Elemental Technologies, which builds encoding software used by some of the largest video providers in the world, raised $13 million in a Series C round of funding led by Norwest Venture Partners, which also includes existing investors General Catalyst, Voyager Capital, and Steamboat Ventures. The Portland, Ore.-based startup has now raised a total of...
Chinese Web giant Tencent has made a move to boost usage of its music service in the home away from the Internet, after inking a deal with US audio system maker Sonos, the LA Times reports. The partnership will see support for Tencent’s QQ Music service built into Sonos’ HiFis and audio products, allowing users to...
China Telecom, the country third largest operation and recent new Apple partner, is wooing corporate customers with a deal aimed at increasing sales of the iPhone 4S and boosting its 3G business, according to The Standard. Beijing-based companies that buy 10 iPhone 4S devices, registered with China Telecom’s subscriber plans, will get an additional...
When we talk about the mobile Web and apps, we’re almost always talking about smartphones. Android and iOS and their competitors are getting most of the innovation these days, but it’s worth recalling that less than half of American adults currently own a smartphone. Many of the rest of us are still toting around simple feature phones...
Generation Y consumers do everything from shop to socialize with their smartphones; is it really any wonder that they feel disconnected from analog-era health-care services? A recent survey from ZocDoc and Harris Interactive found that digitally-savvy Gen Y adults (those between the ages of 18 and 34) think health care is so frustrating that...
We let you know about the release of a new Google+ Hangout feature called “Hangouts on Air” which will allow anyone to broadcast a Hangout live as well as archive it on YouTube for later viewing. This technology is super powerful, and apparently comes with a lot of responsibility if you choose to use...
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock See Also Scott Thompson Is Sorry That This Mess Is Distracting Everybody At Yahoo WHAT IS THE HOLD UP YAHOO? Hey Yahoos, Just How Angry Are You About Thompson’s Fake CS Degree? Another day, another Yahoo scandal made worse by the company’s flat-footed response. Over the years, we’ve heard from...
Having data available electronically is not the same thing as the data being useful. Campaign finance disclosures provided electronically by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), are a good example of that. The New York Times‘s Fech (not “fetch”) is a RubyGem – a packaged application – designed to help journalists and public interest organizations...
Yodel Anecdotal See Also WHAT IS THE HOLD UP YAHOO? Hey Yahoos, Just How Angry Are You About Thompson’s Fake CS Degree? Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson May Get Fired For Another Reason Than Lying Scott Thompson must be feeling the heat from Yahoo employees who are upset he padded his resume by claiming a...
The central issue in Oracle’s Java copyright/patent case against Google, which has been lost after a million-and-one interpretations of the case over the last two years, remains this: If Company #1 implicitly grants Company #2 the right to use technology that #1 created and owns, to the extent that it’s perfectly fine with #2...