VBrick Sets Up Boston Office to Tap Into Area Talent Pool, Looks to Expand Online Video Streaming Services | Xconomy
Summary
VBrick Systems, a Wallingford, CT-based provider of technology for the live streaming of video content online, is expanding its footprint in New England. “Our major motivation is to tap into the talent pool here.” VBrick, which will keep its roughly 125-employee office in Connecticut as well, started out offering a platform for broadcasting online video to hundreds or thousands of recipients at a time. There are plenty of technologies focused on broadcasting video to internal networks and wide open audiences—VBrick has a software-as-a-service product called VBoss for the latter—but not much unifying both worlds, Shaw says. VBrick recently acquired Emeryville, CA-based video hosting technology firm Fliqz for an undisclosed sum to focus more on the external broadcasts. “Definitely part of the strategy is to take advantage of some good products and talent developed in companies, and bring that into VBrick as we enlarge the offering,” Shaw says.
