Dyyno pledges video sharing at a fraction of YouTube’s costs
While Google grapples with making YouTube profitable, a Silicon Valley start-up called Dyyno says it has a fraction of the video-sharing site’s distribution costs and is focusing on monetization out of the gate.
Dyyno’s technology basically lets users build a channel of whatever they want: live video, recorded video, presentations on their laptops, photo slideshows or game-playing and then stream it live to many concurrent users. The content is also archived for later use.
CEO Raj Jaswa… Continue Reading
WhiteHat Security secures $7M
WhiteHat Security, a provider of website security services has raised a fourth round of funding.
Claiming to be the only complete solution for website security, the company’s WhiteHat Sentinel service is a subscription-based service that offers control of site vulnerabilities that are customer-controlled and expert-managed.
This new funding will be used to expand on service such as its Sentinel program.
This $7 million round was led by Horizon Ventures and existing backers Altos Ventures, Garage Technology Ventures and… Continue Reading
Connectbeam: Corporate social networking just getting started
(Updated, with reference to announcement by Awareness of its new product, called Summer 2007)
Dozens of social networking companies are trying to serve businesses. So we were surprised yet another young company, Connectbeam, has just managed to raise $3.5million to try the same.
We talked yesterday with Connectbeam’s Puneet Gupta, and asked him why it isn’t game over yet.
You’ve got giants like Cisco acquiring vendors like Five Across (see coverage) and Tribe (see coverage) to offer… Continue Reading