The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreSimulmedia announced that it has raised a $6 million Series C round from its existing group of investors, which include Avalon Ventures, Union Square Ventures and Time Warner Investments. That money will be put toward sales and support as it grabs more TV ad dollars.…
Read MoreVideo chat startup Tango has raised another big round of funding, bringing in $40 million in Series C financing led by Qualcomm Ventures and Access Industries. That comes on the heels of impressive growth, with more than 45 million users signed up in just 18 months.…
Read MoreIf this week's NAB Show is any indication, by 2020 "broadcasting" is a term that will be foreign to anyone under 40. Based its programming, it seems that pretty soon no one will be concerned about how content is distributed -- just whether or not it's good.…
Read MoreJames Cameron and Vince Pace have been working together on 3-D for years, but now the two are hoping to revolutionize the 3-D video market. I got a chance to sit down with them and talk about the future of 3-D in the home.…
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos took the stage at the NAB Show in Las Vegas to give a preview of the streaming service's upcoming slate of original programming, including the return of Arrested Development and other projects.…
Read More3Crowd is rebranding itself XDN -- which stands for eXchange Delivery Network -- and finally coming out of beta. The startup founded by BitGravity's former CTO plans to offer content delivery services to anyone at a steep discount when compared to providers like Akamai and Limelight.…
Read MoreMid-rolls beat pre-rolls as the ads you're most likely to sit through. Viewers stick around through mid-roll ads about 87 percent of the time, according to Adobe. That compares to a 67 percent completion rate for pre-rolls, and a 50 percent completion rate for post-rolls.…
Read MoreAfter a month of rumors surrounding a funding round being picked up by mobile social networking startup Path, the company has finally closed the deal and officially announced that it has raised more than $30 million in a Series B financing round led by Redpoint Ventures.…
Read MoreUrbantag allows you to curate and build lists of your favorite places, giving recommendations for where to go or where not to go. Users can then share those lists with friends online or in the app. It's kind of like Pinterest, but for real-world places.…
Read MoreUber has launched a new mobile website that at m.uber.com, aimed at allowing Blackberry and Windows Phone owners to use the service. That will help expand its potential user base, especially as it expands to more than 15 new cities worldwide this year.…
Read MoreWayIn is announcing TwitPolls, the creatively named platform for distributing polls on -- you guessed it -- Twitter. The service will let sports teams, brands, TV producers and ad agencies build Twitter polls and measure voting in real time, increasing engagement and building loyalty with fans.…
Read MoreVideo discovery app maker Fanhattan is getting a lot more social, integrating with Facebook's Open Graph to allow its users to share what they're watching with friends. It's also rolling out a Facebook app for discovering web-based videos from directly within the social network.…
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