Kara Swisher in Media on November 28, 2012 at 8:00 am PT
The former Yahoo exec joins the Venice, Calif.-based video start-up, which is about to celebrate one billion monthly views.
Kara Swisher in Commerce on November 27, 2012 at 1:04 pm PT
Is a boardroom showdown looming for the troubled daily deals company and its affable co-founder?
Kara Swisher in Media on November 12, 2012 at 7:00 am PT
The race is not always to the swift.
Kara Swisher in Media on March 15, 2012 at 9:30 am PT
Can’t we all just get along? Yes! Hollywood grabs a piece of Silicon Valley content tech.
Kara Swisher in News on February 26, 2012 at 7:00 pm PT
The Charleston, N.C.-based software company, which focuses on hourly workers, said the new investment will be used to for product innovation and customer acquisition strategies.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 31, 2011 at 11:10 am PT
As video on the Web evolves, Courtney Holt moves to the new-generation production company — which makes and distributes more professional original content to the Internet, mostly via YouTube.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 20, 2011 at 12:02 pm PT
Maker Studios, a new-generation production company, has just gotten another $2.5 million in venture funding to help it make videos, mostly for YouTube.
That brings total funding from Greycroft Partners and GRP Partners to $4 million for a studio created to bring more professional original content to the Internet.
Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard.
Today, its co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million round at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, in a wide-ranging interview at the start-up’s Palo Alto, Calif., HQ.
Kara Swisher in News on March 17, 2011 at 6:15 am PT
Ugh, yet another attempt to pass off “authentic” online videos as real ones, in order to hawk something.
This time, it’s a video of a geeky man using a little transmitter, a red balloon and an iPhone to change screens in New York’s Times Square.
Except not.
Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2011 at 12:02 am PT
Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation.
The price being discussed for the San Francisco-based start-up is between $60 million and $90 million, said several sources, in talks that are “substantive.”