YouTube to Get Into Live Videos This 2008
2008-02-29 17:05:32
Better late than never. YouTube will finally be rolling out their version of JustinTV, Yahoo!Live, Mogulus, Seesmic, etc. this year.
Sarah Meyer of Pop17, interviewed YouTube co-founder Steve Chen and documented some interesting news that would be the talk of the year. YouTube, backed by the web's largest service provider, Google, will be venturing out into territory that they do not dominate, live video streaming.
Here's the transcript of part of the interview, ...more
MyBlogLog, a social network for bloggers has overhauled their users' profile pages to include aFacebook-like lifestream.
The Yahoo owned social network started as a widget and a little social network where you couldn't do much nor told you much except who was current;y reading your blog. Now however, they have put themselves in the lifestreaming arena along with Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter and these guys . Basically these services (now including MyBlogLog) keep you and your friends updated on mostly everything that's going on with you online.
The MyBlogLog feature is a whole lot similar to the Facebook NewsFeed. However, unlike Facebook, MyBlogLog includes updates from various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. ...more
Thursday and here's the roundup. The week's coming to an end and our list gets shorter. Anyway these are still investments that should be able to help the industry and make a lot of young hardworking entrepreneurs real happy.
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New York-based Magnify.net has raised $1M in a Series A round involving Next Stage Capital, New York Angels, Rose Tech Ventures, Active Angel Investors, Ogden Capital, Gideon Gartner, and Chris Anderson. ...more
As expected, Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer has resulted in lawsuits from their very own shareholders. We did report last time that the first lawsuit filed regarding the offer was actually already the second one since the real first one was a year ago when Yahoo also turned dow Microsoft's offer.
Today, Yahoo now has seven lawsuits to fight. Yahoo says, "We do not believe, based on current knowledge, that any of the foregoing legal proceedings or claims are likely to have a material adverse effect on our financial position."
These lawsuits all claim that Yahoo should have taken the Microsoft offer and that there were errors in judgement on the Yahoo board's decisions. Of course, those who filed the suits are just out for a quick buck. ...more
2008-02-27 17:29:47
Microsoft Fined Nearly $3 Billion By The European Commission for Breaking Antitrust Laws
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We covered the last time the EU commission fined Microsoft for breaking European antitrust regulations.
Today, Microsoft did not escape their trial and punishment. The software company was again charged on the antitrust issue regardless of Microsoft's today and ita allthe stud pepper.
"The European Commision added a massive 899 million euros ($1,3 billion) to the original fine of 497 million euros ($737 million), which brings us to the whopping total of €1,35bn or $2,038bn." ...more
It's been quite a while since I've done a round up of fundings and acquisitions. The thing is, there hasn't been a lot going around lately and if there were, it's not really a headliner. Anyway, just for the useful information, here are the latest capital inout and acquisitions.
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FriendFeed, the social, shared feed reader, is opening its doors to the public today, and the company is also announcing a $5 million round of funding from Benchmark Capital as well as FriendFeed co-founders Paul Buchheit, and Sanjeev Singh. ...more
I've subscribed to the official Google blog RSS so it's really official stuff to report. It's also going all around the web news today that Google has released two new toys both for beta testing. I didn't want to write separate intros for each so they're both in this article.
First up, Video AdSense is now in public beta. Many companies have tried to monetize from video ads however, the common methods of prerolling or postrolliung ads within the video really get oon our nerves and the whole ad-in-video flops. Now Google has yet again come up with a solution of delivering ads in videos without disturbing the user. They stuck with what already works, AdSense.
Video AdSense is still the same text Ads we find everywhere except these will be overlayed on the video within the player. It won't interfere with the video except for the space it will take up on the bottom of the screen. ...more
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