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by Rob Lewis
on Sat, September 6, 2008 3:15 PM
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Danny Robinson of Bootup Labs & Strutta blogged yesterday about the acquisition of Peerflix by Live Universe - a company started by MySpace founder Brad Greenspan.
Peerflix is a company I founded back in 2004 with Billy McNair. I’m happy to announce that LiveUniverse, started by MySpace founder Brad Greenspan, has acquired Peerflix.com. Terms of the deal will not be disclosed.
Peerflix started as a peer-to-peer version of Netflix where users traded the DVDs they own with each other for $0.99 each. Later Peerflix morphed into a much more lucrative business called the Peerflix Media Ad Network. Kind of an ad network in the movie industry vertical. In the process, Peerflix acquired TheMovieBlog which helped to achieve critical mass.
Most people don't know that Peerflix was actually founded a year earlier by Robinson and Tim Stewart (currently CTO of GiveMeaning.com). After a mention in the New York Times and a resulting flurry of interest from VCs in the U.S. in early 2004, Robinson recruited Bily McNair and opened an office in Palo Alto. In March 2007, Robinson consolidated Peerflix in California, appointed McNair as CEO, and left to work on Strutta locally.
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on Sat, September 6, 2008 2:58 PM
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Vancouver's Pointstreak.com announced yesterday the release of its multi-language application within Pointstreak's real-time scoring and official statistics system. Stats. Pointstreak's latest innovation will allow visitors to Pointstreak generated web pages the ability to toggle between various …
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on Sat, September 6, 2008 8:44 AM
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The young turks behind VEF's Momentum haven't wasted any time getting things rolling. Since we last mentioned them, they've launched their web site, and have announced their first event:
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on Fri, September 5, 2008 4:30 PM
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A lot of people were upset by the mysterious Kevin Curry's post on Techvibes, seeing it as sort of an ad hominem attack on the Vancouver technology community, not to mention a personal jab at some of its better known entrepreneurs. Mostly it reminded me of a joke a former colleague used to make in …
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OneMove Technologies took the first spot on Business in Vancouver's Fastest Growing Companies list. Over 1,000 lawyers use their web based software, e-conveyance, to process ~6,000 real estate transactions per month. Now they're looking to expand their context:
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