Fortune notes that Venrock and Coinfund met through their mutual investment in the live
video streaming app maker YouNow.
Not exact matches
With the possible exception of social media company Snap, these companies — a carmaker, a phone
maker and a music
streaming app — have little to do with WeChat and
video games, all part of Tencent's core businesses.
Most of China's tech giants, including instant messaging and gaming company Tencent, mobile handset
maker Xiaomi, portal and microblogging giant Sina, and the country's
video streaming sites YoukuTudou, iQiyi, and LeTV, all have rushed into the rapidly growing space, joining upstarts such as Panda TV, an e-sports
streaming app owned by Wang Sicong, the son of Wang Jianlin, China's richest man, a real estate mogul with aspirations in media and entertainment.
For the past year, the
makers of the live -
streaming video chat service YouNow have been quietly developing a new
app that will be fueled by crypto tokens minted on Ethereum, a digital currency network that rivals Bitcoin and lets programmers spin up their own virtual currencies.
GoPro, the
maker of small action - sports cameras, has launched a GoPro Channel
app on the Xbox 360, in an effort to highlight entertaining footage.With the new Xbox 360
app, Xbox Live Gold members can
stream official GoPro
video content from their couch,... Read more
Earlier this week, the
makers of the Nintendo Switch
video game console turned on
streaming with the release of a new Hulu
app, and newcomer Philo joined heavyweights like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime in the
streaming space by partnering with dozens of popular cable channels.