From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Jul 07 2009 10:28 AM

How will books evolve? Vook CEO and founder Brad Inman gives us his vision In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Brad Inman, CEO and founder of Vook, a startup that brings life to books in a new way. They discussed how the digital book is changing the industry and the way people consume...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Jul 06 2009 11:48 AM

CEO and Co-founder Bismarck Lepe says "We think we can have up to 300,000 customers today." It was a bad news week for online video businesses with Maven Networks and Joost, but it’s not all doom and gloom and when you look at the financials of nine of the leading companies, as Will Richmond p...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Jul 06 2009 9:48 AM

...and why owning properties to nurture publishing partners is a consideration In this interview, John Battelle, CEO and founder of Federated Media, talks to Bambi Francisco about his search for a new CEO, and why he’d consider owning properties to have a deeper relationship with publishing pa...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Jul 03 2009 4:03 PM

Yahoo slims down; You Tube’s Journalism school; No one is a visionary After being bloated with under-performing assets, Yahoo is definitely going on a strict diet. CEO Carol Bartz has been shutting down units left and right. The latest is its video advertising unit, which was created through t...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Jul 02 2009 8:57 AM

Former president of IAB, Greg Stuart, says semantic technology isn’t close to improving targeting "The promise of semantics is to bring a level of intelligence [to advertising]," said former Interactive Advertising Bureau President Greg Stuart. "It’s not quite there... advertising based on sem...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jul 01 2009 10:14 AM

Serial entrepreneur learns that startups need to build based on the team and avoid shiny objects In this segment of Lessons Learned, Bambi Francisco interviewed Tom Gruber, co-founder and CTO of Siri.BF: You have had a lot of experience as an entrepreneur.This is your third company that you’ve...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Jun 30 2009 11:42 AM

CEO Joe Kennedy on monetization of the personalized Internet radio station Just this month, the Senate passed a bill extending the time for Internet radio stations and music owners to agree on royalty payments. It’s now up to President Obama to sign this bill. At stake is millions of dollars t...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Jun 29 2009 7:28 PM

But what is the real-time search beyond Twitter? With the effluence of Tweets over Michael Jackson’s death and the Iranian presidential election, Twitter was once again vaulted to the spotlight as the communications medium unmatched by no other. Its search engine has spawned a number of real-...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Jun 26 2009 9:09 AM

Andrew Tomkins, Chief Scientist of Yahoo Search on how semantic technology has improved search Bambi Francisco was recently at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference where she interviewed Andrew Tomkins, Chief Scientist of Yahoo Search. Among the questions asked was how is Yahoo’s search posi...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Jun 25 2009 10:36 AM

Visuvi CEO Chris Boone on how an investment flopped due to avarice In this segment of Lessons Learned for entrepreneurs, Bambi Francisco interviewed Chris Boone, founder and CEO of Visuvi, a an image based search engine with patent pending technology in “content based image recognition.”BF: Yo...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jun 24 2009 2:16 PM

Siri co-founder and CTO Tom Gruber on turning your iPhone into a personal concierge We’re a long way from Ask Jeeves, the butler assistant that helped you search and find stuff on the Web. Siri, which recently came out of stealth mode, is a virtual assitant on the iPhone. Sure, it's not s...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jun 24 2009 1:49 AM

Siri co-founder and CTO Tom Gruber on turning your iPhone into a personal concierge We’re a long way from Ask Jeeves, the butler assistant that helped you search and find stuff on the Web. Siri, which recently came out of stealth mode, is a virtual assitant on the iPhone. Sure, it's not s...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Jun 22 2009 5:07 PM

Teamed with Google, Fandango, and others, HP hopes to revolutionize printing Books are quickly being replaced by less expensive digital incarnations released on the Kindle platform.  Newspapers are folding as consumers read stories online and on their mobile devices.  The entire print industry...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Jun 22 2009 8:38 AM

Speed is everything; Killer teams will be the ones to execute; Don’t be afraid to fail In this segment of Lessons Learned, Bambi Francisco interviews Dennis Fong, founder of Raptr, a social platform where people can play games. Fong founded four companies, after launching his entrepreneurial c...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, Jun 20 2009 1:14 PM

What am I Missy, Episode 24 MySpace has slashed its bloated staff by 30%. It is often said that being smaller means being more nimble and hence innovative. And, the startup culture of innovation is just what new CEO Owen Van Natta is trying to usher in. It must have been tough to make that har...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Jun 19 2009 10:43 AM

How Thomson Reuters OpenCalais is helping Huffington Post and CNet repurpose content At the Semantic Technology Conference, which drew about 1,200 people, one of the big questions that came to mind is: Can everyone agree to some standards about the understanding and definition of human knowled...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jun 17 2009 11:31 AM

CEO and co-founder, Jeff Smith, on expanding Smule’s business model In the fourth month after launching its first product, Smule, a maker of popular iPhone apps, was only supposed to make $30,000 in revenue. Or so, CEO and co-founder Jeff Smith thought. Instead, the company brought in $300,000...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jun 17 2009 11:31 AM

Fundraiser part 2

Fundraiser part 2

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Jun 16 2009 10:50 AM

CEO and co-founder Jeff Smith on how Smule is iterating on its apps and the audience it’s attracting When the iPhone first launched, few saw the vision of turning it into a musical instrument. Today, Smule, the startup that's turned the iPhone into a flute, is approaching 1.5 million cust...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Jun 15 2009 10:24 AM

Obstacles the 'YouTube of flash games' may need to think about Heyzap is an emerging startup, recently funded with between $500,000 and $1 million in a round, led by Union Square Ventures. It’s also a graduate of the popular Y Combinator program. Heyzap wants to be the YouTube of fla...