Last October, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook, suddenly placing Facebook’s value at a lofty $15 billion. Now, we see that revenues for 2007 came to around $150 million, while expenses still leave the company with a negative cash flow that could be as high as $150 million next ...

Since I’m in the video business I wanted to find out what the latest is in video advertising. Jayant Kadambi, CEO of YuMe networks shows me the latest. If you’re in the video business you’ll want to watch this one.

Charlene Li, senior analyst with Forrester Research, talks with John Ince about how social networks are creating new forms of economic and social power for users. She advises would be investors to spread their bets widely in relatively small traunches. She sees the most promise in platforms that enable consumer ...

Nancy Bhagat is the vice president for the sales and marketing group and director of integrated marketing at Intel. She joined MarketingVoices’ Jennifer Jones a little background on the Upload Lounge that Intel provided for the first time this past year at the Fall IDF. Every year ...

It’s no surprise that online videos are growing in quantity, quality and audience reach. Podaddies helps video producers make money from their video creations through an advertising network in conjunction with the major video hosting sites. I had lunch with Podaddies founders Nate Pagel, CEO, and Robert Boyle, CTO, ...

Harish founded Smile Interactive, the company that incubated Quasar, one of India’s top digital advertising agencies. It’s also behind Tyroo, an advertising network that Yahoo recently bought a substantial part of. It also built the technology behind MakeMyTrip, India’s biggest travel portal.

In this podcast, Harish talks ...

Sam Sethi is a London-based technology entrepreneur and consultant. Sam recently launched BlogNation, a worldwide network of blogs focusing on Web 2.0, mobile and enterprise startup space in 22 countries around the world (except the United States).

Sam was known in the blogosphere for the good coverage he did at ...

Here my editor, Rocky, picks out the best of the interview and demo that I did with Tod Sacerdoti, founder of Brightroll, where he discusses his advertising network’s approach to video advertising.

Tod Sacerdoti, founder and CEO of Brightroll — an advertising distribution network — shows off the latest advertising for video and Web 2.0 sites.

Manish Vij is the co-founder of Quasar Media, an integrated online interactive agency. Prior to starting Quasar Media he worked with India’s largest portal, Rediff.com, for over 5 years. He has been recognized as one of the prominent online media professionals in the country.

In the last two years he has ...

Revision3’s David Prager stopped by the Hatfactory today and spoke with us about the growing Internet media company he co-founded. Revision3 focuses on original content created mostly in-house geared towards geek and technology savvy audiences. Revision3 currently has a network of roughly a dozen Internet distributed shows including ...

This podcast highlights some of the threats and dangers Symantec reported on in January 2007 and offers suggestions on how to stay protected.

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David Hornik is a general partner at August Capital. As early-stage investors in companies like Microsoft, August knows what makes great companies, and Hornik serves as its social media expert. He sits on six boards including Six Apart. Hornik was also the first VC to blog and to ...

We visited the San Francisco offices of Ecast, makers of network connected digital jukeboxes. A dot-com bust survivor, Ecast is now thriving with over 10,000 digital jukeboxes in bars and nightclubs around the world. We speak with David Schmidt, senior director of advertising product marketing, and Joshua Pollack, product ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast, brought to you by SAVVIS, Andy Schroepfer, president & founder of Tier 1 Research, discusses his view on the hosting industry, including the market forecast and segmentation, future growth areas, and how the buyer — not the supplier — is driving the future of ...

The first amendment has always been nettlesome, but a thriving online community of bloggers is proof that excercising constitutional freedoms can be healthy and profitable. Blogs they also have a tendency to rock the boat, raising new challenges for corporations — and the courts — to navigate. This case began ...

Intel is one of many companies attending CES 2007 in Las Vegas next week. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier visited with Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Sean Maloney to explore top tech-lifestyle trends for 2007 and the impact of new innovations coming from the chipmaker.

Last Monday, Veer Bothra (seen here on the left) asked me to join in the monthly mixer he organises, called Mobile Monday. It’s loosely tied in with an eponymous event held around the world, an opportunity for mobile platform stakeholders to meet and talk about change … and more of the same.

Veer wanted me to talk about podcasting, not the nuts and bolts, but where it’s at and its relevance to the radio paradigm. That’s a juicy opportunity, I thought to myself, and so found myself making the difficult journey to North Mumbai (needs planning and a sort of instinctive feel for which combination of segments and modes of transport make it the least painful overall).

LOS ANGELES, September 27, 2006 (PodTech News) — Control Room, formerly Network Live and MSN, Microsoft’s web portal, yesterday announced a multi-year content agreement to distribute live concert performances online. The deal gives Control Room, producer of last year’s Live 8, several global distribution platforms, including the nearly 465 million monthly MSN visitors

LOS ANGELES, September 27, (PodTech News) — Wallop Technologies on Tuesday announced its own social networking site to compete against such heavyweights as MySpace, Friendster and others. Devoid of advertising, the new site debuted at DEMOfall 2006 in San Diego hyping a Flash-based multimedia experience to sepearate itself from the rest of the crowd. The company is relying on

Web 2.0 is at a fairly nascent stage in India. There are a bunch of India centric Web 2.0 products (or applications) that currently exist but that bunch is steadily growing. So, now you have a, not too insignificant number of techies, working zealously to create India centric social networking applications, mashups, aggregators, filters, web office products etc. But have you wondered about the profile of these people, who are leading the charge of the Web 2.0 brigade in India?

Talk about a Billion Dollar Baby for News Corp and what a week so far for Google. Google is putting out a series of big announcements this week. I think that the MySpace announcement in combination with the Viacom deal is big for Google. ...

What a day… McKinsey, a famed management consulting company, reports continued massive decline in TV spending and then Google announces their Viacom deal. My take - no one watches traditional TV anymore.

The Google / Viacom deal is good news for PodTech.net and all the emerging new video ...

MENLO PARK, July 26, 2006 (PodTech News) –”It’s going to be advertising,” said YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said, when asked how he was going to make his company profitable, though he stressed any additional ads on YouTube will not disrupt the user experience. Hurley spoke on a panel on consumer-generated ...