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Boxee Adds Indie-Film Hub Fandor

Mar 9, 2011 12:01 AM

Indie-film subscription streaming service Fandor is coming out of beta Wednesday and coming onto Boxee, for what may be the first of many deals to get on connected devices.

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Boxee Going Overseas, Launching TV Payments With CBS

Mar 7, 2011 6:20 PM

Having raised new venture funding last week, Boxee now plans to expand in to Europe whilst launching the payment platform that will become its main business model.

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Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, IPTV, VOD, boxee

Boxee Picks Up $16.5 Million To Expand Connected TV Offerings

Mar 1, 2011 7:50 AM

Cord-cutting has yet to hit the mainstream, but one service is beefing up its offering in an attempt to make it more of a reality. The connected TV provider Boxee—which lets users watch TV programs, films and other content from the internet on their TV sets—is today announcing that it…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Video, boxee, general catalyst partners, pitango venture capital, softbank, spark capital, union square ventures

Boxee To Get CBS Full Episodes; iPad App, Vudu 3D Coming Too

Jan 6, 2011 11:39 AM

Boxee is announcing a deal with CBS (NYSE: CBS) that will allow it to stream full episodes through its over-the-top player as part of its appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Leaving aside the debate of whether cord-cutting is a genuine phenomenon or not, these are the…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Social Media, Video, Events, CES, Companies, Apple, iPad, CBS, boxee

Boxee Adds Vudu In Time For Box Release

Oct 28, 2010 9:00 AM

The Boxee Box will go to market next month with Vudu, the digital movie service Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) acquired earlier this year.

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Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, EC, Companies, AP, News Corp., STAR, boxee, vudu

Streaming Music Archive Wolfgang’s Vault Expands To Boxee

May 28, 2010 9:00 AM

Wolfgang’s Vault has already extended its streaming archive of classic rock and Newport concerts to mobile; today it enters the living room via Boxee. Users of the internet-to-TV app will be able to listen to 10 hours of the Vault free each month, same as users of the iPhone app.…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, boxee, wolfgang's vault

@ SXSWi: Ronen And Cuban Go Live With Pay TV-Internet Debate

Mar 12, 2010 6:09 PM

Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen met in person for the first time just before their Pay TV vs. Internet debate here at South by Southwest Interactive—about 20 minutes before their session was interrupted by a fire alarm. But they argue like a married couple that’s been together for 20 years,…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Events, SXSW, avner ronen, boxee, hdnet, mark cuban

Updated: Comcast-NBCU Hearings: Zucker Confronted About Hulu’s Boxee Block

Feb 4, 2010 2:56 PM

Boxee’s inability to carry Hulu programming is a matter of Congress now, thanks to the proposed Comcast-NBCU deal. During this morning’s hearing at the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) CEO Jeff Zucker and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Chairman and CEO…

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Posted In: Legal, Social Media, Video, Companies, Comcast, Hulu, NBC Universal, boxee, jeff zucker

Boxee Plans New Pay Wall For Summer; Will Keep Less Than 30 Percent Of Rev Split

Jan 20, 2010 9:30 AM

As Boxee prepares to roll out its branded set-top box, the streaming-music company is trying to sign up content owners for its first “payment platform” to be unveiled this summer. The pay wall will let content companies charge what they wish for access to their programs, movies, music, games, apps…

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Boxee Links Up With D-Link To Launch The First ‘Boxee Box’

Dec 7, 2009 11:58 PM

Amid a slew of new features and an interface upgrade, Boxee unveiled its biggest news: the manufacturing company behind the first iteration of its branded set-top box. The streaming media browser partnered with network and data device-maker D-Link to develop the Boxee Box. Boxee announced that it had struck a…

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Posted In: Gadgets, Media & Publishing, TV, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, boxee

Coming To Your Living Room In 2010: A Boxee Box

Nov 12, 2009 12:34 PM

One more set-top box vying for a spot between the TV, the cable/DVR box and the Xbox or PS3 ... Streaming media browser Boxee has sealed its first deal with a consumer electronics company, meaning that a Boxee-branded set-top box is currently in development. The company will show mock-ups of…

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Posted In: Gadgets, Media & Publishing, TV, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, boxee

Personal Web Systems Raises $1.2 Million For Web-to-TV Browser

Oct 7, 2009 11:50 AM

Ready for WebTV 2.0? Personal Web Systems, a tech firm that’s developing a web-to-TV browser add-on, has raised $1.2 million worth of a proposed $1.8 million round of funding, per an SEC filing. Founder and CEO Gordon Campbell, a former *Intel* CMO, confirmed that the round was a mix of…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, boxee

Boxee To Stream Brightcove Content Now, Too

Sep 7, 2009 11:44 PM

Hulu is still keeping its content away from Boxee, but that hasn’t stopped Boxee from adding new, premium content partners. The latest is Brightcove; the online video company sealed a distribution deal with Boxee that will give its clients like *TheStreet.com* more opportunities to get people watching their web videos…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Technologies / Formats, boxee, brightcove

Conde Nast Digital Starts Feeding Video Content To Boxee

Aug 25, 2009 4:04 PM

Boxee users will now be able to watch video clips from Wired.com (like this one on how to set up a chemistry lab in your house) and Style.com, as well as Style.com’s photo slideshows. Conde Nast Digital has become the latest media provider to do a content distribution deal with…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Social Media, Video, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, boxee, conde nast digital

Boxee Adds $6 Million Second Round; Aims To Take On Microsoft, Apple In Living Room

Aug 12, 2009 10:51 AM

Browser-based streaming media service Boxee has raised $6 million in a second round of funding. General Catalyst Partners led the round—managing director Neil Sequeira is joining the board—with previous backers Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital also participating. Boxee has raised $10 million in funding since its soft launch last…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Media & Publishing, TV, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, boxee, general catalyst partners, spark capital, union square ventures

Boxee Starts Live Streaming MLB.tv Games; Now Available For Windows Users

Jun 23, 2009 11:57 PM

Major League Baseball is continuing its forward-thinking when it comes to streaming live games by teaming with browser-based media provider Boxee. The open source video site offered a number of news items at its App Developer Challenge in San Francisco. Aside from the deal with Major League Baseball Advanced Media,…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, boxee, current tv, mlbam, windows

Boxee’s New Band-Aid Solution To Its Hulu Problem: RSS Feeds

Mar 6, 2009 11:15 AM

A couple of weeks after Hulu pulled its content from Boxee, the internet-streaming service announced on its blog today that it has introduced a new built-in RSS reader that gives users access to feeds from popular video services like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Video, Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO), YouTube, and—yes—Hulu. But don’t…

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Posted In: Advertising, Entertainment, Media & Publishing, Companies, Hulu, boxee

ZillionTV Launches; Can It Avoid Boxee’s Problems?

Mar 4, 2009 1:07 PM

Internet TV provider ZillionTV, another company offering an alternative to cable, launched today. According to a preview from the LA Times, the service includes some features that separate it in some ways from other internet-streaming options like Boxee and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Media Center’s set-top box. Those include better-quality streaming,…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Media & Publishing, Companies, Comcast, Time Warner, boxee, zilliontv

Hulu Makes It Two For Two: Will Pull Content From Boxee At Content Providers’ Request

Feb 18, 2009 7:46 PM

No apologies or explanations to users for removing Hulu content from TV.com but Hulu CEO Jason Kilar wants Boxee users to know that they’ll be losing access this week at the specific request of content providers. In his company blog post today titled Doing Hard Things, Kilar explains: “Our content…

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Posted In: Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, Hulu, NBC Universal, News Corp., boxee

Media Browser Boxee Gets $4 Million Funding

Nov 18, 2008 11:53 AM

Digital media browser software firm Boxee has received $4 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. The open-source software scans and brings all kinds of multimedia from a user’s computer or network into the application, lets users stream content…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Browsers, boxee, spark capital, union square ventures

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