socaltech | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 27 2006 | kevo, social, networking, content, wiki, celebrities, celebrity, fame, famous, socaltechA venture capitalist reader recently turned us on to a new company with a new angle on the social networking and user-generated content space, Thousand Oaks-based Kevo (www.kevo.com). Kevo is developing an online, wiki-based consumer service focused on co
- socaltech | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 27 2006 | msn, network, live, control, room, content, distribution, concenrts, music, xbox, microsoft, socaltech
Redmond, Washington-based MSN and Los Angeles-based Network LIVE (now renamed Control Room) said late Tuesday that they have entered into a multiyear, global live content distribution agreement. MSN will be the exclusive online provider of Control Room's
- socaltech | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 26 2006 | social, networking, media, user, generated, content, panjea, socaltech
I recently bumped into Seth Alsbury, founder of Los Angeles-based Panjea (www.panjea.com), an online social networking and media web site. Panjea has gotten some attention for its service, particularly the company's music and music video content. There's
- socaltech | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2006 | tv, television, content, women, bejane, home, improvement, hardware, venture, capital, vc, investment, socaltech
Last Thursday, we spent the day at VentureNet, a venture capital conference run by the Technology Council of Southern California. The conference presented local technology firms to an audience of venture capitalists. One of the companies presenting the
- socaltech | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 14 2006 | twistbox, hispanic, latin, wireless, mobile, games, content, socaltech
Los Angeles-based Twistbox Entertainment is in a deal to develop content for the Hispanic and Latin American market, saying that it has entered into a deal with Latin World Entertainment to provide premium content, advertising-support programming, games,
- socaltech | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 12 2006 | news, verisign, mobile, content, jamba, myspace, simpsons, wireless, socaltech
News Corporation is buying VeriSign's mobile entertainment subsidiary Jamba, the companies said today, in a deal worth $188M. News Corp said it will combine VeriSign's Jamba subsidiary and combine it with Fox Mobile Entertainment assets, to form a new Los
- socaltech | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 12 2006 | nokia, warner, content, mobile, phone, socaltech
Los Angeles-based Warner Bros. Digital Distribution is in a deal to allow its content to be distributed through Nokia devices, the companies said today. A dedicated Warner Bros. mobile content storefront will be embedded in Nokia's "COntent Discoverer cli
- socaltech | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 29 2006 | streaming, media, multimedia, content, delivery, cdn, abc, radio, vitalstream, socaltech
Irvine-based VitalStream has signed on ABC Radio to provide online ad-insertion and streaming media, the firm reported Monday. Vitalstream said that it will provide Windows Media Streaming Services for the majority of ABC's radio stations and network prop
- socaltech | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 24 2006 | entriq, bt, british, content, media, multimedia, download, socaltech
British Telecommunications (BT) and San Diego-based Entriq said Thursday that the two companies are teaming together to provide and end-to-end digital content system for selling content via the web and mobile platforms. BT Media
- socaltech | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 24 2006 | juice, wireless, online, media, content, socaltech
Juice Wireless, a developer of mobile and online social media software, said today that it has scored a win at Starcom to power the firm's annual corporate meeting. Juice provided instant mobile messaging and polling data for Starcom's annual company mee
