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Film distributor Miramax is keen to get a content partnership going with Google’s YouTube and Google TV, as well as its Android Market movie store, the firm’s CEO has revealed. Speaking to New Media Age, Mike Lang said “We’ve had lots of conversations with Google, not only about its TV platform but also YouTube...
As dictatorships slowly begin to topple throughout the Middle East, more and more information is being revealed about the extent to which online activity was monitored in these countries. The sheer scale of Libya’s Internet monitoring system was revealed when journalists and Libyan rebels gained access to Gadhafi’s intelligence agency, while in Egypt and...
Shutl, the super-fast online delivery startup, has announced today that it is expanding its service to cover six more cities to in the UK. Online shoppers in Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and Liverpool will soon enjoy the company’s super-fast service which can deliver online goods within 90 minutes of purchase. The company –...
Singapore-headquartered mobile media and advertising startup Affle has raised over $10 million from D2 COMMUNICATIONS (D2C), Japan’s largest mobile advertising company and a subsidiary of the country’s largest mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, in joint venture with DENTSU. D2C joins Microsoft, Itochu, Bennett Coleman Company and Centurion Private Equity as investors in Affle. Affle products...
Dropbox became popular due to successfully tapping into two huge trends on the Web over the past few years: 1. People now access the Web on multiple devices; including the traditional PC, smartphones, tablets like iPad, Netbooks and more. 2. As Web-connected devices proliferated, it became increasingly useful to use cloud computing services for...
The word on the street is that Sprint is betting the farm on an exclusive for the iPhone 5. It will commit almost $20 billion to Apple for 30.5 million iPhones and it won’t even start to make money till 2014. Crazy? Yes and no! Apple has to love this deal–it basically ensures a...
Everybody seems to be bulking up on VCs today(!); Google Ventures is also adding to its roster, bring YouTube Product Manager Rick Klau to the team as Partner, Startup University. Startup University is Google Ventures’ efforts to transfer as much knowledge and as much background information as possible to its portfolio companies. It does...
Everybody seems to be bulking up on VCs today(!); Google Ventures is also adding to its roster, bring YouTube Product Manager Rick Klau to the team as Partner, Startup University. Startup University is Google Ventures’ efforts to transfer as much knowledge and as much background information as possible to its portfolio companies. It does...