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Streaming video site Ustream has just pulled in a massive new round of funding: $75 million. This second round was led by SoftBank , a Japanese telecom giant. Previously, the site had raised just below $13 million in funding, which came from its Series A in 2008 and its angel round in late 2007. Perhaps even crazier is that the service is saying that additional funding commitments are pending from other investors in the U.S. and Asia, so the round will likely actually be larger than the $75 million, which is all from SoftBank. ]]> http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/a-massive-75-million-round-streams-into-ustream-and-more-is-on-the-way/feed/ 0 http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/in-the-limelight-an-american-entrepreneur-in-china-talks-about-startup-culture/ http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/in-the-limelight-an-american-entrepreneur-in-china-talks-about-startup-culture/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:05:30 +0000 admin http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/in-the-limelight-an-american-entrepreneur-in-china-talks-about-startup-culture/
Calvin Chin is an American entrepreneur who lives in Shanghai. He founded Qifang , a P2P lending site for Chinese student loans. You can read more about Qifang here . He attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this last week, where China was the center of attention. We asked him to write this guest post and share his unique perspective as an American building a startup in the heart of China. ]]> http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/in-the-limelight-an-american-entrepreneur-in-china-talks-about-startup-culture/feed/ 0 http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/clientshow-debuts-realtime-collaboration-app-for-creative-pitches/ http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/clientshow-debuts-realtime-collaboration-app-for-creative-pitches/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:52:12 +0000 admin http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/clientshow-debuts-realtime-collaboration-app-for-creative-pitches/
Last fall, TechCrunch50 startup ClientShow presented its innovative application to help creative, advertising and marketing professionals show, pitch, share and sell their work to clients more effectively through real-time collaboration and communication. Similar to a WebEx for creative professionals, ClientShow allows users to essentially create a “virtual agency” to collaborate and share ideas with clients. This week, the startup is debuting its platform in private beta. We have 1000 invites for Techcrunch readers here. The application, which is built on Adobe Air, includes a dashboard which lets the agency view client lists, projects and pitch sessions at a single glance. ]]> http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/clientshow-debuts-realtime-collaboration-app-for-creative-pitches/feed/ 0 http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/will-china-eat-america%e2%80%99s-lunch-in-cleantech/ http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/will-china-eat-america%e2%80%99s-lunch-in-cleantech/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:30:06 +0000 admin http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/will-china-eat-america%e2%80%99s-lunch-in-cleantech/
In the State of the Union Address last Wednesday, President Obama said “the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy and America must be that nation.”  At the same time, on the other coast, 75 clean energy investors, entrepreneurs, and researchers were debating whether the U.S. can gain this leadership position.  They agreed that even though Silicon Valley leads the world in technology, it is not clear if it will ever lead in Cleantech. The Valley may develop some breakthrough technologies, but without government help these are unlikely to translate into global leadership. The technology world is rightfully allergic to government assistance and intervention. Cleantech is different, however, and we aren’t dealing with a level global playing field. ]]> http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/will-china-eat-america%e2%80%99s-lunch-in-cleantech/feed/ 0 http://technicdude.com/tech/ipad-ui-gets-ported-to-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch/ http://technicdude.com/tech/ipad-ui-gets-ported-to-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:03:48 +0000 admin http://technicdude.com/uncategorized/ipad-ui-gets-ported-to-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch/
At this particular point, 50-something days away from the earliest iPad deliveries, we doubt too many people are up in arms about the iPad's ability to act as a jumbo iPhone . On the other hand, if we told you you can take pretty much the entire iPad experience and distill it down to your iPhone OS device, well you'd probably care a lot more, wouldn't you? To get that extra 3D flavor to your UI, including the fetching iBooks shelf and other iPad-specific touches, you'll need a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch, access to the Cydia app store, and the manpower to click past the break for the full instructional video. Come on, you know you want to. [Thanks, Taimur] Continue reading iPad UI gets ported to the iPhone and iPod touch iPad UI gets ported to the iPhone and iPod touch originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:54:00 EST. ]]> http://technicdude.com/tech/ipad-ui-gets-ported-to-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch/feed/ 0