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The program will train Channel Partners in sales and marketing, customer tracking and reporting tools, as well as support and account management from Skype. Once trained and certified by Skype, Skype Channel Partners can provide their own consulting, installation, configuration, maintenance and support services to business customers who want to use Skype’s business offerings, including the Skype Business Client, Skype Manager and Skype Connect.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=216461&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />"
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<a href="http://www.fireid.com/">FireID</a>, a provider of security applications for mobile authentication, has secured 5 million euros (roughly $6.4 million) from Jersey-based early-stage investment firm <a href="http://www.4dicapital.com/">4Di Capital</a>.
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During Q2 2010, VentureDeal reports (<a href="http://www.venturedeal.com/reports/pdf/venturedeal2010q2internetreport.pdf">PDF</a>) that 366 companies raised a total of $2.1 billion in venture capital funding for those sectors, up 17% in total funding amount compared to the first quarter of this year and an increase of 30% in the number of companies funded.
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There is a lot more going on here than advertisers bankrolling the production of their own videos because there isn't enough professionally produced Web video to show their ads against (although that is part of it). The rise of advertiser-produced video entertainment is but a sign of a much larger shift that is happening as people consume more video on the Web. Advertisers love broadcast and cable TV because of its massive reach into every home. They are finding it nearly impossible to replicate that reach on the Web. The only way they can do it is by spreading ads across tens of thousand of sites through video ad networks.
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There is a lot more going on here than advertisers bankrolling the production of their own videos because there isn't enough professionally produced Web video to show their ads against (although that is part of it). The rise of advertiser-produced video entertainment is but a sign of a much larger shift that is happening as people consume more video on the Web. Advertisers love broadcast and cable TV because of its massive reach into every home. They are finding it nearly impossible to replicate that reach on the Web. The only way they can do it is by spreading ads across tens of thousand of sites through video ad networks.
Many of those video ad networks also create their own content for their own sites, but some are also starting to become broader video distribution networks as well. One of the biggest video ad networks that specializes in creating branded content is <a href="http://www.dbgroup.tv/">Digital Broadcasting Group</a> (DBG). Last week, I met with COO Rick Kleczkowski, who told me about a few of the Web video shows DBG is producing, including the upcoming <em>ControlTV</em>, <em>Built Green</em>, and <em>Family Versus Chef</em>. We also got into a spirited discussion about why branded content seems to be taking over the Web, and whether or not that is a good thing I ask him if guys like him are going to put guys like me out of business (see videos below).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=216153&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />"
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Once a video is transcribed, it appears in a collapsible window below each player. Not only is all the text visible to search engines, and thus should help drive more search traffic to individual videos, but the text is all time-stamped. So you can click on any sentence and it will jump to that point in the video. Anytime somebody cuts and pastes a portion of the transcript in a blog or other site, a link back to that point in the video is also included. The startup tried doing a Flash wrapper before for the YouTube player. It completely reworked its technology into what it is now calling the SpeakerBar that is more of a transcript plug-in that detects any video on your site that has a matching plug-in. SpeakerText works with video players from YouTube, Brightcove, and Blip.tv, and there is also a WordPress plug-in. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=216433&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />"
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<a href="http://www.fireid.com/">FireID</a>, a provider of security applications for mobile authentication, has secured 5 million euros (roughly $6.4 million) from Jersey-based early-stage investment firm <a href="http://www.4dicapital.com/">4Di Capital</a>.
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Venture capital database <a href="http://www.venturedeal.com">VentureDeal</a> this morning <a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Venture-Capital-Funding-Quarterly-Reports-by-VentureDeal-1314354.htm">released</a> complimentary VC Funding Quarterly reports, covering the second quarter of 2010. Let's take a look at the report TechCrunch readers are likely most interested in: the world of the Web, digital media, software and ecommerce.
During Q2 2010, VentureDeal reports (<a href="http://www.venturedeal.com/reports/pdf/venturedeal2010q2internetreport.pdf">PDF</a>) that 366 companies raised a total of $2.1 billion in venture capital funding for those sectors, up 17% in total funding amount compared to the first quarter of this year and an increase of 30% in the number of companies funded.
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During Q2 2010, VentureDeal reports (<a href="http://www.venturedeal.com/reports/pdf/venturedeal2010q2internetreport.pdf">PDF</a>) that 366 companies raised a total of $2.1 billion in venture capital funding for those sectors, up 17% in total funding amount compared to the first quarter of this year and an increase of 30% in the number of companies funded.
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<a href="http://www.gsmworld.com/">GSMA</a>, the organizers of the annual, massive <a href="http://www.mobileworldcongress.com">Mobile World Congress</a>, have <a href="http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/press/pr_mwc11_new_developments.htm">announced</a> a couple of new developments this morning. For one, the organization is to expand the developer-focused programme at the event to include new elements such as Macworld Mobile and the Brand App Challenge.
In addition, the organization has announced new speakers, including Sir Martin Sorrell, chief exec of <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/wpp">WPP</a> and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/htc">HTC</a> head honcho <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/peter-chou">Peter Chou</a>.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=216392&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />"
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In addition, the organization has announced new speakers, including Sir Martin Sorrell, chief exec of <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/wpp">WPP</a> and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/htc">HTC</a> head honcho <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/peter-chou">Peter Chou</a>.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=216392&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />"
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string(1803) "<img class="snap_nopreview shot" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/screen-shot-2010-09-07-at-3-03-34-am.png" alt="" />Facebook has come along way from being <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register-for-new-facebook-website/">Mark Zuckerberg's afterschool project.</a> In fact <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Effect-Inside-Company-Connecting/dp/1439102112">"The Facebook Effect" </a>author David Kirkpatrick<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/26/parker-kirkpatrick-facebook-video/"> implied at TechCrunch Disrupt</a> that Facebook was so influential it should be governed by the United Nations, <em>“They are too important to our culture to be left to a private corporation” </em>he said.
But, despite the fact that at 500 million users Facebook has just under twice the population of the United States, it is a business not a country. And while Google is currently the most visited site on the Internet with about 170 million or so uniques in July, the levels of interaction that we have with Facebook are more often and more intimate, which makes it the most important site on the Internet today.
The amount of time we spend on Facebook underscores the fact that we no longer live in geopolitical countries but digital ones. And we often as citizens of digital domains forget that the end game of these platforms is “make money” which means that companies like Facebook must take steps to preserve business models based on lead generation and the monetization of user data, and that those steps are often against users' best interests, literally.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=216275&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />"
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But, despite the fact that at 500 million users Facebook has just under twice the population of the United States, it is a business not a country. And while Google is currently the most visited site on the Internet with about 170 million or so uniques in July, the levels of interaction that we have with Facebook are more often and more intimate, which makes it the most important site on the Internet today.
The amount of time we spend on Facebook underscores the fact that we no longer live in geopolitical countries but digital ones. And we often as citizens of digital domains forget that the end game of these platforms is “make money” which means that companies like Facebook must take steps to preserve business models based on lead generation and the monetization of user data, and that those steps are often against users' best interests, literally.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=216275&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />"
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I've ignored more press releases in my time than I care to remember, but I still scan, and sometimes even read, a bunch of them every single day. <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/11/the-evolution-of-the-press-release/">Comes with the territory</a>, and I've long accepted that - I'm sure a lot of PR folks think of those as necessary evil almost as much as we do. Almost.
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There is a lot more going on here than advertisers bankrolling the production of their own videos because there isn't enough professionally produced Web video to show their ads against (although that is part of it). The rise of advertiser-produced video entertainment is but a sign of a much larger shift that is happening as people consume more video on the Web. Advertisers love broadcast and cable TV because of its massive reach into every home. They are finding it nearly impossible to replicate that reach on the Web. The only way they can do it is by spreading ads across tens of thousand of sites through video ad networks.
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