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Ex-Googlers Launch Howcast - YouTube for Instructional Video

Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman — who worked with Google on YouTube and Google Video have left to create their own YouTube of Instructional Video. They have $8 million series A financing, more...
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Video site Revver selling itself for a song

Los Angeles based YouTube competitor Revver has fallen upon tough times. Backed by such investors as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Bessemer Venture Partners, and William Randolph Hearst III, Revver had offered more...
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Sun Buys MySQL

Sun is acquiring open source database company MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options. MySQL is used by many of the web's largest companies, including YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia, more...
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Startup WeGame Launches As YouTube For Gamers

Jared Kim has launched a new website called WeGame that provides both the place and the tools for gamers to share screencasts of their favorite in-game moments. Kim and his team of four have been working more...
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ABC News to befriend Facebook users

Following a little later than CNN-Google-YouTube and MySpace, Facebook and ABC News could be teaming up to bring some political luster to your online world by hosting political debates and discussions more...
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VMIX, another YouTube clone, raises cash

VMIX, once touted as the YouTube competitor has raised $16.5 Million in cash. San Diego based VMIX offers a video player and a content management system that includes social networking features. more...
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