Something is definitely stirring over at video recommendation/discovery provider Taboola, which we last covered a year ago. Ive had multiple sources in the Israeli VC community insist that the company has closed a multi-million round of financing, w…

For many Web startups, the elections offer an opportunity to showcase their technologies and reach people who might never otherwise hear about them. Vineet Choudhary launched his startup Perspctv around the elections. The site is a one-page dashboard…

Live video streaming seemed to be all the rage for a while, popularized by startups like Justin.tv, Ustream, Qik, Mogulus and Flixwagon.
Yahoo jumped on the hype wagon back in February 2008 by launching Y!Live, an ambitious effort put forward by inter…

Since YouTube heralded the era of user-uploaded videos, media corporations have been fighting a hopeless battle to regain control of their content, sending out endless waves of DMCA notices in a vain attempt to take down countless clips scattered acro…

Despite our bumpy history with TuneCore, were big fans of their business model: they help artists get digital distribution of their music on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, napster, eMusic and other online music sites without the trouble of going through …

Its not a big new feature but its certainly one that will come in handy: YouTube will now allow you to send users to a specific point in a video by appending a short tag to the end of a videos URL. Its pretty surprising that this function…