Microsoft just made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in Move Networks , a startup that helps companies offer high-definition video on the web. The funding should help promote Move Networks’ integration with Microsoft’s Silverlight platform.
The American Fork, Utah-based startup says its technology encodes high-quality video and cuts down on buffering delays . Microsoft, meanwhile, has found some high-profile uses for its relatively new technology Silverlight, including the online broadcasts of the Beijing Olympics. You can already see the combination of Silverlight and Move’s technology in the videos posted on the official website of the Democratic National Convention , which started today. (Of course, it’s a bit of a drag that you need to install not one, but two different players to watch official DNC videos.) Apparently, Silverlight will allow customers to add branding and other interactive elements to Move’s videos.
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Facebook , the popular Palo Alto-based social networking site, can’t stay out of controversy. The latest one may blow over sooner than later.
Today, a Media Week article said Facebook would unveil a new ad feature that sounded pretty far out and gutsy, even for a company that is trying to run a business: A sponsored advertisement on a person’s profile updates (Facebook calls these updates a “news feed”) which, when a person clicked on it, “their enti... more
Podshow , a company that promotes podcasts and finds sponsors for them, has raised $15 million more in a second round of venture capital from its big-name investors, following up on $8.85 million in a first round last summer.
Dan Primack has the scoop .
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San Francisco start-up BuzzLogic is trying to help you sort through the blog clutter. If you’re a marketer or PR person, how do you really know who is an influential blogger and who is not?
BuzzLogic just launched at the DEMO conference, and is homing in on this “influencer” question.
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FBI investigators want to charge two men for spying in Silicon Valley to benefit China, and they say it is just the tip of a massive effort by the Chinese government to set up front companies to do this sort of thing.
In the latest case, they say Lan Lee, an American citizen, and Yoefei Ge, a Chinese national, stole chip designs and software from their employers NetLogic Microsystems of Mountain View and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in San Jose, and planned to go into business wi... more
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