video chat

Real Bonding With Family Around the TV Via Skype

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 25 at 6:03 pm PT

Tely Labs’ telyHD turns Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end—seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition using TVs instead of computers.

Skype’s iPad Plans Leak Out Over YouTube

Ina Fried in Mobile on June 24, 2011 at 3:45 pm PT

Skype was planning to wait until next week to announce its iPad plans, but the cat got out of the bag on Friday after the company briefly posted a promotional video to YouTube. The company pulled the video, but not before it was captured by others and re-posted.

Four Big Projects Facebook Should Launch, and Probably Will–Even Though It Says It Won't

Liz Gannes in Social on January 27, 2011 at 9:33 am PT

There are several obvious product launches coming for Facebook, but it either denies they’re in the works or refuses to talk about them.

New iPods: Touch Gets FaceTime, Nano Gets Multitouch, Shuffle Gets Click Wheel

John Paczkowski in News on September 1, 2010 at 11:05 am PT

Apple’s refreshed lineup of iPods, introduced by Steve Jobs today, looks pretty much as anticipated–snazzed-up revisions of the touch, nano and shuffle.

The $100M Revenue Club: EHarmony Captures Hearts Of VCs

Tomio Geron, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

EHarmony Inc. may not be the trendiest or flashiest dating Web site out there, but it has steadily grown to become a big piece of the online dating space. The company has done this by bucking the trends, both when it was founded during the dot-com bubble–when a slew of companies launched to marry the power of the Internet with the age-old desire to meet Mr. or Ms. Right–and more recently, when a new crop of sites has focused on casual dating through features such as social networking or video chat.

Happy Chat: Paltalk Buys Back Its Shares From Softbank, at a Premium

Peter Kafka in Media on July 15, 2009 at 3:35 am PT

Here’s a funding story you don’t see often, recession or no: A start-up buying back its shares from its venture capitalist, at a premium. But that’s the transaction that video-chat firm Paltalk and Softbank have completed. Paltalk, which sold off 20 percent of its equity to Softbank for $6 million in 2004, has bought the shares back. No one has spelled out a purchase price, but I’m told the deal will be considered a “single” for Softbank–it gets its capital back, plus a return–which in this economy ought to be a home run.