Sling Media’s top execs sling out of the company
Much of the key management team at Sling Media is leaving the company, paidContent reports. Those on their way out include chief executive Blake Krikorian, senior vice president of business development Jason Krikorian, president Jason Hirschhorn, chief creative officer Ben White and vice president of sales Greg Wilkes.
Sling Media is widely known as the maker of Slingbox, a device that lets you access your recorded television content from anywhere in the world over the Internet.
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Roundup: Meg Whitman for governor?, Sling Player for the iPhone, Picasa for Mac and more
Here’s the latest action:
Meg Whitman, governor of California? — That’s the rumor following Whitman’s resignation from the boards of eBay, Procter & Gamble and Dreamworks SKG. Current Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (yes, the Governator) will leave office in 2010, and term limits prevent him from seeking re-election. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay, and, like Schwarzenegger, a Republican, has hinted that she may run. One potential rival in the primary could be Steve Poizner, the current… Continue Reading
You’ll love Sling.com if you have a Slingbox or can’t live without CBS — otherwise you’ll still love Hulu
Sling Media, makers of the Slingbox, have just opened up their television streaming site, Sling.com, to the public. The service, which is not only just like Hulu but actually streams some of Hulu’s content as well, also allows you to watch any content you have on your Slingbox at home right on your browser. That’s a nice feature, but it’s hardly enough to make the masses turn to Sling.com rather than Hulu. That will only… Continue Reading
NewTeeVee Live: Sling Media’s Krikorian doesn’t think content from the web in the living room is a “hobby”
GigaOm’s Om Malik interviewed Sling Media’s co-founder and chief executive Blake Krikorian on stage at the NewTeeVee Live event today in San Francisco. It’s clear that Krikorian is very bullish on the prospects of using the web to bring content into the living room. Obviously, Sling has had a lot of early success in using the web to move content with its Slingbox device.
But Krikorian thinks the move to the living room is more of… Continue Reading
Sling Media video portal takes live TV, clip-sharing online
Sling Media, known primarily for the SlingBox, a device that can stream your home television signal to you anywhere in the world, is branching onto the web today with a limited beta release of Sling.com, a video portal that will let users not only watch premium and live video content, but also share clips of their favorite shows with friends.
Sling.com will give users access to a library of video content — movies, television and popular… Continue Reading
BitGravity pipes video through the web, raises round
BitGravity is a bit player in the world of moving video through the web. But it believes in rounding up some powerful partners.
The Burlingame, Calif.-based company is announcing today that it has raised $2.5 million from media dealmaker Allen & Co. and Blake Krikorian, cofounder and CEO of Sling Media, the maker of the popular Sling Box. (Sling Media is now owned by EchoStar.) Krikorian will join the BitGravity board.
BitGravity has created a technology that… Continue Reading
EchoStar buys Sling Media for $380 million
Echostar, a satellite TV provider, has purchased Sling Media, the maker of the Slingbox device that lets consumer record and play television shows on computers and mobile phones, for $380 million.
Sling raised two rounds of funding for a total of $56.6 million,
Echostar participated in its second round — a cool $46.6 million in January 2006, that also included investment from Allen & Company, Goldman Sachs and Liberty Media.
It previously raised $10.5 million in a November… Continue Reading
The Microsoft showdown with MacWorld & the Apple Phone
Lots of action this week, as two technology conferences compete for attention. Here’s the latest:
–At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that started last night, Micrsoft’s Bill Gates announced Windows Home Server software, to be made available in the second half of 2007. It wants to become the center of a home’s computer network, from photo and video storage to television, to accessing computer files at the office while away from home. (More details… Continue Reading
Roundup: Digg, MyBlogLog, Sling, Trumba, Kongregate & more
Silicon Valley never sleeps. Here’s the latest tech stuff:
Digg subverted — The news site that ranks stories based on how many users submit them, is being subverted by a group called Spike the Vote. It lets its members conspire to submit certain URLs of stories — thereby lifting the odds those stories will get front-page coverage.
MyBlogLog goes live — This is a site we’ve mentioned before, while it was in testing mode. It hasn’t changed its basic… Continue Reading