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QuickLinks For 2008-07-22

• GumGum Chews on First Round:
  GumGum has secured $500,000 of a $1 million Series A round, according to a regulatory filing. First Round Capital led the deal, with partner Howard Morgan taking a GumGum board seat.
  Private Equity Hub.
  While there is some confusion (NewTeeVee/VentureBeat) on some details regarding the amount, Ophir Tanz of GumGum insists that the sources are partly "not 100% accurate" in reporting and promized an precise update in the next days.

GumGum (again)

Since Ophir Tanz of GumGum couldn´t travel to the CEPIC meeting this year (being busy with the UTR conference days earlier) to present his company and since I ran out of time towards the end of the session to show his slides he had emailed me: below is a short introduction (higher resolution) about the services of GumGum and links to interviews he did with socalTECH.com and Epicenter from Wired.com.

 

 

Rich Pearson on Attributor

A recent HyveUp video interview with Rich Pearson, Attributor´s VP of marketing:

   

Very unconventionally, Picscout´s CEO Eyal Gura explains PicApp - no, not really

First details about Picscout´s new PicApp.com platform emerged when Corbis´new CEO Gary Shenk gave a video interview during the Reuters Media Summit 2007 in November: using PicApp, "Corbis is offering Internet bloggers access to some of its images for their posts for free in exchange for showcasing advertising embedded into the photos".

By the way, this video interview had been by far the best public relation event in the whole stock photo industry in the year 2007.