Roundup: Brightroll, Tumblr, Collective, Veeker, MobileEye, all raise cash

Roundup: Brightroll, Tumblr, Collective, Veeker, MobileEye, all raise cash

Here’s the latest action:
1) Brightroll raises $5M for video ads
2) LGC Wireless acquired for $169M plus
3) InterviewUp, answers for job interviews
4) Alibaba.com to go public
5) Yahoo’s CMO leaves, without explanation
6) Tesla’s shocking $1M crash tests
7) Tumblr, Collective Media, Veeker, MobileEye, BioFuelBox, GameLayers, Shooner, all raise… 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

YouTube’s dancing Jawed, iLike’s music service, Veeker’s mobile splash

YouTube’s dancing Jawed, iLike’s music service, Veeker’s mobile splash

End-of-week roundup in Silicon Valley:

The YouTube jig, and lecture — Here’s a link to a lecture that Jawed Karim, the co-founder of video-sharing site YouTube gave this week. It is a history how YouTube got to where it did. GigaOm has a good summary.

The site’s founders… Continue Reading

Roundup: PixSense, Piczo, Imeem’s new model & more

Roundup: PixSense, Piczo, Imeem’s new model & more

PixSense, latest start-up to offer video compression, is hiring! — This Santa Clara start-up claims no one has been able to compress a video by 85 percent to share it via mobile phone.

It is offering such a feature to consumers and carriers. Some 90 percent… Continue Reading

Mobile video-message service buys Thumbdrive

Veeker, a San Francisco company building a mobile video-message sharing service targeting young users, told GigaOM that it has acquired San Francisco-based mobile software development company ThumbJive, which also has employees in China.

Our last mention of Veeker here (scroll down).