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Age: 36.Title: Founder, chairman, “Minister of Order and Reason,” Loudeye Technologies.Founded: 1997.Location: Seattle.IPO: March 2000.Employees: 240.Martin Tobias may have been ahead of his time when he founded Loudeye Technologies in 1997. But since then, he has ensured Loudeye’s place as…
Age: 35.Title: Founder and CEO of AtomShockwave.Location: San Francisco.Employees: 200.Financial backers: AtomFilms investors include Chase Capital Entertainment Partners and Chase Capital Partners, Arts Alliance, Frank J. Biondi Jr. (general partner at WaterView Partners and former chairman and CEO of Universal…
Debate is over on DTV standardYour lead story, “Sinclair: Something rotten in digital test” (Electronic Media, Feb. 12), was at best unfortunate and at worst highly misleading. The article tilts shamelessly toward fringe players at the expense of journalistic balance,…
BroadcastingRobert Allbritton to chairman of the board and CEO, Allbritton Communications, from president.Douglas Darfield to senior vice president, Hispanic services, Nielsen Media Research, from head of research, Univision.Tish Robinson to general manager, WRWB-TV, Rochester, N.Y., from general sales manager, WUHF-TV,…
Title: Director of business development for Liberate Technologies, a leading provider of a complete software platform for delivering Internet-enhanced content and applications to information appliances such as televisions, set-top boxes and game consoles.New job: “In April, I am moving to…
Age: 48.Title: Founder, chairman and chief technology officer, Be Here.Founded: 1996.Located in: Cupertino, Calif.Employees: 32.Investors: Intel, Phillips, Kodak, Enterprise Partners, Wasserstein Adelson Ventures.Ted Driscoll has had big ideas all his life, but he says Be Here, the 360-degree imaging company…
Age: 41.Title: Chairman of the board, Pulse Entertainment.Location: San Francisco.Employees: 85.Financial backers: Softbank, Time Warner.Competitors: Viewpoint Data Labs.Even though he’s a founding father of some of today’s most high-profile tech companies, don’t call Bill Woodward “Daddy.”“I’m very entrepreneurial. I’ll try…
Congress revisits retransmission issue A dozen lawmakers Friday asked the Federal Communications Commission to protect broadcast television programming from being retransmitted-without permission-on the Internet. In a letter to FCC Chairman Michael Powell, they said the next wave of digital cable…
And the injured ‘Survivor’ contestant is … The mystery about what tragedy might have befallen one of the contestants on CBS’s “Survivor: The Australian Outback” was solved during Thursday night’s telecast when Kucha’s macho man Michael Skupin was badly burned…
Quake postpones CNN’s plans for Shaw tribute The 6.8 earthquake that rocked the Northwest on Wednesday knocked back plans for CNN to pay tribute on-air to Bernard Shaw, who had long been scheduled to take his leave on Wednesday from…