Swarmcast is a company whose technology can change the way online video is transmitted over the web, making it faster, cheaper, more reliable, and of higher quality than it is today.
This morning, it launches Swarmcast Live, a platform that enables streaming video from live events like sports games and concerts in quality as good as [...]
The online advertising market is consolidating at a terrific pace, leaving fewer significant independent companies around.
The ranks of ad exchanges, for example, have slimmed considerably. Google acquired DoubleClick, Yahoo gobbled up Right Media, Microsoft has snagged AdECN, and marketing conglomerate WPP’s bought 24/7.
ContextWeb’s ADSDAQ is one of the last major independent online ad exchanges [...]
Caltrain, the local commuter train service, has seen its ridership grow to a record of nearly 11 million this past fiscal year, continuing a healthy rebound from the depths of the post-Bubble era.
This is quite a turnaround. Caltrain had seen its ridership plunge to eight million in 2004, down from more than ten million near [...]
Amp’d Mobile, the mobile entertainment company that burned through $350 million in venture backing before imploding and auctioning off its assets last week, continues to baffle.
As mentioned, the chief executive flew around a black helicopter on company expense, and radically relaxed credit check requirements on customers to boost subscribers.
Now, looking at the company’s list of [...]
See David Hamilton’s story at VentureBeat LifeSciences about this gutsy filing.