Seattle’s RealNetworks has launched a new film and entertainment news site, Film.com, featuring film previews, movie trailers, DVD releases, and coverage of television programming and celebrity news. Real is introducing the new Film.com at Sundance, where reporters for the Web site will post daily exclusive video reports and commentary from the film festival. Read the rest of this entry » [24×7]
Wetpaint Attracting More Black Ink
Wetpaint is out to make blogging easier by allowing groups to collaborate. Call it a wiki-meets-blog mashup. Accel Partners said Tuesday it liked the idea, backing the Seattle start-up in a second round of funding worth $9.5 million.The Wetpaint Collab-a-blog (our words, not theirs) addresses the fundamental problem with the idea of blogging – that of fatigue. One person, acting alone, can get weary of posting every day, but many hands can make the work lighter.
Joining Accel in the round were existing investors Trinity Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures. The latest round brings the company’s total funding to $14.8 million, and will be used to further develop the company’s software tools. [24×7]
AQuantive Acquires Stake in Japanese Content Shop
Top Seattle online shop AQuantive Inc. now has a presence in the Japanese market, having acquired a 19% share of content firm Digital Palette Inc., whose majority owner is Dentsu Inc. Beginning Feb. 1, the firm will be known as Dentsu/Avenue A/Razorfish, with Dentsu executive Reo Watanabe as its CEO [24×7]
Microsoft Analytics to Challenge Google?
Rumors are floating that Microsoft is about to come out with a free Web analytics service which will rival Google Analytics.
The project is currently called Gatineau and a Welcome page is now live, but you can’t login just yet. Little is known about Gatineau at this point. It is noted that the project is code named Gatineau after the city in Canada where DeepMetrix was based. [24×7]
