On any given day, venture capitalist Brian Hirsch dashes the hopes of five or more entrepreneurs. "You never like to say no, but it's part of the business," said Mr. Hirsch, managing partne…— Read more
The makers of Just Sing It have announced that they raised $1 million in funding.
I wrote about the app when it launched earlier this month. At the time, CEO Alec Andronikov told me that his vision is to create a truly addictive social experience — users don’t just share karaoke performances, they…
Today, Coinsetter, a New York City-based startup looking to launch a new Forex trading platform for Bitcoin, announced today that it has raised $500,000 in seed capital. The round was led by Tribeca Venture Partners and SecondMarket founder and CEO Barry Silbert (through his Bitcoin Opportunity Fund…
A group of big-name technology entrepreneurs are throwing their weight behind a new platform dedicated to trading in “bitcoin,” an emerging alternative to paper money.
Bitcoin, which began its life in 2009, is now a fast-growing virtual currency. The mostly paperless trades take place on approved I…
1_Pig Newton (Louis C.K.)
For bringing the funny directly to fans and forging a path for other artists to do the same. Frustrated with the way comedians were treated by large production companies and tired of the byzantine royalty agreements that left him with little to show, monetarily speaking, f…
Thursday, January 24, 2013
New capital positions company to transform the online ad marketplace
NEW YORK, January 24, 2013 – AppNexus today announced it has raised $75 million in Series D funding led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), one of the largest growth equity firms focused on the tech…
For years, Microsoft has been the king of the world’s offices, as its own Office productivity suite dominating the market. If you’ve worked in an office in the last 20 years — preferably at one with computers — chances are good that you’ve used (or at least familiar with) Word, PowerPoint, Excel or…
The first wave of online TV startups is starting to gain momentum: first there was Aereo, which streams broadcast TV using a warehouse full of tiny antennas, and now there’s NimbleTV, which promises to stream cable or satellite TV from anywhere in the world with datacenters full of cable boxes. The…
“TV Everywhere” is supposed to let you watch whatever you want, wherever you want to watch it, on any device you want — as long as you pay for TV.
But the cable guys have been working at this for more than three years, and they still can’t really deliver. Here’s a company that says it can: NimbleTV…
Not unlike Aereo network broadcast streaming TV service, NimbleTV has just launched a beta program allowing users to access subscription TV service through NimbleTV’s cloud-based software.
This lets users stream TV content directly to the device of their choosing, including the computer, tablet or…
If you pay for cable or satellite you should be able to watch it anywhere on any device. You paid for it! That’s already possible by using a Slingbox, but NimbleTV wants to let you do it without a box. Disruption.
Instead, the service records your pay TV for you remotely and then beams it to the we…