Roundup: SanDisk's iPod competitor, interactive billboards & more | VentureBeat | News | by Matt Marshall
Summary
So Palo Alto’s Picaboo, which lets you publish photos into bound books, has — surprise — raised money around the same time as San Francisco competitor Blurb. More important is how much time someone spends on the site, and whether those people are looking at ads, and whether any investor or acquiring company will want anything to do with YouTube, given that it doesn’t own a lot of the content, and is even getting sued. Clearly this isn’t strong enough to be used from highways, but how long do you think it will take some eager entrepreneur to think about throwing WiMax up onto billboards along Silicon Valley’s 101? —Azaire Networks, of Santa Clara, a player in the hot fixed mobile convergence area, has raised $20 million in third round of funding, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Wire. Return backers include Convergence Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, Investor Growth Capital and Woodside Fund.