Ooyala Sets Up R&D Center In Singapore To Chase Mobile Audiences In Asia
Video services provider Ooyala is setting up an R&D operations in Singapore, and is hiring researchers and data scientists for the facility. The company provides video technology to media companies and telcos, enabling them to stream their content online such as the Australian Open, or helping ESPN embed videos in tweets.It claims to have a collective viewership of about 200 million across 130 countries each month. Ooyala has had a small staff of four in Singapore since last year, but the new facility will bump up its presence here to about 20 when it’s operational in 2014, said CEO, Jay Fulcher. The center here will focus on researching localized products for Asia, as the company expands outside of the US. Ooyala will keep its core engineering team in Mountain View, where most of its 300 staff are. It also maintains offices in Sydney, Tokyo, LA, New York and London, with teams of about ten in each of them. Fulcher wouldn’t say how much the company is ploughing into the center here, ...
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Chicago Tribune Live: Barbara Byrd-Bennett
Live video: The Chicago Public Schools CEO discusses what's ahead for city schools.
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YC-Backed Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M From Andreessen Horowitz, Highland Capital & Others
Filepicker.io, the Y Combinator-backed "filesystem as a service," is today rebranding itself as "Ink File Picker," a name which, explains CEO Brett van Zuiden, stands for something much larger than the former, more product-focused title. In addition, the company is announcing a $1.8 million seed round of funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Highland Capital Partners.
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TheLadders Debuts Its First-Ever iOS App, As It Aims To Make Being ‘Mobile Last' Also Mobile Best
The mobile wave has been cresting for several years now, so when a decade-old web company is only now debuting its first ever native mobile app, it's a little late to the game. The folks at TheLadders, which is launching its first iOS app this morning, understand that -- but they are angling to make their "mobile last" strategy work in their favor in the long run. It is indeed a beautiful app, and you can see it demonstrated by TheLadders' co-founder and CEO Alex Douzet in the video embedded above.
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Lawsuit Filed in Puerto Rico Slaying of US Banker
The widow of a banking executive slain in Puerto Rico has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the bank's CEO and other high-ranking officials.
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