The Money Trail 6-27-2008
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San Francisco, Seesmic Says ‘Why Not?’ To $6M More
Just four months after closing its Series A funding, video chat company Seesmic Inc. has raised $6 million in Series B financing from E-Bay Co Founders “Omidyar Network” and Wellington Partners.
http://www.seesmic.com
THE WEEKLY MONEY TRAIL-6/20/2008
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San Francisco, Mochi Media Makes $10M To Monetize Games
With plans to build out its infrastructure to meet demand from game developers for its ad platform, Mochi Media Inc. has raised a $10 million Series B round of funding.
http://www.mochimedia.com
New York Hanger Network Racks Up $10M More
Hanger Network In-Home Media Inc., which distributes ads, coupons and promotional [...]
Always On Hollywood 08
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The Always on Hollywood event went off big as usual. There were tons of VC’s and institutional bankers there courting the business of the young, and the fresh (hot media start ups).
There were quite a few impressive starts up offering their pitches for rooms full of venture capitalist ready to wage their calculated bets on [...]
Comcast invests in P2P video-delivery startup
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Seems Comcast has been busy lately, as reported a few days ago with the Plaxo deal. I noticed today that Seattle-based GridNetworks on Monday said that Comcast would make an unspecified investment in the company and collaborate on developing so-called peer-to-peer file-sharing techniques that are “friendly” to Internet service providers.
That’s a step in the right [...]
Microsoft Releases Preview of New of Robotics Platform, and new portal called robochamps
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Microsoft released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the new version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 contains improvements in its runtime performance, distributed computational capabilities and tools.
Scheduled for release later this year, the first preview of the product is now available for evaluation and [...]
