Superfish Raises $4 Million for Visual Product Search

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Mark Hefflinger
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San Mateo, Calif. – Superfish, a developer of visual product
search technology, has raised $4 million in a third round of venture capital
financing.

Investors included Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Tamir Fishman
Ventures, Individuals’ Venture Fund and Xenia Venture Capital.

San Mateo,
Calif.-based Superfish’s visual search platform includes Window Shopper, a
browser add-on that lets users search for identical or similar products across
thousands of sites.

Since launching in April, the service has attracted over 1
million active users.

The company will use the funds to expand operations,
build channel partnerships, and for further product development.

 

Related Links:
http://www.superfish.com

AOL Taps Vuguru to Produce Six Original Web Video Series

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Mark Hefflinger
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New York – AOL (NYSE: AOL) on Wednesday announced a content partnership
with Vuguru, the digital production studio founded by former Disney head
Michael Eisner. Under the deal, Vuguru will develop and produce at least six
original scripted online video series for distribution by AOL. "Each
project will be produced as a continuous story of approximately 90 minutes in
length with cliff-hangers or natural breaks so that they can be segmented for
episodic distribution," the companies said.

 

Related Links:
http://tinyurl.com/274tntf

http://www.vuguru.com

BlackBerry PlayBook to Ship in Q1 With Sub-$500 Price Tag

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Mark Hefflinger
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Waterloo, Canada – Research in Motion’s (RIM) (NASD: RIMM) new BlackBerry
PlayBook tablet computer will begin shipping in North American in the first quarter
of 2011 and sport a sub-$500 price tag, co-CEO Jim Balsillie told Bloomberg. By
comparison, Apple’s least expensive iPad costs $499. RIM plans to expand
distribution overseas in the second quarter, to countries including South
Korea.

 

Related Links:
http://tinyurl.com/2blg7os
(Bloomberg)

http://us.blackberry.com/playbook-tablet

Samsung Galaxy Tab Goes On Sale From T-Mobile

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Mark Hefflinger
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Los Angeles – Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablet computer has gone
on sale from T-Mobile’s website, a day before Verizon and four days before
Sprint are scheduled to begin offering the device, CNET News.com reported. The
T-Mobile site is offering the Galaxy Tab for $399 with a two-year data service
contract, or for $599 without a contract.

 

Related Links:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20022328-17.html

http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com

Facebook Launches 'Places' Feature for BlackBerry

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Mark Hefflinger
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Palo Alto, Calif. – Facebook has expanded availability of
its new Places feature to RIM’s (NASD: RIMM) BlackBerry platform, in the form of a software
update to its mobile application. The service is already available for iPhone
and Android platforms.

 

Related Links:
http://mashable.com/2010/11/10/facebook-blackberry-places

DISH Google TV Offering: $179 for Set-top, Plus $4 Monthly Fee

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Mark Hefflinger
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Englewood, Colo. – Satellite TV provider DISH Network (NASD: DISH) on
Wednesday announced the availability of its Google TV integration package,
which includes a $179 Logitech Revue with Google (NASD: GOOG) TV set-top box, and will
require DISH subscribers to pay an additional "DVR integration
service" fee of $4 per month. The service will let viewers search across
TV, DVR, video-on-demand and Web video content.

 

Related Links:
http://tinyurl.com/27dgwep

http://www.dishnetwork.com/googletv

U.K. Retail Chain Sainsbury's to Launch Music Download Store

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Mark Hefflinger
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London – Sainsbury’s, the third-largest U.K. retail store
chain, plans to launch a music download store this month, Billboard reports.
The company recently launched a website where consumers may purchase CDs, DVDs
and video games, and will add around 500,000 tracks from all four major labels
for the launch of the download store. The store will also add movies and
e-books in the next year.

 

Related Links:
http://tinyurl.com/25oba8h
(Billboard)

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk

BitTorrent Expands App Studio, Distributes Movie via P2P

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Mark Hefflinger
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San Francisco – File-sharing software purveyors BitTorrent
on Wednesday released an update to its μTorrent application, which expands the
App Studio — a development framework that lets programmers build extensions on
the platform — to the application’s 65 million users. The company also
launched a promotion for "Four Eyed Monsters," a film that will use
BitTorrent for free distribution.

 

Related Links:
http://tinyurl.com/2e2kwbs

http://tinyurl.com/24l5vwe
(TorrentFreak)

http://www.bittorrent.com

The White House Debuts Online Virtual Tour

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Mark Hefflinger
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Washington – Months in the making, the White House on
Tuesday launched an interactive White House tour, available at the link below.
The tour lets site visitors watch exclusive "Inside the White House"
videos and tour many of the most popular areas of the facility, including the
West Wing, residence, East Wing and South Lawn. "You’re invited to do
everything from cook with the New Orleans Saints in the White House kitchen, to
peek inside the Situation Room, to watch the Jonas Brothers perform in the East
Room and tour the first ever beehive on White House grounds with beekeeper
Charlie Brandt," wrote Kori Schulman, the White House deputy director of
digital content.

 

Related Links:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/interactive-tour

U.K. High Court Grants Review of Digital Economy Act

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Mark Hefflinger
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London – The U.K. High Court on Wednesday granted two ISPs’
request for a judicial review of provisions of the country’s Digital Economy
Act that deal with copyright infringement, according to published reports.

U.K.
ISPs TalkTalk and BT filed their request for a review in July, arguing the law
was rushed through with insufficient scrutiny, and may run afoul of Europe’s
e-commerce directive.

They also argued the law unfairly targets only larger
ISPs with provisions that require them to disconnect repeat file-swappers.

"We are very pleased that the court has recognised that our concerns about
the copyright infringement provisions in the Digital Economy Act should be
considered in a full hearing," BT and TalkTalk said in a statement.

"It is important for everyone involved — copyright owners, consumers,
ISPs and institutions like libraries and universities — to have certainty on
the law before proceeding."

 

Related Links:
http://tinyurl.com/396kdl5
(Financial Times)

http://tinyurl.com/38j3uqk
(Music Ally)

http://tinyurl.com/3x6dtn3
(DMW previous coverage)

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