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Akimbo in Limbo: Shuts Down and Looking For Buyer

May 23, 2008 1:28 PM

Akimbo, the doomed-from-the-start online-to-TV video service, has finally shut down for good, and looking for a buyer for its assets. It has laid off most of its staff, and is maintaining a skeleton crew to keep the services up and running as it looks to find a buyer, reports NTV.…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Media & Publishing, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, akimbo

Updated: Akimbo Retools, Again; $4 Million In New Funding

Feb 29, 2008 10:29 AM

Akimbo, the once-online-to-tv video provider which retooled after dumping the box it was selling, has retooled again, and this time has added more money (via NTV). Now it is offering a white-label service to publishers, done by tons of others on the space, which has “a comprehensive advertising system and…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, akimbo, draper fisher jurvetson, kpcb, zone ventures

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