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The content that's working for YouTube's $100M bet

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 23, 2012 | Comments

Head of original programming, Tom Sly, on YouTube's original programming strategy

Just this week, Google led a $35 million investment in Machinima, one of the more popular video producers on YouTube. Earlier this week, Hulu announced its original content summer lineup. Original programming by YouTube, Hulu, Amazon, Netflix is exploding. How will YouTube compete and what's working for the media company as part of its $100 million effort to build up ...

Financial reputation crowdsourcer, Lenddo, gets $8M

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 15, 2012 | Comments

Accel Partners, Blumberg Capital, Omidyar Network, Inovia, Metamorphic invest in lending start-up

If you're middle class in an emerging market, you're probably aware of the difficulties in getting a loan. In fact, in the U.S., the debt-to-income ratio is more than 100% while in emerging countries, it's closer to under 10%, meaning there are a lot of people around the world who are underbanked, in many ways because financial institutions cannot verify ...

Simplee raises $6M for healthcare-savings solutions

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 15, 2012 | Comments

Social+Capital leads investment in start-up that helps consumers manage, pay medical bills online

Every year, about two months before April 15, my husband and I prepare our taxes, before we send them to our accountant. This requires us to calculate our bills, such as medical payments we made in the prior year. For these payments, I count up the receipts while at the same time call the medical providers for records of what ...

TalentBin launches as recruiting tool to find engineers

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 15, 2012 | Comments

First Round and Charles River Ventures-backed start-up officially opens its doors, after pivoting

TalentBin, which crawls the Web to compile a profile for technical workers based on implicit information, announced Tuesday that it's officially launched, and has moved out of private beta. TalentBin started off as Honestly.com, which was launched a couple years ago with $1.2 million in funding back in May 2010 from First Round Capital and Charles River Ventures. ...

YouTube's $100M bet is about viewership, not return

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 14, 2012 | Comments

Head of original programming, Tom Sly, on YouTube's original programming strategy

YouTube currently generates all of its revenue from advertising, but is considering adding a subscription component, a feature requested by many of its users. That's just one of the many tidbits I got from Tom Sly, head of original programming at Google's YouTube, who sat down with me recently. Sly also talks about YouTube's original programming strategy, which was announced ...

Norwest leads $13M Series C in Elemental Technologies

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 8, 2012 | Comments

NVP bets on video delivery over multiple devices, such as iPads, iPhones, smartphones, set-top boxes

The 2012 Olympics will be held this July in London, and apparently, the event will not only showcase the world's most skilled athletes, but the power and diversity of Internet delivery of content over television. As the BBC's director of future media, Ralph Rivera, said in a Financial Times interview, "Our aspiration is that 2012 will do for digital and connected ...

Angry Birds maker hits $106M in sales; 648M downloads

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 7, 2012 | Comments

	Finnish game developer establishes could go public in 2013 The other day, I was standing in line at a store with my five-year-old son, who asked me to buy him some Angry Birds candy. This follows a recent purchase of an Angry Birds sweatshirt, and an Angry Birds stuffed animal for his backpack. We must have about 12 variations of Angry Birds apps on my iPhone and iPad. He ...
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How big companies engage the social marketplace

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 7, 2012 | Comments

Jeff Dachis, founder and CEO of Dachis Group, talks to Bambi Francisco

The Dachis Group helps companies connect and engage with their customers by helping them understand who their advocates are and how their brand is being perceived across social media. Recently, Bambi Francisco sat down with founder Jeff Dachis to find out how he helps companies engage the social marketplace. In the interview, Dachis talks about ways to identify the most loyal and ...

Facebook picks up the team at mobile start-up Glancee

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 4, 2012 | Comments

Social networking giant snaps up mobile social discovery app

Congratulations to the Glancee team. Late Friday, the Glancee team let users of the mobile social discovery service know via email that it's now part of Facebook. Glancee, one of the semi-finalists at Vator Splash Sept. 2011, is a mobile app that works on iOS and Android and helps you discover people nearby with similar interests. The price tag was ...

LifeStreet Media lands $66M for in-app advertising

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 3, 2012 | Comments

Nautic Partners invests in provider of advertisements on Facebook, iOS, Android

Another day, another investment in social in-app or mobile in-app advertising companies. LifeStreet Media, which embeds advertisements in applications across social media sites or mobile, announced Thursday that it's raised $66 million in financing from Nautic Partners, based in Providence, RI. Founded in 2005, Lifestreet has raised $3.6 million in financing prior to this latest round. LifeStreet provides in-app advertisements ...

kWhOURS unveils iPad integration at Greenstart Demo Day

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 2, 2012 | Comments

Making field engineers faster and more effective

(Correction: To reflect iPad release and pricing model) All buildings have to go through some assessment of how compliant they are with government health and safety standards. But that assessment process can take a lot of time and money. KWhOURS hopes to reduce that expense by providing software to help companies make that assessment in a shorter period of time ...

RidePal launches a Google Shuttle for all of us

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 2, 2012 | Comments

At Greenstart Demo Day, RidePal announces Solar City as premium customer

Google's Shuttle is one of the more enviable perks the search giant offers its employees traveling from San Francisco to Mountain View and other locations. Not only are the rides free, they're WiFi enabled. Now other companies can offer such a fringe benefit to their employees with the help of RidePal, a San Francisco-based start-up founded by former Googler Nathalie ...

Smart Grid Billing launches at Greenstart Demo Day

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 2, 2012 | Comments

Start-up provides load balancing to the energy grid by focusing first on golf cart energy usage

We've all probably read articles on how much energy costs we can save by utilizing power when it's not at peak demand. Unfortunately, most people don't really know the cost of how much energy it takes to heat, say a hot tub, or to power a dishwasher. Most people just utilize energy as needed, without being cognizant of the fact ...

Vungle gets $2M in seed round for in-app video ads

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 2, 2012 | Comments

SV Angel, 500 Startups, SoftTech VC, Maynard Webb, Scott McNealy, Tim Draper invest

There's two markets experiencing rapid growth: mobile apps and mobile advertising. And, Vungle is vying to become a big part of those opportunities. Vungle announced Wednesday that it's raised $2 million in seed funding to help mobile app developers get noticed by advertising their apps through 15-second video trailers. The new funding comes from a star-studded group of early-stage investors ...

Crocodoc arming companies to compete with Google Drive

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 1, 2012 | Comments

SV Angel, Y Combinator start-up launches enterprise tool to edit documents in the browser

One of the ways people collaborate on documents today is to first download them on their desktops, edit them, and then email them to others or upload them to a cloud-based sharing service, like Box or Dropbox, where others can access them. Then the recipient downloads the documents, edits, and the whole process starts all over again. It almost sounds ...

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