MySpace aims to bring mobile videos to the masses

MySpace aims to bring mobile videos to the masses

Social network MySpace is launching a new worldwide service that will let its users watch videos on its mobile site from their phones. Mobile video has not been a smashing consumer success. But MySpace’s mobile site (m.myspace.com) gets more than 10 million monthly unique visitors… Continue Reading

Mywaves cuts content and ad deal with MTV, a first

Mywaves cuts content and ad deal with MTV, a first

While many an entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley imagine their start-ups replacing established media companies, fast-growing mobile video startup MyWaves is instead working with the big companies.

Today, for example, it is announcing a deal with MTV, where MTV will — for the first time in its… Continue Reading

Mobile video site Mywaves growing fast, despite competition

Mobile video site Mywaves growing fast, despite competition

Leading video-sharing web site YouTube may have just launched a new mobile web version of its site, but startup mobile video site Mywaves doesn’t seem to care, because its growing fast around the world.

Mywaves launched towards the end of 2006, and is now getting around… Continue Reading

Mywaves reports strong growth, unveils mobile video search

Mywaves reports strong growth, unveils mobile video search

Updated

Mywaves, the Sunnyvale start-up that lets people view video clips on their mobile phone, is offering a new way to search for videos.

Essentially, it is video equivalent of Google news alerts.

You can select a term or a phrase, such as “basketball.” Mywaves then searches the… Continue Reading

Video retrenchment begins, Juice Wireless going for broke

Video retrenchment begins, Juice Wireless going for broke

(Updated with substantial clarifications from Juice co-founder Nick Desai)

Juice Wireless, the New York mobile video-sharing start-up, is still on hunt for financing, raising questions about its prospects amid a retrenchment hitting the video sharing industry in the new year.

Juice is raising a roughly $3.5… Continue Reading

Mywaves offers lots of mobile video, and is growing

Mywaves offers lots of mobile video, and is growing

Mywaves, a Sunnyvale start-up that delivers video to your mobile phone, launched in September, but we didn’t give it much coverage.

Mywaves has since grown quickly, however, and now is boasting one of the largest mobile video services.

Large, at least, when compared with YouTube’s… Continue Reading

Pitch your business plan to VCs via mobile phone — on MyWaves

Pitch your business plan to VCs via mobile phone — on MyWaves

MyWaves, a Sunnyvale start-up that lets you shoot video with your mobile and email it to an online account where others can see it, has raised $6 million from Menlo Ventures.

VentureBeat may write more about this company next week, but for now, we point to… Continue Reading