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.
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US filmmaker Freddie Wong breaks Indiegogo's record for web series with highest crowdfunding contributions
Seattle, Washington-based filmmaker Freddie Wong broke Indiegogo's record for web series crowdfunding when he gathered $900,907 in total contributions on Saturday night for his Internet-based show Video Game High School (VGHS).
Amazon to rename European streaming video service LoveFilm as Prime Instant Video
Seattle, US-based e-commerce and digital media giant Amazon will rename its London-based streaming video service LoveFilm as Prime Instant Video in Germany and the UK starting February 26.
Google Ventures' Rich Miner to join California-based Crittercism's board
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.
New York's Docurated nabs $3.75M in funding to help companies index files
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.
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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.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Netflix was in early-stage talks with US cable companies to make its streaming video service available to subscribers using their set-top boxes.
US District Judge Samuel Conti dismissed a court case filed by the shareholders of Netflix Inc due to failure to resolve shortcomings.
Retailer Tesco would try to compete in the digital downloads market through the release of its own iPad-like tablet computer.
Google discontinued its Chromecast-Netflix subscription promo after receiving "overwhelming demand".
