Catching Up on Deal Radar 2008

Here’s some more catching up material for the holiday weekend: In the last month, we have featured the following companies in the Deal Radar 2008 series: * SaaS: PayCycle, Bill.com, Daptiv, PayScale. * Online Video/IPTV: Joost, VideoEgg, YuMe, BitTorrent, Brightcove, Revver, MotionBox, Veoh. * Others: Inform, Mercado, AKQA, Geni, Blurb, Mimosa, Metaweb, Cake Financial, and

Read Full Article »

Deal Radar 2008: Joost

Joost is a peer-to-peer internet TV client software, launched by the Skype and Kazaa founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom. The company?operated from Netherlands, UK and North America? was featured in Mitch Berman’s post on IPTV.

Broadcom: Broadband Communications Business

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In my last article on Broadcom, I took a look at its Enterprise Networking Business and concluded that it is a steady revenue source for the company. I will now proceed to dissect the Broadband Communications business.

Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 4)

SM: You are saying that the middle does not have a business model supporting it. The first mile and last mile have business models, but the middle does not. TL: Right. The middle mile is where you get into a lot of problems with the Internet. It is because there is no money flowing in

Read Full Article »

Mitch Berman’s Zillion TV

Guest Author Mitch Berman’s ZillionTV is financed. If you want to know what the stealth mode ZillionTV is doing, reading Mitch’s posts below may give you a clue. But hopefully, it won’t tell all. * Interview with Mitch Berman * IPTV: Next-Gen Television? * IPTV, Next-Gen Television: The Operators * IPTV, Next-Gen Television: The Box

Read Full Article »

Online Video Beneficiaries: Synthesis

Online Video is a clear growth market, and many parts of the ecosystem are benefiting as a result. I have done a series called Online Video Beneficiaries, which you can catch up on here: * Online Video Beneficiaries: Introduction * Online Video Beneficiaries: Polycom * Online Video Beneficiaries: Cisco * Online Video Beneficiaries: 3Com?

IPTV, Next-Gen Television: InternetTV

By Mitch Berman, Guest Author Previous Posts: * IPTV: Next-Gen Television? * IPTV, Next-Gen Television: The Operators * IPTV, Next-Gen Television: The Box YouTube, Joost, Veoh, Babelgum, Azureus, BitTorrent… according to the San Jose Mercury, there are 247 different companies calling themselves “InternetTV”. All of them deliver video online to the PC or to mobile

Read Full Article »

IPTV, Next-Gen Television: The Box

By Mitch Berman, Guest Author Previous Posts: * IPTV: Next-Gen Television? * IPTV, Next-Gen Television: The Operators It’s the Chinese Wall, the troll under the bridge, the fallen tree blocking the road. It’s been the anathema of consumer-delivered payTV services around the world. It’s… the Set Top Box! We already have TV boxes from cable

Read Full Article »