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KickApps
KickApps is a hosted platform for creating social networks and adding social software features, video players and widgets to websites. More than 100,000 sites use KickApps, including major media companies (e.g. NBC Universal, the BBC, H&R Block, and Scripps Networks) and a wide variety of niche websites. The KickApps company was acquired in January 2011 by KIT digital. Then, in December 2012, the company was acquired again by Perfect Sense Digital. Features KickApps is a hosted platform (SaaS) that provides a range of social media applications to website developers and publishers. A SaaS platform allows websites to deploy a wide range of user experiences in a variety of ways: REST and SOAP APIs, feeds, programmable widgets and video players, customizable templates and single-sign services. * Members select a username and password (or use their existing site ID) to join your social network * Members can upload videos, photos, and audio * Member profiles contain standard soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KIT Digital
Piksel is a professional service and technology provider to the broadcast and media industries. The company maintains corporate headquarters in Atlanta, with offices in Meylan, France and Madrid. Piksel formerly went by the name of KIT Digital until filing for bankruptcy in April 2013. Upon emerging from bankruptcy in August 2013, the company changed its name to Piksel. History In late 2007, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman purchased a controlling interest in ROO Group and became the company's CEO and chairman of the board. ROO Group changed its name to KIT Digital in 2008 after a financial restructuring of the company. KIT Digital embarked on a growth by acquisition strategy and quickly acquired a number of players in the digital media and IP video industry. In 2008, they acquired, Sputnik Agency, Visual Connection, Kamera and Morpheum. In 2009, Narrowstep, Nunet, The FeedRoom and Juzou. KIT Digital was listed on the NASDAQ Global Market in August 2009 under the ticker "KITD". The key ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web Widget
A web widget is a web page or web application that is embedded as an element of a host web page but which is substantially independent of the host page, having limited or no interaction with the host. A web widget commonly provides users of the host page access to resources from another web site, content that the host page may be prevented from accessing itself by the browser's same-origin policy or the content provider's CORS policy. That content includes advertising (Google's AdSense), sponsored external links ( Taboola), user comments ( Disqus), social media buttons (Twitter, Facebook), news (USA Today), and weather ( AccuWeather). Some web widgets though serve as user-selectable customizations of the host page itself (Elfsight, Powr, OpenWidget). Technology Widgets may be considered as downloadable applications which look and act like traditional apps but are implemented using web technologies including JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Widgets use and depend on web APIs ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarl Mohn
Jarl Mohn is an American venture capital investor, art collector, and philanthropist, who focuses primarily on startups in the Los Angeles area. He served as the president and CEO of NPR from 2014 to 2019 and now serves as its president emeritus. Education Mohn was born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Temple University. Early radio career Mohn spent almost 20 years in radio, working mostly as a disc jockey under the name Lee Masters, including two years at WNBC in New York City. In the 1970s, Kentucky-based entrepreneur Clarance Henson hired Mohn to work as a programmer for WLRS in Louisville, and he later served as general manager of a group of radio stations owned by Henson Broadcasting: KLOZ and KISO in El Paso, TX, and WAVG in Louisville, Kentucky). Cable career From 1986 until 1990 Mohn served as executive vice president and general manager at MTV and VH1. Mohn led the team that transition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spark Capital
Spark Capital Partners, LLC is a multi-stage venture capital firm based in the U.S. with operations in San Francisco, New York, and Boston. Spark is a generalist VC firm with a portfolio that spans verticals such as consumer internet, enterprise software, gaming, infrastructure technologies, hardware, semiconductors, crypto, fintech, and AI. Funds Spark Capital was launched in 2005 by Paul Conway, Santo Politi, and Todd Dagres.Today the firm manages assets north of $12 billion. They have raised eight early-stage funds: US$265 million in 2005; $360 million in 2008; $360 million in 2010; $450 million in 2013; $400 million in 2016; $450 million in 2019; $700M in 2021; and $700M in 2024.They have also raised five growth funds: $375 million in 2014; $600 million in 2016;$900 million in 2019; $1.4B in 2021; and $1.4B in 2024. Team Spark Capital was founded in 2005 by Bijan Sabet, Paul Conway, Santo Politi, and Todd Dagres. Other people who have joined the company since its inception i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ning (website)
Ning is an online social media network platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks.Social Graph-iti The Economist, Oct 18, 2007 Ning was co-founded by and Gina Bianchini and launched in October 2005. By June 2011 there were over 90,000 social websites running on the Ning Platform.With Revenue Up 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brightcove
Brightcove, Inc. is an American software company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that produces an online video platform. Founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire and Bob Mason, the company went public in 2012, and in 2025 was acquired by Bending Spoons. History Brightcove was founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire, who served as Executive Chairman until April 2016, and Bob Mason. The company was named after a harbor where the founder liked to kayak named Bright Cove Harbor in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In March 2006, Brightcove acquired Seattle-based Metastories, makers of StoryMaker, a publishing tool for video, audio, images, and text. In May of that year, it established a distribution partnership with TiVo and a content delivery partnership with Limelight Networks. Coinciding with a series of deals with UK media companies, Brightcove opened an office in London in July 2007. In November 2009, Brightcove was named as one of the top two U.S. video platform vendors. In April 2010, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Software As A Service
Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike other software delivery models, it separates "the possession and ownership of software from its use". SaaS use began around 2000, and by 2023 was the main form of software application deployment. Unlike most self-hosted software products, only one version of the software exists and only one operating system and configuration is supported. SaaS products typically run on rented infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS) systems including hardware and sometimes operating systems and middleware, to accommodate rapid increases in usage while providing instant and continuous availability to customers. SaaS customers have the abstraction of limitless computing resources, while economy of scale drives down the cost. Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfect Sense Digital
Perfect commonly refers to: * Perfection; completeness, and excellence * Perfect (grammar), a grammatical category in some languages Perfect may also refer to: Film and television * ''Perfect'' (1985 film), a romantic drama * ''Perfect'' (2018 film), a science fiction thriller * "Perfect" (''Doctors''), a 2004 television episode Literature * ''Perfect'' (Friend novel), a 2004 novel by Natasha Friend * ''Perfect'' (Hopkins novel), a young adult novel by Ellen Hopkins * ''Perfect'' (Joyce novel), a 2013 novel by Rachel Joyce * ''Perfect'' (Shepard novel), a Pretty Little Liars novel by Sara Shepard * ''Perfect'', a young adult science fiction novel by Dyan Sheldon Music * Perfect interval, in music theory * Perfect Records, a record label Artists * Perfect (musician) (born 1980), reggae singer * Perfect (Polish band) * Perfect (American band), an American alternative rock group Albums * ''Perfect'' (Intwine album) (2004) * ''Perfect'' (Half Japanese album) (2016) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
H&R Block
H&R Block, Inc., or H&R Block, is an American tax preparation company operating in Canada, the United States, and Australia. The company was founded in 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri, by brothers Henry W. Bloch and Richard Bloch. As of 2018, H&R Block operates approximately 12,000 retail tax offices staffed by tax professionals worldwide. The company offers payroll, and business consulting services, consumer tax software, and online tax preparation/IRS e-file, electronic filing from their website. History Founding During World War II, Henry W. Bloch was a young United States Army Air Forces, Army Air Forces navigator who wanted to start a family business with his brothers in Kansas City., Many Happy Returns, Thomas M. Bloch, 2010. Home from the war in 1946, Henry saw a pamphlet suggesting a bright future for companies serving small businesses, and it sparked his imagination. That year, Henry and his older brother, Leon, borrowed $5,000 and opened a small bookkeeping business on M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scripps Networks
Scripps Networks, LLC, formerly known as Katz Broadcasting, is an American specialized digital multicasting network media company and a division of the E. W. Scripps Company. The company owns (as of 2024) eight broadcast television networks, nine FAST streaming networks and a streaming service that each carry programming with specified formats targeted at individual demographics. Originally, Katz sold the network to affiliated TV stations via ad split, but by October 2015, had moved to carriage fees in exchange for the network getting the ad inventory due to greater inventory with stations adding a third or fourth subchannel.:1 Their networks used direct response advertising as a meter of viewers before switching to Nielsen rating C-3.:3 History Katz Broadcasting, LLC was founded on February 3, 2014, by Jonathan Katz, who was chief operating officer of Bounce TV and formerly worked at the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in Atlanta, Georgia. The company was announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
