Now that we know that Facebook has over 800 million users, music on Facebook is a serious business. Streaming music has never been embraced by record labels, but even they can’t ignore these numbers. Spotify CEO Daniel EK hit the stage at Facebook’s F8 event today and told us that Spotify users who use...
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings today announced that Netflix would be integrating tightly with Facebook much in the way that it is working with music, but that due to laws in the US, it would not be available there yet. It will be available in 44 other countries around the world however. The licensing laws that are...
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At the Inspire Conference back in June, The Next Web met a new startup called Lutebox, which sold itself as a “social entertainment hub for premium content”. In Lutebox’s case, a social entertainment hub is basically an online hangout where users can stream, play and discover premium entertainment content and consume it in real-time...
Since its launch in 2009, content discovery engine Thoora has been in private beta. But today the site, which combines aggregation, curation and search for personalized news streams, is stepping our of private beta and is now public. There’s no doubt that there is a content overload when it comes to news sites, blogs...
Earlier this year, after online documentary distributor SnagFilms raised $10 million, we asked CEO Rick Allen what he was going to do with that money. His plans came down to two things: more content and wider distribution. The company is making good on both of those plans, as it’s announcing its first slate of...
Oracle this morning announced that it has acquired GoAhead Software, which sells packaged service availability software to network equipment providers (NEPs) and other players in the commmunications industry. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. GoAhead, a privately-held company based in Bellevue, Washington, provides software that speeds the time to market of carrier-grade...
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Vidyo has been on a roll lately, announcing new products and partners to get its high-quality video conferencing technology embedded in enterprise and small- and medium-sized business applications. To meet that demand and accelerate growth, it’s ramping up headcount, mostly in sales and marketing, and on Thursday will be announcing a new round of...