Adserver company, Openads, raises $5M

Adserver company, Openads, raises $5M

Openads, the developer of a free, open source product that serves ads for Web sites has raised $5 million in a first round of financing led by Index Ventures.

Also participating are First Round Capital, Mangrove Capital Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. The London, UK company sells so-called adservers, which are used to serve and manage ads on the pages of Web sites

Often publishers rely on outside parties to serve their ads. We at VentureBeat do… Continue Reading

The new video players: Kyte, DimDim

The new video players: Kyte, DimDim

There are a ton of “video player” companies out there, and they’re starting to blur.

It takes a lot to impress these days. A video player in 2007 should be able to upload any video file — from your desktop or from the Web — and then have it run from any Website from a widget.

Just when we thought innovation was running out, we hear about Kyte, a video player that allows live video and… Continue Reading