It’s been a little while since we heard from Josh James. Having raised boatloads of money, the Omniture founder who bolted Adobe last year bought a small start-up in his native Utah and transformed it into Domo Technologies, a data analytics company. That was July. Wednesday, Domo will announce that it has raised another batch of money, and
Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $20 million in new funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). This round brings total investment in Domo to $63 million. Previous investors include Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway and David Lee of SV Angel, and Hummer
Rio Caraeff doesn’t run a normal start-up. His two-year-old Vevo, which is a video distributor for the music labels, took in $150 million in the past year. The trick (besides having access to all that content from day one)? To ignore the media industry wisdom about scarcity, he said. Here’s his interview at D: Dive Into Media today
We’re live at The Crunchies Awards at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Once again we’ve partnered with fellow blogs VentureBeat and GigaOm to celebrate the best technology achievements of 2011. Those of you at home can watch the live stream here. The show starts at 7:30 pm.
Is there a culture problem at News Corp.? COO Chase Carey doesn’t think so. Onstage at D:Dive Into Media Tuesday afternoon, Carey said the practices behind the phone hacking scandal that’s troubled the company since mid-2011 don’t extend beyond the publications at which they originated. Below, video highlights from the session
Thomas Tull knows about creating big movies. The next step, the Legendary Entertainment CEO says, is figuring out new ways to make sure would-be fans are getting excited about the next film, and the one after that. Speaking at D: Dive Into Media, Tull said the company wants to use social media to connect more deeply with those who are interested
Turns out videos of dogs on skateboards are far more lucrative when they’re part of a dog-lovers channel or a skateboard channel. Or both. In the D: Dive Into Media video highlights reel below, YouTube boss Salar Kamangar explains why.
For months we’ve been waiting on Razer’s Blade notebook, a $2800, 17-inch beast that we weren’t sure whether to laud or mock. It’s just that it’s kind of a strange thing to see making a big debut when people are more cautious than usual with their money, and PC gaming (as ever) is being declared dead. But after our
Give ESPN President John Skipper points for consistency. He wants to make ESPN available on every device and screen. What he doesn’t want to do is give it away for free. Here are video highlights from his interview with Ina Fried at our D: Dive Into Media conference.
Ever heard of David Ebersman? You should, and this week you will, given the self-effacing exec has been one of the prime movers behind what is expected to be the blockbuster offering of Web 2.0: Facebook’s impending IPO. And while the social networking site’s movietastic co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and its smooth-operator COO
“It certainly has been a difficult year,” said News Corp. COO Chase Carey, referring to the public discovery that U.K. publications owned by News Corp. had hacked into cellphones in order to advance their stories. Now that the dust is beginning to settle, he added, “Our priority is to make things right.” Was phone hacking
When it first debuted in 2009, Vevo aspired to be a “Hulu for music.” Today, it’s exactly that: the second largest video property on the Web in the U.S., a title that — you guessed it — was once held by Hulu. Further evidence of the company’s success: The impressive financials announced by Vevo president and
When it first debuted in 2009, Vevo aspired to be a “Hulu for music.” Today, it’s exactly that: the second largest video property on the Web in the U.S., a title that — you guessed it — was once held by Hulu. Further evidence of the company’s success: The impressive financials announced by Vevo president and
Back when we were kids, cutting-edge publishing technology was pretty much limited to “choose your own adventure” books. Coliloquy, a start-up demoing at D: Dive into Media, is running with that idea, in the hopes of creating a new kind of fiction-reading experience, built on the Amazon Kindle developer platform. Books released using
Back when we were kids, cutting-edge publishing technology was pretty much limited to “choose your own adventure” books. Coliloquy, a start-up demoing at D: Dive into Media, is running with that idea, in the hopes of creating a new kind of fiction-reading experience, built on the Amazon Kindle developer platform. Books released using
Outgoing Warner Music Group Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. had a lot to say on the D: Dive Into Media stage today. In a wide-ranging interview with host Peter Kafka, Bronfman talked about the fate of EMI, the value of services like Spotify, and what he would change about the recording industry’s deal with Apple. “Apple from day one
Proust, a social-journaling service owned by IAC, was slated to shut down today, after just a six-month run. But Proust isn’t shutting down, after all: The service sent an email to users saying that it will remain active due to an outpouring of support from the Proust community. The service is now independent of IAC, and is being run by
Two weeks ago, the excellent Building Windows 8 blog posted an in-depth look at the upcoming operating system’s new file system, ReFS. It reminded me of the promise of so many years ago that OS X would be changing its file system from HFS+ to ZFS. Not a promise many remember or even cared about at the time, but it was, in fact,
As passionate as superhero fans are about their characters, Thomas Tull says those involved with making films have work to do to truly tap that enthusiasm. “If you sell movie tickets or DVDs, like we do, for a living, you don’t really have a customer relationship,” the Legendary Entertainment CEO said, speaking at the D: Dive
Entrepreneur Mark Cuban once said “only a moron would buy YouTube,” the implication being that Google was exactly that for purchasing the popular video site. That was back in 2006. Six years later, the site is a juggernaut — by far, the largest online video content property around. And Salar Kamangar is the guy charged with ensuring its
Investors seem pretty disappointed with Amazon’s fourth quarter results (as of 3pm Pacific, the company’s stock is down 8.6 percent in after-hours training), yet for most of this afternoon’s analyst conference call, that disappointment was largely hidden in the normal stream of numbers and financial terminology. Finally, a few
This past holiday season, many consumers ditched their digital cameras in favor of smartphones, a new company-sponsored report from Photobucket says. Data from the popular photo-sharing service shows the number of mobile photo app users who use the apps at least once a day doubled to 42 percent, up from 20 percent midyear in 2011. Meanwhile, only
Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak offered more details this afternoon during an analyst earnings call about the company’s disappointing fourth quarter When it comes to physical media, Szkutak said the biggest hit to revenue came in the area of video game sales, which includes both console and game sales (but not games sold digitally, say from
According to several sources close to the situation, the Facebook board has been meeting early this afternoon at its Silicon Valley HQ to give the go-ahead to a massive initial public offering. Facebook is expected to file regulatory documents as early as tomorrow morning for what will certainly be one of the most-watched IPOs in tech in recent
Not long after its CEO, Jason Kilar, left the stage after his talk with Peter Kafka at D: Dive Into Media today, Hulu revealed a teaser for the TV ad that will promote the online video service during Sunday’s Super Bowl. Here, Hulu returns to the campaign it launched in 2009, which starred Alec Baldwin and involved an alien plan to turn
ESPN isn’t much for cannibalization, said its new president John Skipper, speaking today at D: Dive Into Media. That is, ESPN thinks it can preserve its traditional premium fees from paid TV distributors, while also making money from online offerings. Where some in television have worried about “turning analog dollars into digital
You might remember the scene in The Hurt Locker where some soldiers are ambushed by a sniper and must do a little return sniping. That process of spotting, adjusting the sights, and altering the bullet’s ballistic trajectory bit by bit and degree by degree may soon no longer be necessary: Sandia Labs has developed a bullet with a built-in
In his interview at D: Dive Into Media today, New Yorker editor David Remnick said that mobile devices, even phones, are creating new opportunities for long-form content. Remnick said that reading on a three-inch screen isn’t his favorite way to enjoy a magazine, but noted that some people are reading Dickens that way on the
Welcome, kids, to TIL – Today I Learned. Today’s TIL is “Don’t post your correspondence with AppleCare representatives or Apple will totally tell the government on you.” David Boles had a nice Apple monitor that died on him. He had a little trouble transferring AppleCare coverage to his new monitor after it pooped
Apps and digital editions, how-to content and litter boxes, were all topics of discussion in a D: Dive Into Media session with Martha Stewart herself and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia CEO Lisa Gersh. Hear more from Stewart, who talked about her history as a longtime early adopter of technology, in this edited video from the session. And as a
