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Buzzd Gets Series A Funding To Bring Real Time Updates of City Happenings To Mobile Generation
April 24, 2008
Buzzd, a location-based cityguide and social network on the mobile device, announced that it has completed its Series A funding round, led by Greycroft Partners and Monitor Ventures.


WideOrbit Announces New Release of Industry-Leading WO Traffic Software
April 14, 2008
WideOrbit Now Live at 1000+ Stations and Networks


WideOrbit Announces New Suite of Products for Media Sales Professionals
April 14, 2008
WO AccountPro Provides Comprehensive Customer Relationship and Sales Management; Real-Time Integration with WO Traffic for Seamless Operations


Florical Automation & WideOrbit Traffic in BXF Harmony
April 8, 2008
Bi-directional dynamic live log capability now available between WideOrbit’s WO Traffic & Florical’s AirBoss


V-ENABLE and Buzzd Partner To Give The '411' on Location-Based Nightlife Accessible Via Cellphone To Directory...
April 2, 2008
New partnership will bring content from Buzzd Featuring Content from CitySearch, Flavorpill and User Generated Picks to the FreeMobile411 Service


Multiplatform Lifestyle & Business Company Ladies Who Launch Hires Kate Rodler From Entrepreneur Magazine as...
March 31, 2008
Victoria Colligan and Beth Schoenfeldt, co-founders of Ladies Who Launch, announced today they have hired Kate Rodler, from Entrepreneur Magazine.


Announcing the Official Launch of VoterVoter.com
March 27, 2008
Non-Partisan Service Gives Power to Individuals, Makes it Possible for Citizens to Place Political Advertisements Directly on Television


DDS MediaOcean and WideOrbit Integrate Media Sales and Traffic Systems
March 26, 2008
Seamless End-to-End Connectivity between Sales Organization, Traffic Department and Agencies


Buzzd Wins Top Entertainment Award At Nokia’s Mobile Rules! 08 Awards
March 25, 2008
Location-Based Mobile Arts and Entertainment Search Service Buzzd Receives Second Place Overall Out of 1,000 Applicants


M5 Networks Surpasses Two Hundred IT Consultants Offering Voice as a Service
March 10, 2008
IT Consultants Incorporate Voice as a Service as Part of a Complete Managed Services Offering for Clients


M5 Networks Partners with Holdcom to Add Professional Audio Capabilities to M5’s Voice as a Service
March 4, 2008
M5 Improves Clients’ Audio Brands with Holdcom’s Industry Leading Voice Recording Services


WideOrbit Receives New Funding from Khosla Ventures, Greycroft Partners and Hearst Corporation
February 28, 2008
Company Adds New Executives –Chief Marketing Officer Steve Sommer and Senior Vice President of Engineering Igor Tsyganskiy


Telecommunications Veteran Expands Availability of M5 Voice as a Service to Philadelphia
February 25, 2008
M5 Networks Taps Doug Cooper to Lead Regional Sales Efforts


Vuze CEO to Speak at FCC Hearubg on Broadband Network Management
February 21, 2008
Vuze will be the Voice of Innovation for the Industry; Consumers Everywhere can Voice Opinions via Video Testimony


Buzzd Sweeps MobileMonday Global Peer Awards at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
February 13, 2008
Buzzd, an emerging location based mobile entertainment service that provides real-time information for bars, clubs and restaurants, has just won three MobileMonday Barcelona Peer Awards.


ImageSpan to Deliver Rights-Cleared Video for Dealer.com’s Award-Winning SmartSites™
February 12, 2008
ImageSpan’s Pioneering CurbStream Builds Momentum in the Auto Industry as Dealer.com Offers Local Area Content Creation Service to a Network of More than 3,000 Auto Dealer Websites


M5 Networks Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine’s 10th Annual Product of the Year Award
February 7, 2008
M5 Sales Engine Recognized for Outstanding Innovation


Helio Hooks Up With Buzzd to Offer Location-Based Arts and Entertainment for the Mobile Generation
February 6, 2008
Helio today announced their partnership with Buzzd, a local entertainment service that provides real-time information for bars, clubs and restaurants to Helio members based on their location.


ImageSpan and WEVA Bring Licensing-With-A-Click TO WEVA, World’s Largest Professional Videographer Trade...
January 31, 2008
ImageSpan’s LicenseStream Service Gives WEVA Members the Ability to License Digital Content via the Web


M5 Networks Expands Availability of “Voice as a Service” with Launch of National Partners Program
January 28, 2008
Leading IT Consultants All Covered and Single Path Join National Partners Program to Offer Voice as a Service


ImageSpan Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner
January 22, 2008
Recognized for game-changing strategies in advertising, marketing, and promotion


Mockumentary Meets Motion Capture With New Web Series and Online Game
January 9, 2008
Check out Webisodes on Gametrailers.com and Spike.com; Play MoCap Man: Men with Balls Game at www.MoCapLLC.com


M5 Networks Celebrates another Milestone with the Addition of its 700th Client
January 9, 2008
M5 Announces the Addition of Crunch Fitness and Reports High Levels of National Growth in 2007


The Huffington Post’s Fundrace Launches Feature To Map Giving to Presidential Candidates
January 1, 2008
The Huffington Post’s FundRace, an innovative website which makes it easy to track individual contributions to the presidential campaigns, announced today a new mapping feature which shows which cities, neighborhoods and blocks are giving to which candidates.


The Huffington Post Launches Technology and News Features to Enhance Up-To-The Minute News and Opinion Delivery
December 20, 2007
The Huffington Post, a leading news and opinion site, announced today a suite of new technology offerings to enhance its already user-friendly interface.


M5 Networks Gives Businesses Visibility into Sales Processes with New Voice as a Service Solution
December 10, 2007
M5 Networks, the market leader in delivering phone system functionality as a service, today announced that Andiamo Partners, a premier information technology staffing and consulting firm, has integrated M5’s newest On-Demand Solution, Sales Engine, for improved visibility into the performance of its sales and recruiting team.


Vuze Inks Exclusize Distribution Rights For Popular Anime Series Never Before Available Outside Japan
December 10, 2007
Vuze now offers the largest catalog of high-res, licensed anime programming for free online


ImageSpan Teams With TAKKLE to Deliver Dynamic Video for High School Sports Social Networking Sites
December 4, 2007
ImageSpan’s 10,000-Strong CurbStream Network Captures Video for SI-TAKKLE Top 100 Player Rankings


Vuze, The Leading Online Platform for High-Res and HD Video, Signs with UTA For Representation
November 29, 2007
Vuze, the fast-growing online entertainment platform with an established audience of 13 million users, has signed a mutually exclusive agreement with leading Hollywood talent agency United Talent Agency (UTA) to serve as their agent for business development and representation.


Albie Hecht's Worldwide Biggies Inc. extends agreement with Spike TV to executive produce annual video game awards
November 28, 2007
Spike TV’s Fifth Anniversary Video Game Awards Premieres December 9th


Worldwide Biggies Inc. obtains full option rights for captivating adventure property
November 27, 2007
Tom Swift - Feature Film Planned to Launch Multi-Platform Franchise


Vuze Passes an Installed Base Milestone OF 10 Million Viewers and Opens Its Internet Publishing Platform to Networks...
October 9, 2007
High-res entertainment platform’s game-changing move allows flexible, monetized content distribution to its global installed base


ImageSpan to Bring Simple-to-Use Content Licensing to More than 100 Million Designers Worldwide
October 9, 2007
ImageSpan Technology Gives Every Content Creator the Capability to License, Sell Digital Content Created with Popular Adobe Creative Suite 3 Software


Worldwide Biggies Inc. and Act III Licensing Team Up To Release A Series Of Digital Games In Celebration of the 20th...
October 2, 2007
Worldwide Biggies to Develop Innovative The Princess Bride Games to be Released Beginning Fall 2007


The Huffington Post Names Betsy L. Morgan CEO
October 2, 2007
The Huffington Post, a leading news and opinion site, announced today that Betsy L. Morgan, Senior Vice President at CBS Interactive and the General Manager of CBSNews.com, has been named The Huffington Post’s Chief Executive Officer.


M5 Networks Ranks 19th in Deloitte's 2007 Technology Fast 50 Program for New York
September 20, 2007
Company Attributes More Than 728 Percent Revenue Growth from 2002 to 2006 to Growing Awareness of Voice as a Service Technology


Digital Entertainment Studio Worldwide Biggies Inc. Forms Powerhouse Senior Management Team
August 13, 2007
Former Nickelodeon and Spike TV Prexy Albie Hecht Assembles Renowned Executive Team Led By Scott Webb, Blaine Graboyes, Christopher Romero, Robert Gibilterra and Kari Kim to Spearhead Company’s Inventive, Multi-platform Strategy


TMZ.com and Worldwide Biggies Joins Forces To Launch Innovative Online Game Combining Celebrity Gossip...
August 8, 2007
Entertainment Junkies Satisfy their Celebrity Hunger with Interactive Game that Pits Star Against Star in the Ultimate Celebrity Showdown. Official Celebrity Fantasy League and Unique Star Vs. Star Card Game Launches at www.StarVsStar.com


Albie Hecht's Worldwide Biggies Closes $9 Million Series A Financing Round Co-Led by NBC Universal and Platform Equity
August 6, 2007
Hearst Corporation, Alan Patricof’s Greycroft Partners and Prism VentureWorks also Lend Major Financial Backing to Inventive Digital Entertainment Studio


ImageSpan and Zimmerman Advertising Partner to Bring the Next Generation of Image Licensing and Local Area...
June 25, 2007
ImageSpan Inc.™, a licensing and billing automation platform for digital media, and Zimmerman Advertising, an Omnicom Group agency, announced their partnership to embed ImageSpan’s licensing automation technology, LicenseStream, into Zimmerman’s Pick-n-Click Ads.com™, the world’s first virtual advertising agency.


ImageSpan Partners With Visible World To Build Revolutionary Marketplace For On-Demand Customization of Ads
June 11, 2007
ImageSpan’s New Automated Content and Copyright Management and Licensing Platform Will Combine with Visible World’s IntelliSpot Dashboard to Meet Advertisers’ Demands for Dynamic and Affordable Localized Content


The Huffington Post’s OffTheBus Partners With NewsTrust To Evaluate Coverage of the Presidential Campaign
June 2, 2007
The Huffington Post’s OffTheBus, a citizen-powered online news organization, is partnering with NewsTrust (www.newstrust.net), a nonprofit social news site promoting quality journalism, to analyze media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.


The Huffington Post Launches Green Section in Partnership with Discovery Communications’ TreeHugger and Planet Green
May 28, 2007
The Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com), a leading news and opinion site, is launching “HuffPost Green”, a new section on the site offering green content in partnership with Discovery’s TreeHugger, the popular sustainability media outlet, and Planet Green, Discovery’s 24-hour eco-lifestyle television network.


Worldwide Biggies Launches Ground-Breaking User-Generated Online Dog Competition
April 30, 2007
Users Submit and Vote for their Doggone Favorite Pooch in a Variety of Talent Categories Animal Rescue Shelters to be Supported by the Worldwide Fido Community


ImageSpan Secures Series A Financing, Led by Greycroft Partners
February 15, 2007
Company Rounds out Board of Directors


Takkle Announces Launch Of High School Sports Social Networking Site
December 11, 2006
TAKKLE, Inc., (www.takkle.com) the premier online social network for high school athletes, today launched its nationwide service to connect high school athletes of all sports. In conjunction with its nationwide launch, TAKKLE also announced a strategic alliance with the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED franchise.


Sports Illustrated Moves Deeper Into Digital Domain
December 11, 2006
Sports Illustrated is entering the developing sports and social networking area, partnering with high school participatory sports site Takkle.com, which is launching this week.


ImageSpan and PLUS Coalition Streamline Image Licensing Process
November 30, 2006
Increased clarity, reduced complexity and better protection for everyone involved in image licensing, worldwide


VoIP Systems Co. M5 Networks Takes $7.75M In Series A
September 19, 2006
M5 Networks Inc., a provider of outsourced IP phone systems, said it has raised $7.75 million in a Series A round of venture funding. The round, which closed on Thursday, was led by Edison Venture Fund, and included participation by Greycroft Partners and Milestone Venture Partners.


M5 Networks Secures $7.75 Million in Expansion Capital
September 18, 2006
M5 Networks, one of the country's leading outsourced IP phone system providers, today announced that it has raised $7.75 million in expansion capital. The investment was led by Edison Venture Fund, and also included Greycroft Partners and Milestone Venture Partners.


Worldwide Biggies Signs Deal With Illion Animation Studios To Produce Studio's First Animated Theatrical Release
February 6, 2006
Joe Stillman, Oscar - Nominated Writer of 'Shrek,' To Pen 'Planet One'