Boxee Gets New Funding to Keep Being Awesome
Posted 08/13/09 at 09:20:14 AM by Paul Lilly
The money keeps rolling in for Boxee, a browser-based streaming media service who managed to attract $4 million last November. In its second round of funding, Boxee has secured another $6 million in financing from Boston-based General Catalyst.
"General Catalyst brings more than just money to the table," Boxee wrote on its blog. "We wanted a partner to help us as we strengthen our relationship with big media and cable companies. As we learned (the hard way), it is a complicated world."
One of those complications came earlier in the year when Boxee was forced to drop support for Hulu streaming after content providers cried foul and demanded that the service be turned off. Boxee hopes its latest funding and resulting contacts will help the service avoid these types of conflicts moving forward.
Boxee also listed out a handful of goals, which include bringing the service out of Beta, adding more content, attracting more developers, and bringing Boxee into devices.
browser based? what are you smoking
Submitted by metric_inch on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 8:59am
"he money keeps rolling in for Boxee, a browser-based streaming media service who managed to attract $4 million last November."
A Browser-based media service? What are you smoking? Can I have some?
I know its hard to keep up with technology and terms, but browser-based usually means its a web-app that runs inside a web browser.
Now I know boxee added its own built-in browser to try and stream hulu, but that doesn't mean its browser-based.
Are you guys playing buzzword bingo in the office and who ever gets the most buzzwords into their articles wins?
browser!=web
Submitted by Deanjo on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 9:19am
browser!=web browser
Browsers can be file, web, or other types.
http://www.google.com/search?
Submitted by metric_inch on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 10:52am
http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=browser+based
If you say browser based espically with a hypen, like in the article, anyone who breaths through their nose will associate that term with a Web Browser.
I understand there are other types of browers, but the term Browser-based specifically refers to Web Browsers. Don't be pedantic.
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