Machinima.com announced Thursday it raised $3.85 million in funding from MK Capital and other investors, which will be applied toward its business expansion. This is the first round of venture funding the company has raised.
The company also noted it recently named five new board members: Yair Landau, former Sony Pictures Digital chief; Joi Ito, CEO [...]
The NPD Group, which reserves certain data for paying customers–like Apple, Wal-Mart, and others–and more general results for publication in the press, isn’t taking ownership, but it’s not exactly denying the numbers in the report either. NPD spokesman Lee Graham told CNET News.com he “can’t comment on or confirm the information because all of that [...]
We haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, but we will soon. Watch this space for our first take of gameplay.
Yet on Tuesday, Vollee, a 3G streaming services provider, began offering the free, open beta version of Second Life for 40 Wi-Fi-enabled and 3G cell phones with more handset compatibility coming soon. That [...]
Of course, Google benefits when more applications and users interact on the Web by using its APIs. It’s a means to selling more ads.
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“The strength of client in a lot of ways is about presentation and interaction with the data or in original content creation. E-mail is the canonical client application [...]
To drive home his point, Sturtz told me about a study the company did when it was forming: 50 calls were made to shops asking for a price quote on a given repair. Then, a short time later, the calls were made again to the same shops, but this time with women making the [...]
When the news broke earlier this week that Facebook had hired D.C. veteran Ted Ullyot as its general counsel, many news outlets (this one included) took it to mean that this was the first time that the young company had hired executive-level internal counsel.
Not so: as reported by Law.com, Facebook’s prior general counsel, Rudy Gadre, [...]
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If you don’t have content to populate your site, OneSpot has some for you. The Austin-based start-up joins a host of other companies in the business of delivering contextual links for publishers. OneSpot CEO Matt Cohen makes the claim that OneSpot “democratizes vertical or affinity publishing, helping anyone find, select, and deliver links to [...]
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The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based defense contractor said it has calibrated the pathfinder seeker, a component that, along with in-flight targeting data, will ultimately enable the weapon to attack and destroy large numbers of objects in the threat cluster. It plans to build two operational prototype seekers, each with a state-of-the-art infrared plane array. One [...]
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Sony has acquired Gracenote, a company that provides tools for identifying digital media, for $260 million.
Gracenote’s senior management is expected to stay with the company. Sony said in a statement that the deal is expected to be finalized late next month.
Sony, which announced the deal Tuesday, said it will allow Gracenote to [...]
The report deciphers in company-by-company detail where the solar market stood before the 2008 fourth-quarter crash, and how it’s affecting the development of new solar technologies. It predicts where the bottom of the solar market is, who will climb out of it, and when that will start to happen.
Minor players will collapse, leaving market share [...]
