Blinkx
CEO: Suranga Chandratillake
Disruption: Web video search and ad insertion
Disrupted: Search engines and the TV ad business
The fastest growing segment of Internet advertising is video, and Blinkx’s video search engine aims to capitalize on the trend. Blinkx indexes more than 14 million hours of video available on the Web, using software that turns speech into text […]
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MFG.com is an Atlanta-based B2B marketplace for sourcing manufactured parts from all over the world. Users can find nearly $50 million worth of requests for manufacturing quotes per day on the site, complete with CAD diagrams and other specifications. Manufacturers bid on the requests.
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“Free has talked to me about his desire to […]
I was driving to “work” the other day… (Starbucks), when I noticed that all the keys on my key ring were totally polished and clean. You see, after we flipped the boat, my keys laid in seawater for 4 days. The seawater had corroded everything to the extent that I had listed to get new […]
The market for video-on-demand (VOD) advertising is raring to go. The technology is there, and the interest is definitely there, but there are several crucial stepping stones cable operators have yet to cross – namely negotiating business models and receiving premium VOD content.
Everyone in the value chain from advertisers and ad agencies to networks and […]
There is currently a big spread between the OFFSHORE and ONSHORE currency price points of the Thai Baht as it relates with the USD.if you bring $10,000 USD into Thailand and convert it into Thai Baht, they will give you a good transfer rate of 33.5 THB per every 1 USD… Therefore, you will get 335,000 Thai Baht. […]
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The Scholar Ship is a semester-long academic program aboard a dedicated passenger ship that traverses the globe as an oceangoing campus. Students and staff from around the world come together to form a transnational learning community that integrates academic, cultural, and social experiences in programs that enhance students personal and professional development.
The Scholar […]
Kiva.org which loosely translates into “agreement” in Swahili and Proper.com are two startups with different aims targeting the microlending industry.
Prosper.com raised $7.5m from Benchmark and Accel. “There’s no question we were going to get funded because of our tr