Google Ventures general partner Rich Miner will join the board of directors of San Francisco, US-based mobile app performance management (mAPM) firm Crittercism to replace Wesley Chan, who left Google Ventures to establish his own company.
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AT&T says Netflix's call for free interconnection as an "arrogant proposition"
Jim Cicconi of AT&T said the call of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings for free internet internet connection was an "arrogant proposition" that would require everyone else except Netflix to pay, Reuters reported.
California-based late-stage investment firm Technology Crossover Ventures raises $2.23B for eighth fund
Palo Alto, US-based late-stage investment firm Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) raised $2.23 billion for its eighth growth equity fund from European and Asian private and public pension funds, financial institutions and other investors.
Netflix-Fitbit hack auto-pauses movie when watcher falls asleep
Engineers of California, US-based on-demand Internet streaming service Netflix hacked a Fitbit activity tracking device and activated a feature that auto-pauses the video when the watcher falls asleep and allows him to resume watching when he wakes up.
Pokémon airs on Netflix on March 1
Japanese anime Pokémon airs on March 1 on Netflix, according to a report from TimeNewsfeed. Pokémon fans, this annoucement is for you. Tired after years of watching it on television and then left waiting for the next show? Now the japanese anime TV series is yours whenever you want it starting March 1st on Netflix, reported TimeNewsfeed.
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New York, US-based startup Docurated nabbed $3.75 million in its first major funding round led by Rogers Venture Partners to help companies index and search for their files on local servers and cloud storage services.
Tech and Internet giant Google released a new software development kit (SDK) that allows developers to build their own apps for the Chromecast streaming media dongle.
Paypal executive Mike Liberatore leaves firm to become CFO of San Francisco payments startup Clinkle
Mike Liberatore, the former head of Paypal's enterprise and North American financials, left the company to become the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of San Francisco, US-based payments startup Clinkle.
Marlyand, US-based education startup Tales2Go bagged $750,000 in a seed funding round led by NewSchoolds Venture Fund and Maryland Venture Fund to improve students' listening fluency through a "Netflix-like" audiobook app.
Billionaire John Malone is building a cable empire once more as the firms he is backing have announced or are cooking up acquisitions amounting to more than $80 billion, Bloomberg reported.
Amazon will be releasing "Betas," a tech comedy show about app entrepreneurs in the Bay Area as it ramps up its original online programming to compete with Netflix and Hulu.
Former Netflix executive Ariel Tseitlin joins Scale Venture Partners as its newest venture partner. Former Netflix Director of Cloud Solutions Ariel Tseitlin would become one of the newest partners at Scale Venture Partners.
Denmark's Waoo!, Sweden's Com Hem and the UK's Virgin Media are the latest additions to the Netflix galaxy of streaming partners.
Despite the protestations of son Brett, Carl Icahn still pushed on with the sale of shares in Netflix.
