By Geoff Spick CMS Wire This week sees the National Association of Broadcasters show take place in Las Vegas. It’s the place to find out what’s happening in Internet broadcasting alongside other TV and film technologies. It’s Showtime! The National… Read More
Xconomy by Bruce V. Bigelow Almost two months ago, Kevin Kinsella of San Diego’s Avalon Ventures, fired off some shots heard ’round the world, saying that Big Pharma’s hardball acquisition tactics and mercenary business practices have been pushing biotech ventures… Read More
Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY Fox Digital Media has begun the development of a Kaltura-powered video asset management platform geared to serve online video across the Fox Networks Group.
By AJ Glasser insidesocialgames.com The casino genre is a fickle field for social games. With the exception of Zynga’s Texas HoldEm Poker, which seems to have a death grip on a spot in our top five games on AppData, not many… Read More
Forbes #53 Rich Levandov Avalon Ventures Profile His firm Avalon Ventures is not well-known outside of biotech circles or its San Diego headquarters (Levandov is based in Waltham, Mass), but his November 2007 Series A investment in social game… Read More
The Wall Street Journal By JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF Pfizer Inc. is partnering with a San Diego biotechnology firm in an unusual early-stage drug-development deal that could be worth as much as $210 million and bolster the pharmaceutical giant’s new push… Read More
Xconomy by Robert Buderi It’s no secret to anyone looking at venture activity that New York has blossomed over the past few years as a startup mecca. Riding a wave of investments in Web , media, and advertising startups, the city… Read More
Wade Roushe xcconomy Alex Polvi is on the tech world’s express elevator. Just a few years ago, the 25-year-old computer science graduate from Oregon State University was a system administrator at Open Source Lab, the home of Linux, Apache, Drupal,… Read More
PRNewswire TwinStrata, Inc., the leading innovator in data storage and data protection solutions using cloud storage, today announced that the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union in the United States, has selected its CloudArray® virtual appliance to… Read More
AppStorm by Justin Stravarius A major USP of the cloud and SaaS apps is data security. Anyone with logical thinking would understand the benefits of having their data stored in a world class data center managed by experts and their… Read More
by Luke Timmerman Xconomy Few people in biotech have the guts to stir the pot the way Kevin Kinsella did in an interview with Xconomy’s Bruce Bigelow earlier this month. Kinsella, a venture capitalist with a 30-year track record of… Read More
New York Times by PHYLLIS KORKKI If the inventor of Scrabble were alive today, he would be amazed by the way millions of people are playing his word game now: on tiny screens, wherever they happen to be, against players… Read More
San Jose Business Journal by Cromwell Schubarth Zynga is reportedly close to raising half a billion dollars in a funding that values the social gaming company at about $10 billion.
The Wall Street Journal by Russell Garland Kevin Kinsella founded Avalon Ventures in 1983, which seems like eons ago in the history of venture capital.
Xconomy by Bruce V. Bigelow San Diego’s Avalon Ventures has had some noteworthy success in the past couple of months. The 28-year-old firm raised $200 million for its ninth fund, which was oversubscribed by 33 percent. Avalon, which invests in… Read More
BusinessWire NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel Capital to invest $26 million in six mobility companies around the globe. New investments will help drive continued innovation in mobile hardware, software and applications ecosystems. Technologies bring new user experiences across a continuum of devices.
Infostor by Dave Simpson Last year, the number of startups that entered the storage market just about equaled the number of storage vendors that were acquired in the M&A fever. I have no idea when a startup ceases to be… Read More
Digiday by Melinda Gipson The digerati at AlwaysOn seemed to be of two minds with respect to the future of television. One group believes that the increasingly large entertainment hearth in your house today will ultimately become just one more “monitor” –… Read More
cnet News by Rafe Needleman Mirco Wilhelm, the poor guy whose Flickr account was mistakenly wiped out, along with the 4,000 photos, comments, and working hyperlinks in it, could have saved himself some amount of heartache had he signed up for… Read More
Cloud Ideal For More Than Just A Data Repository Processor by George Crump What if the entire storage management process could be rendered as simple as installing a cable modem? Simply connect a box to your network and then connect… Read More