Viva! Vision, a provider of branded, user-generated and original mobile video programming, has announced that it has secured $5 Million of funding from its leading investors, Equal Elements.
Posted Mar 09, 2007
Cisco Systems has completed the purchase of select assets of privately-held Utah Street Networks, Inc., the operator of the social networking site Tribe.net.
Posted Mar 06, 2007
Silvio Scaglia, FastWeb founder, chairman and largest shareholder, has turned his attention to a new venture, an internet television and video-on-demand service called Babelgum.
Posted Mar 06, 2007
The BBC has announced a deal with Google to make clips of its news and other programs available on YouTube.
Posted Mar 06, 2007
O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), a venture fund affiliated with O’Reilly Media, said it has officially finished raising its first $51 million fund for early stage investing.
Posted Mar 06, 2007
Open Text Corporation, an independent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and solutions, has acquired Momentum Systems Inc., a privately held company that specializes in providing ECM solutions to U.S. government agencies.
Posted Mar 06, 2007
Berkeley, CA-based Fliqz, a video sharing website, has raised $2.5 million in Series B funding from Mohr, Davidow Ventures.
Posted Mar 02, 2007
Wizzard Software has signed the final merger agreement for the acquisition of podcasting company Webmayhem Inc., dba Liberated Syndication, which will create a podcasting distribution network.
Posted Mar 02, 2007
New DNA microarrays that can profile more than 500,000 exact genetic variations are giving researchers a better view of the genetic causes of many illnesses and helping them work towards more personalized treatments. While experts are nothing but pleased by the new crop of gene chips, they say that five to ten years from now researchers may shift away from current profiling methods toward new sequencing technologies that are currently in their infancy.
Posted Mar 01, 2007
Fox Interactive Media (FIM), a division of News Corp, has completed the acquisition of interactive advertising technology company, Strategic Data Corporation (SDC).
Posted Feb 27, 2007
Local.com Corporation, a provider in the local search industry, has announced an $8 million private placement to Hearst Interactive Media, a division of Hearst Corporation, and Greenway Capital.
Posted Feb 27, 2007
Dada, an international provider of web and mobile community and entertainment services, through its subsidiary Dadamobile, has finalized the agreement for the acquisition of 30% of E-Box S.r.l., which owns the Blogo platform.
Posted Feb 27, 2007
TNS Media Intelligence (TNS MI) has bought Cymfony.
Posted Feb 27, 2007
Internap Network Services Corporation, and VitalStream Holdings, Inc. have announced that each company's respective stockholders provided the approvals necessary to complete Internap's acquisition of VitalStream and that the transaction has been completed.
Posted Feb 23, 2007
SirsiDynix, a provider of strategic technology solutions for libraries, has announced that CEO Patrick Sommers is resigning from the company, effective immediately.
Posted Feb 23, 2007
Lemur Consulting, a search engine company, is part of a consortium that has been awarded a U.K. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) grant of £815,000 to build a web search engine.
Posted Feb 23, 2007
NewsGator Technologies, Inc., a RSS company, has expanded internationally with the launch of NewsGator Europe and the opening of its European headquarters in Amsterdam.
Posted Feb 20, 2007
Springer Science+Business Media (Springer) has acquired 29 journals from Transaction Publishers in an asset deal.
Posted Feb 20, 2007
Anystream, a provider of new media publishing solutions, has acquired Cauldron Solutions to expand its Anystream Media business beyond video production to reach operations and business management.
Posted Feb 20, 2007
A majority of Americans (55%) in an online survey said bloggers are important to the future of American journalism and 74% said citizen journalism will play a vital role, according to a new WE Media/Zogby Interactive poll.
Posted Feb 16, 2007
MySpace will experiment with a video-filtering system designed to block clips containing copyright materials.
Posted Feb 16, 2007
VeriSign, Inc., a provider of infrastructure for the networked world, has announced a major initiative to expand and diversify the capacity of its global internet infrastructure by ten times by the year 2010.
Posted Feb 13, 2007
Cambridge Information Group (CIG) has closed its previously announced transaction with ProQuest Company and acquired ProQuest Information and Learning.
Posted Feb 13, 2007
Sharewire, a mobile solutions provider headquartered in The Netherlands, has received EUR 1.2 million ($1.5 million) in venture capital investment from Main Capital II.
Posted Feb 13, 2007
Media conglomerate Viacom, Inc. has told YouTube, Inc. to discontinue to host Viacom videos without permission and demanded that over 100,000 of its clips be removed from the video-sharing site owned by Google, Inc.
Posted Feb 09, 2007