Friday, October 5, 2007Interview with Jason Nazar, docstocJason Nazar is CEO of Beverly Hills-based docstoc.com (www.docstoc.com), a new online service focused around sharing professional documents. The firm recently raised a small round of funding, pitched at TechCrunch40, and is getting ready to release its services to the public. We caught up with Jason to hear more about the company. Ben Kuo spoke with Jason.
What is Docstoc?
Jason Nazar: docstoc is YouTube for professional documents. It's an online community where you can find and share lega (More info...)
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AmberWave Licenses UC Santa Barbara TechnologyAmberWave Systems, a New Hampshire-based firm developing advanced technologies for semiconductor manufacturing, said Thursday that it has licensed technology from The University of California, Santa Barbara,. The licensing agreement covers material science research in the field of mesoporous materials, which are being used to develop fuel cells, high-performance batteris, and ultracapacitors. Financial terms of the licensing agreement were not disclosed. The technology is based on research in th (More info...)
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Transpera Hires ExecsSanta Monica-based Transpera, a venture backed firm developing mobile video publishing tools, said earlier this week that it has hired Rob DeMillo as Chief Technology Officer, and Jody Stark as Vice President of Business Development. DeMillo was most recently CTO of ThirdScreenMedia, and has also served at m-Qube; Stark comes from ICTV, and has served at YooMedia PLC, Mixed Signals Technologys, Blast Radius, Initech Consulting, and Viziworkx. Transpera is venture backed by Intel Capital, IDG Ven (More info...)
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Fonality Expands European ChannelLos Angeles-based Fonality, a provider of IP-based PBX systems, said earlier this week that it has expanded its channel in Europe. The firm said that it has signed solution providers in France, Poland, Italy, and the UK to resell and support its trixbox Pro phone system. The providers include CNSI (France), Halo2 (Poland), V4VoIP (UK), VCOMM (UK), VoIPon (UK), and Wildix (Italy). Fonality develops a PBX replacement product which uses low cost, PC platforms to replace expensive PBX hardware; the (More info...)
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