rights as a copyright-compliant company after UMG threatened it with litigation.
Geni gets cloned by a German Verwandt, but there’s also Israeli MyHeritage — Verwandt, the German copycat of the family tree social network company Geni, told us last month it had raised financing from Neuhaus Partners, and… Continue Reading