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Jango and Seeqpod Trying to Monetize Music

Stacey Higginbotham explores why new startups keep entering this crowded market to monetize online music - Kasian Franks, CEO of Seeqpod, and Dan Kaufman, CEO of Jango come up with ways of trying to do more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Music  |  

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...
2 Comments  |  Topic: Internet Video  |  

Tesla says it will raise $40M more

Tesla Motors, the hot company making an electric sports car originally scheduled to hit the market next quarter, is now saying the first release of cars won’t have the promised performance and will actually more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Funding Announcement  |  

Why Telecom is not for Startups and Entrepreneurs

Brian McConnell shares his insights on this topic from his rich experience. He says that some combination of distribution problems and consumer apathy will kill most of the current crop of telecom startups. more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Lessons  |  

Digg Might Be Acquiring Menéame and CoRank

Duncan Riley talks about this possibility: Spanish tech site Techtear is reporting that Digg may have acquired Spanish social voting site Menéame and possibly coRank as well. That would make this scenario more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

2500 Invites from Hulu

Startup Hulu is the online video joint venture between News Corp and NBC Universal. Mashable is giving away 2,500 invites to Hulu! That might sound like a lot, but Hulu beta invites are a hot commodity more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Events and Meetups  |  

VantagePoint kills Startup 3Guppies, a $20M investment

The company, originally named Mixxer, first came into existence through a complicated deal in which VantagePoint spent $20 million to buy two companies: MoPhone, a mobile social networking company, and more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Lessons  |  

Magnify.net Releases a Video Blogging Platform

Mark Hendrickson of TechCrunch is writing about Magnify.net which is broadening its focus with the release of a service that lets you record video clips directly into the browser using a webcam. Is this more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Internet Video  |  

Connecticut start-up Validus DC invents DC power?

This is a funny one for the books now. A Connecticut based power startup called Validus DC Systems wants to pay its PR firm a big bonus just for getting c|net’s Martin LaMonica to believe the company more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Stories  |  

Digg hires a bank, lusting to sell for $300 million or more

Eric Eldon on Venturebeat talks about the swirling rumors about Digg and how it has hired a bank to help it finalize the deal it finally wants - to sell for $300 Million or more (first from Valleywag). more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |