TurnHere raises first round as business for short-form video increases
It’s been a couple years since we last wrote about TurnHere, which has given the video site time to find a business model and raise $7.5 million from Venrock and the Hearst Corporation.
A former real estate entrepreneur and journalist, Brad Inman started Turnhere with the intention of creating video snapshots of neighborhoods. The ’snapshot’ has remained, but now applies to much more, including book publishing, travel and leisure, and advertising.
To shoot its videos, TurnHere employs… Continue Reading
Roundup: MobiTV, Loopt, Xuqa, Google embraces TurnHere
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The mobile TV revolution continues, and MobiTV is hot — MobiTV, of Emeryville is one of the start-ups on the forefront. It offers TV programming from networks and cable providers. It started out serving mobile phones. Now it has expanded, first to WiFi, and now with AT&T to anyplace with broadband.
Venture investors like Oak are paying a good price to play. MobiTV raised $70 million in a July third round,… Continue Reading