In The Cloud: An Alternate Theory of Microsoft Yahoo

Seeded on Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:58 PM EST ()

Anyone with an inkling of insight on tech and an opinion is weighing in while we all wait for the next dose of fact to supplant innuendo.

google, yahoo, business, internet, microsoft, merger, operating-system, android, cloud-computing

$34m Series B for video software company Move Networks

Seeded on Tue Oct 2, 2007 7:12 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

Move Networks, a Utah based company quickly gaining notoriety as a partner in encoding and streaming internet video has closed a $34m series B financing. The deal bring the total invested in the past year to about $45m and gives them ample cash reserves to continue expansion.

business, venture-capital, financing, internet-video, series-b, move-networks, transcoding

Meet Deca: the latest Internet Video Studio

Seeded on Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:59 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

Mix Hollywood Dreams and Sandhill's green and you get a lot of would be movie moguls focusing their creative powers on internet video.

technology, studio, deca, youtube, internet-video, viral-video, metue

Echostar buys Sling Media

Seeded on Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:45 AM EDT (www.metue.com)

In a surprise move, Sling Media, maker of place shifting Sling Boxes will sell itself to Echostar, owner of Dish Network. The deal is reportedly in the range of $380m.

business, echostar, sale, merger, sold, dish, sling, place-shifting, sling-box, acquired

MySpace Mobile: Fox Interactive Increasing Focus on Mobile Content

Seeded on Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:03 AM EDT (http://www.metue.com)

MySpace will today launch MySpace mobile, an effort to extend myspace content and features to mobile users on all cell networks via a free ad supported service.

technology, mobile, cellular, fox, myspace, social-network, fox-interactive-media, fox-interactive, myspace-mobile, mobile-social-network

Games on Fire: How Hot is the Gaming Industry?

Seeded on Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:08 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

With a rush of market research reports, with corporate investment and venture backing, the gaming industry is getting a lot of attention. Just how hot is the marketplace?

business, electronic-arts, xbox, gaming, video-games, ps3, casual-games, take-two-interactive, wii

NY Times Select: the experiment is officially done.

Seeded on Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:51 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

The New York Times has finally killed their subscription offering, Times Select and shifted their content to freely available. It's a move in step with the time, one that begins to show recognition of the changes happening in the media industry.

business, new-york-times, new-media, internet-news, times-select

The State of Gaming: NPD Retail Stats Released for August

Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:08 AM EDT (www.metue.com)

Every month gaming analysts wait for retail sales statistics like others sit anxiously in wait for interest rate news from the Fed. Thursday, they got their monthly relief when NPD, north America's primary source of game-retail statistics, released its sales figures for August.

entertainment, retail, software, xbox, gaming, video-games, ps3, hardware, consoles, ea

Netscape Social News Site to become Propellor

Seeded on Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:58 AM EDT (metue.com)

Few websites have gone through more reinvention this past decade then Netscape. Last week, the AOL run company announced it was changing again, scrapping their web 2.0 social news experiment and reverting to a portal format. The social news site will be reborn as a new property.

technology, web-2-0, netscape, news-aggregator, social-news, propeller

iTunes Rent–Flix? 4 Theories

Seeded on Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:56 AM EDT (www.metue.com)

A development slip up on iTunes this weekend seems to reveal Apple is nearing completion of a movie rental service project. Subject of much rumor, the idea of iTunes movie rentals has been reported for the past two years, most notably this past June.

netflix, technology, apple, video, itunes, movies, ipods, rentals, movie-rentals, blockbuter

Vudu video on demand launches: killer app or dead in its tracks?

Seeded on Thu Sep 6, 2007 5:34 AM EDT (www.metue.com)

The holy grail of the home movie industry has been true video on demand; the ability to pick what you want to watch, when you want to watch it and have it instantly. Vudu was billed last April as the most likely to deliver it. Today they've officially launched.

technology, video, comcast, xbox-live, streaming, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, vod, apple-tv, vudu

Meet the New iPods: the Touch, the Classic and the Nano

Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 3:33 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

It's official. After much hype Apple revealed a new iPod family. there's the new boxy video playing Nano, the iPhone without the phone (aka the iPod Touch) and a host of other surprises including wifi, touchscreens and ringtones.

technology, apple, ipod, steve-jobs, nano, new-products, ipod-touch

Handicapping Apple's upcoming Announcement: Setting down the Odds

Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 5:27 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

For a week buzz and hype have built in anticipation of tomorrow's major announcement. Alongside them, the rumor mills have churned out theories as to what is coming.

technology, music, apple, ipod, itunes, odds, steve-jobs, mp3-player, ringtones, iphone

CNN and Reuters Divorce: money an issue

Seeded on Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:41 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

Across the media industry, partnerships to syndicate and share content are becoming the norm. CNN is bucking the trend and going the other way. CNN ended its 27 year partnership with Reuters. The explanation provided was business strategy.

tv, reuters, news, cnn, partnership, world-news

New iPods? The Beatles? Apple's September 5th Magical Mystery Tour

Seeded on Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:40 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

Apple has called a press special event for September 5th fueling wild speculation of a major announcement. Will it be the Beatles? A new line of iPods? Something else. Nobody knows for sure which is just how Apple likes its marketing.

entertainment, apple, ipod, marketing, beatles, steve-jobs, nano, announcement

NBC shopping Internationally: Buys Sparrowhawk Media

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:02 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

Confirming earlier rumors, NBC Universal has indeed agreed to buy Sparrowhawk Media, a private equity holding company that houses several international television properties including the international rights for the Hallmark channel.

business, television, deal, nbc-universal, providence-equity-partners, private-equity, sparrowhawk-media

3 Years and Deep Pockets for South Park Studios

Seeded on Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:22 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

South Park, the long running irreverent star of Comedy Central's lineup, has been extended for three more years.

entertainment, tv, viacom, contract, south-park, comedy-central, salary, youtube, extension, trey-parker

$30m for video portal Metacafe

Seeded on Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:46 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

Eight figure funding rounds for net video companies are starting to become frighteningly familiar. Joining Joost, Brightcove, and Veoh, Palo Alto based Metacafe has become the latest winner of the high-valuation funding lottery.

business, internet, venture-capital, video, financing, youtube, metacafe, dag-ventures, highland-capital

Behind Rhapsody America: Terms of Real Networks and MTV Networks partnership

Seeded on Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:55 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

MTV Networks and and Real Networks have shaken hands on a deal to launch a music store joint venture to compete against iTunes.

business, viacom, music, mtv, itunes, mtv-networks, rhapsody, real-networks, rhapsody-america

Blu–ray vs. HD DVD: Checking Alliances and Choosing Sides

Seeded on Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:37 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

Only about 3 million high definition discs have sold so far (both formats combined). In contrast, standard definition DVD's sell about a billion units in the U.S. every year.

entertainment, dvd, partnerships, format, movies, hd-dvd, blu-ray, high-definition, bluray, alliances

Garth Brooks next to iTunes? News imminent?

Seeded on Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:47 AM EDT (www.metue.com)

John Lennon went this week. Paul McCartney a few months ago. Led Zeppelin is on track for Thanksgiving. The Beatles too are on the way.

entertainment, music, wal-mart, itunes, garth-brooks, nashville

MTV Betting Big on Gaming, Very Big

Seeded on Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:05 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

MTV Networks is reportedly committing upwards of $500m to gaming related investments over the next two years.

business, electronic-arts, investment, mtv, gaming, mtv-networks, guitar-hero, casual-games, ea, rock-band

Blockbuster and Movielink: The Official Price

Seeded on Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:56 PM EDT (www.metue.com)

When blockbuster acquired movielink last week the official word on price was estimates ranging from below $50m to below $20m. Turns out the price was much much lower according to blockbuster's SEC filing. Blockbuster got a profound bargain.....

business, acquisition, internet, blockbuster, price, bargain, movies, movielink

Blockbuster Finally Buys Movielink

Seeded on Thu Aug 9, 2007 6:10 AM EDT (www.metue.com)

Of all the movie download sites, Movielink has been the most handcuffed from the start. Owned by movie studios, limited to Windows and tied to the PC - it never built much of an audience. Now its Blockbuster's problem to solve.

business, acquisition, online, blockbuster, movies, downloads, movielink, rental