MobileBeat’s panel of experts
I’m pleased to announce our esteemed panel of experts for MobileBeat.
They’ll listen to the pitches from the MobileBeat presenting companies, and select the winners in various categories. We introduced the MobileBeat Tesla Award yesterday and explained the competition categories.
The panelists are as follows:
John Smelzer, FOX… Continue Reading
Next New Networks raises $15M more for video channels
Next New Networks, the company that publishes thematic channels of video online, including Barely Political (which features Obama-cheering Obama Girl), has raised more capital to keep expanding.
It has taken $15 million more from Velocity Interactive and Goldman Sachs, we’ve just learned. This adds to the… Continue Reading
Levinsohn to merge firm with Silicon Valley’s ComVentures
Ross Levinsohn, the former News Corp. deal-maker who led the acquisition of MySpace, has merged his firm with a controversial Silicon Valley firm to focus on media investments.
We first reported rumors that Levinsohn would team up with the ComVentures in October, and this evening Levinsohn… Continue Reading
Levinsohn to team up with ComVentures on media investments?
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We’re hearing Ross Levinsohn, the former News Corp. dealmaker considered responsible for the decision by that company to acquire MySpace in its relatively early days, may team up with ComVentures, a somewhat controversial Silicon Valley venture capital firm, to help invest in early stage investments.
Levinsohn… Continue Reading
Levinsohn and Miller form Internet roll-up fund
Ross Levinsohn (left), the former News Corp. exec who masterminded the early acquisition of popular social networking company MySpace, has formed a new firm that will invest in Internet businesses.
Levinsohn is reportedly being joined by Jonathan Miller (below), former chief executive of America Online.
It is… Continue Reading
Fabrik raises $24.9M more for file storage and sharing
Fabrik, a company that offer online storage and easy sharing of big files, has just closed a $24.9 million deal and added Ross Levinsohn, former President of Fox Interactive Media, to the board.
Its financing came primarily from 3i, with a small chunk from ComVentures.
As noted… Continue Reading
News Corp’s Levinsohn was caught raising roll-up fund
So you thought Ross Levinsohn, the News Corp exec who saw his stature grow after masterminding the acquisition of MySpace, left voluntarily?
So did we.
AlwaysOn’s Tony Perkins, however, provides the real scoop (click on image).
According to Perkins, Levinsohn (pictured left) was forced out when News… Continue Reading
MySpace founders shortchanged, Yahoo’s binge over, Timebridge, Mashery, FON, Workday
The round-up of crucial stuff in Silicon Valley:
Did MySpace’s Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson get shortchanged? — VentureBeat has heard that MySpace, the biggest success of the Web 2.0 wave so far, in terms of users, wasn’t such a great a hit for the co-founders. Word… Continue Reading