How do you go from designing toilets to building a company that hosts video? Well, the story is twisty, but that’s exactly what makes Michael Litt, the 3 other founders and their product called Vidyard a tale you should read. To start, we have to go back in time and take a trip up...
For the past week we debated whether or not we should pivot. We did not intend to change our company’s product but rather to follow a new direction we planned for further down the road. Pivot has become a very popular word in the entrepreneurship world since Eric Reis started pitching the “Lean Startup...
Many businesses embed YouTube videos on their sites, but one of the pain points of using YouTube as a platform is that visitors can click through the video to YouTube and off the brand’s site — and those videos also include YouTube’s ads and branding. Ooyala and Brightcove both offer professional, enterprise-hosted video platforms...
One of the issues that has dogged Google+ since the launch of the new Google-based social platform is the web company’s requirement that users be known by their real names. Those who defend the virtues of anonymity or the use of online pseudonyms, as we have done in the past, argue that Google is...
Facebook is already the largest photo site in the U.S., and now it is climbing up the charts for online video. Facebook now ranks as the third largest video site on the Web in terms of unique viewers according to comScore, with an estimated 51.5 million people on Facebook watching a video during the...
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Amazon recently applied for a trademark on this logo for Lab 126, the subsidiary that builds the Kindle and is working on an Amazon tablet: Image: via Geekwire The application was filed last week and noticed by Geekwire yesterday. It kind of looks like a power button. But former Microsoft Windows Phone team member...
Microsoft’s Brandon Watson may have received more of a response than he anticipated when he tweeted a message to webOS developers affected by HP’s decision to cease smartphone and tablet device development after more than 500 people contacted the Microsoft director about a switch to the company’s Windows Phone platform. Watson, conversing with a...
Hopper, a Montreal, Canada-based startup Hooper has raised $8 million in fresh funding from Atlas Venture and previous backer Brightspark Ventures to try and ‘reinvent travel search’. Hopper is still in stealth mode, but if you’d like to learn more about what they’re cooking, check out this Boston.com profile or this article from Xconomy...
Some people wonder whether lightning ever strikes twice. Ari Jaaksi must feel as if it can’t stop finding him. After all, the Finnish executive has a couple of terrible moments in the last year. First he quit Nokia last fall after running into trouble with MeeGo — the project to build the company’s next...