PlayCafe, a startup whose existence and funding we were first to report on over the past couple years, is closing shop. Co-founder and CEO Mark Goldenson sent us a post-mortem email about the online game show company tonight. PlayCafe had raised $930,000 from First… Read More »
Archive for April 29th, 2009
One of the companies featured in the story we did yesterday about monetizing unauthorized uploads has closed new round of funding. San Mateo, Calif.-based FreeWheel raised a $12 million Series C round led by Foundation Capital and including existing investor Battery Ventures, which had… Read More »
Pure Digital added a new HD model to its Flip Ultra line today and refreshed the standard definition version of the popular portable video camera. Take a look at the new device with this brief hands-on demo we shot (an example of the HD footage… Read More »
AT&T has adjusted its terms of service again — after retracting parts of a previous revision — to limit uses of mobile data plans for video services like Sling. The new change, as written up by DSL Reports today, excludes “redirecting television signals… Read More »
If you’re an actor, being a chameleon won’t make you a star — unless you make that versatility part of your mystique. That seems to be what actor Brent Rose is banking on. Rose is no stranger to new media, having co-created and starred… Read More »
With the news this week that CBS would be banishing its new series Harper’s Island to Saturday night after sliding ratings, we checked in with Greg Goodfried, EQAL co-founder, president and COO, to ask about the future of companion web series Harper’s Globe. Goodfried pushed the… Read More »
Quantenna Raises $14 Million; company provides chips for wireless HD transmission, Quantenna has raised more than $42 million to date. (VentureBeat) Elsewhere in the wireless HD world, Amimon rolled out its second-gen chips today. Lost‘s Big DVR Audience Poses Advertiser Problem; one-third of the show’s… Read More »
