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
(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
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
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).