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Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen met in person for the first time just before their Pay TV vs. Internet debate here at South by Southwest Interactiveabout 20 minutes before their session was interrupted by a fire alarm. But they argue like a married couple thats been together for 20 years, complete with sharp barbs. Thats because the debate isnt new: they started that drill online a year ago and neither has budged as best I can tellif anything, their attitudes are more entrenched. HD Net founder Cuban believes in...
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Local newspapers may actually have an easier time charging for content than national and international news brands like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). And whats the biggest threat to paid music? Well, probably not piracy. These were among the assertions by panelists on paidContent2010s The Truth About Subscriptions, who included Steve Brill, co-founder of Journalism Online, David Hyman, CEO of MOG, and Jeff Price, president and publisher of The Sporting News. Price also offered some details on his new subs...
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Tremor Media: Mark Pinney has been promoted to COO from CFO. He joined Tremor Media two years ago, having come from AOLs Platform-A (NYSE: AOL). Earlier, he was CFO and chief privacy officer for Tacoda, also an AOL property.
TVGuide.com: Christy Tanner has been appointed GM, responsible for the companys strategy and day-to-day leadership. She previously was SVP of marketing and editor-in-chief for TVGuide.com. Prior to joining the company, Tanner was director of business development and marketing for Newsw...
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Xconomy San Diego
A few years ago, news articles in Business Week, Nature, and elsewhere described a veritable stampede among big pharmaceutical companies like Roche, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and GlaxoSmithKline to work with contract research organizations in China and India.
As it turns out, some of San Diegos smallest biotech startups have been doing the same thing.
The reasonfor big and small drug development companies alikeis that the scientific capab...
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Things were hopping over the past week in San Diego. Get into the rhythm here.
San Diegos West Wireless Health Institute named Donald Casey chief executive officer. Casey was formerly worldwide chairman of Johnson & Johnsons comprehensive care group. The Institute was founded last year with a $45 million gift from telemarketing and communications entrepreneurs Gary and Mary West.
Tocagen raised nearly $7.8 million in a Series D round that began Fe...
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O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.
In my advocacy around Government 2.0, I've been focused on the idea that government should act like a platform provider rather than a complete solution provider. That is, government should lay down rules of the road, create core functionality that others can build on, and then let the private sector compete to flesh out the offerings.
You'd never think it from the right-wing media hysteria around the administration's health care initiatives, but some of the best thinking about minimal government intervent...
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Tech-minded volunteers quickly pitched in with a variety of communication and data services in the days following the Haiti earthquake. One company -- crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower -- repurposed its service as a text-message translation tool to aid Mission 4636. Crowdflower founder and CEO Lukas Biewald shares his story in this guest post.
Before January 12, I knew little to nothing about Haiti or the role of crowdsourcing in disaster relief. My company, CrowdFlower, offers a crowdsourced labor platf...
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- Digital Inclusion: How Do You Tell? -- [N]either means nor skills are simple binary states. A while ago, I was talking to a young man looking for a job, and asked him why he didnt look online. Because its two buses to get to the public library and you only get half an hour, was his reply. Or being in a library myself and watching an older man asking a bit tentatively if he could use one of the computers and being firmly told that he could book a slot for three days time. He turned away looking crestfal...
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Motricity increased revenues, narrowed its losses and even generated cash in 2009, according to new documents filed today as part of the companys IPO ambitions.
When the company first filed paperwork in January, it reported results for the first nine months of the year. Today, in an updated registration statement filed with the SEC, Motricity reported complete results for 2009 that put the companys performance into a more positive light.
Still, the c...
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Plancast, a startup which offers an easy way for people to share their plans, has raised $800,000 from SoftTechVC, True Ventures, Founders Fund Angel, Zelkova Ventures, as well as a number of angel investors. On Plancast, users post what they plan on doing later; users can track each others accounts and also indicate publicly that they too plan on attending the same event.
Co-founder Mark Hendrickson tells us that the sitewhich launched in Novemberboast...
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No need to duck out of work early, now you can watch March Madness games live over your iPhone, and for the first timeanywhere over AT&Ts 3G network.
The application, which is expected to be available Monday on iTunes, will cost $9.99twice as much as last years version that was limited wi-fi networks. Rob Gelick, the SVP and GM of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile, expects the demand to be there for live streaming video: Last year, we were the first to do a live sporting event with the March Madness app, and since the...
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Apples iPad made its TV advertising debut at the Oscars just now. Heres the clip (via Engadget and Alley Insider):
Disney (NYSE: DIS) says it has reached an agreement in principle with Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) that recognizes the fair value of ABC7 with deal points that we expect to finalize with Cablevision. Translation: Cablevision subs are watching the Oscars after all. The agreementwhich Cablevision didnt even mention in its terse statementcame more than 19 hours after Disney shut off the signal to WABC for some 3.1 million New York-area subs.
WABC explained: Given this movement, we’re pleased to announce that ABC7...
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