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Veoh Spins Browser Add-On

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San Diego- and Los Angeles- based video sharing site Veoh Networks is looking to have users continually view and find videos on the site in their web browser, saying today that it has rolled out a new web browser add-on. The firm's new software will also provide video recommendations based on the viewing behavior of other online video users.

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Uberpaper, Headed by Dmitry Shapiro, Takes On News Reading

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Dmitry Shapiro , the former founder and CEO of Veoh, and later head of MySpace Music and Facebook alternative Altly, said Thursday that he has launched Uberpaper , a new, online news reading service to help people read and navigate news.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30 How did you get into VC? (9:30 9:30 – 11:30).

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Koji Connects With $20M More

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Shapiro previously founded the video sharing site Veoh, and also was the CTO of MySpace, in addition to serving at Google. The company says it has now raised a total of $36M. Koji was founded by startup veteran Dmitry Shapiro, along with Sean Thielen.

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GoMeta Gets $2M For Augmented Reality Universe Tools

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Shapiro was most recently at Google, but also had served at Anybeat, MySpace Music, and founded video site Veoh. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Ventures

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For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Capital

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For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company.

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