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VEVO, the Web’s MTV, is winning the music wars
VEVO , the music video portal that launched in conjunction with YouTube and a number of music labels in December of 2009, is bringing back the glory days of music videos. And, based on its meteoric rise to the... (Continue reading)
OneRiot lures developers by sharing real-time ad revenue
Written on 15 Jan, 2010 at 10:44 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Real-time search engine OneRiot, which recently launched search ads, is trying to spread the wealth. Its offering a revenue share from its realtime ad network, RiotWise, for developers that integrate its results into their projects. ... (Continue reading)
Booyah’s MyTown steams ahead in location-based gaming with 450,000 users
Written on 15 Jan, 2010 at 0:31 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Booyah , the mobile gaming company full of alums from Blizzard Entertainment, just rocketed ahead in the world of location-based gaming. Their MyTown app, which is kind of like Monopoly for the real world, now has 450,000 users who... (Continue reading)
Cannondale’s new Simon device takes bike suspension to the next level
Written on 11 Jan, 2010 at 13:09 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Cannondale Bicycles and Analog Devices are showing off of a new breed of bicycle suspension this week. Called Simon, Cannondale’s new front suspension monitors the terrain with internal sensors and adjusts the damping rate accordingly. For racers, this could... (Continue reading)
Crunchies: Zynga’s Mark Pincus sees a future for socially-conscious virtual goods
Although best-known for sucking in about 70 million people to become online farmers and crop-growers in its Farmville game, Zynga has also started using virtual goods to raise money for different social causes. The company launched a “Sweet Seeds”... (Continue reading)
Chinese video website Youku raises $40M more, furthering arms race
Written on 21 Dec, 2009 at 11:38 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Youku.com , one of the largest and fastest growing Chinese video websites, said Sunday evening it has raised $40 million in its latest round of funding and signaled that it expects to raise up to $40 million more before... (Continue reading)
Rumor: 02 is buying Israel’s Jajah for $200M — but we hear it’s not done
Written on 21 Dec, 2009 at 11:38 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Internet telephone company Jajah , one of a host of companies that allow users to make international phone calls cheaply over the Internet, will be acquired for about $200 million by the large Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica’s mobile division,... (Continue reading)
RockYou explains how a hacker stole 32 million passwords — and what it’s doing about it
Written on 16 Dec, 2009 at 4:23 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Social app maker RockYou confirmed today that it is notifying millions of its users that their usernames and passwords may have been compromised by a hacker who broke into the company’s older applications known as widgets. ... (Continue reading)
AOL in talks to sell ICQ to DST; Bebo also on the block
Written on 14 Dec, 2009 at 2:03 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
AOL is in talks to sell off its ICQ instant-messenger service to Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal . Citing unnamed sources, the Journal said that talks with DST, an... (Continue reading)
Pogoplug to bring easy file sharing to countries around the world
Written on 11 Dec, 2009 at 12:17 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Updated San Francisco based startup Cloud Engines, the maker of PogoPlug , a device that lets you access and share content from your hardrives through the internet, today secured $3 million in funding according to a SEC filing .... (Continue reading)