Akimbo Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnHollywood 100 Top Private Company Award Winner.Akimbo Recognized for Building Largest Premium Internet VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand Service SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Akimbo[TM] Systems, provider of the largest Internet-delivered video-on-demand service, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private emerging technology companies in digital entertainment and media. Akimbo was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria - innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation. The OnHollywood 100 was selected from more than 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. Akimbo is the only company to offer consumers a vast, ever-growing collection of more than 15,000 TV-quality videos for download on demand over the Internet. With Akimbo, consumers download video on demand and choose where they want to watch it - on a TV or a PC. The Akimbo Service offers Hollywood blockbusters and popular TV shows in addition to an astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, variety of specialty content - sports, indie movies, short films, LGBT-interest, Japanese anime, foreign language, men's lifestyle, learning and adventure. "Akimbo is honored to be named once again to the OnHollywood 100," said Akimbo Chief Executive Officer and President Thomas F. Frank. "This recognition is truly a testament to all that Akimbo has accomplished, paving the way for delivery of Internet VOD to consumers. Akimbo continues to lead the market with the largest video selection, more content providers and platform choices than any other company in the market. We look forward to continued success as the market evolves." Akimbo is available on the TV through the AT&T Homezone entertainment service or on any PC running Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Vista or XP. Consumers visit www.akimbo.com to download Akimbo to their PC or learn how to bring Akimbo into their homes via AT&T. "Digital technology has transformed the way content is created and delivered to consumers everywhere," said Tony Perkins Tony Perkins may refer to any of the following people:
Akimbo and the OnHollywood 100 will be honored at the OnHollywood digital entertainment and media event, May 1-3, at the Roosevelt Hotel
About OnHollywood 2007: May 1-3 @ The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, Calif. OnHollywood is where cutting edge technology from the backstreets Backstreets is a novel by Australian horror writer Rob Hood (Hodder Headline, 1999).It is is effectively an urban ghost story, its plot centering on a young man Kel who wakes from a coma to find that his friend Bryce is dead, and is thereafter plagued by strange dreams, which draw him to of Silicon Valley converges with Hollywood's media and entertainment elite. The two-and-a-half day event borrows from the "film market" tradition by providing an open environment for digital media and entertainment entrepreneurs to meet the big-time studio, telco and consumer electronics executives, venture capitalists and media. About AlwaysOn ALWAYSON ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network (1) An organization that hires people to write blogs. It sells advertising and owns the blogs. Examples of such commercial blog networks are www.engadget.com and www.b5media.com. See blog. (2) An organization that serves as an advertiser intermediary for bloggers. . In 2004, ALWAYSON continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. ALWAYSON is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (STANFORD SUMMIT, ALWAYSON HOLLYWOOD, ALWAYSON MEDIA and GOINGGREEN) and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. ALWAYSON is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. About Akimbo Akimbo is the only company to offer consumers a vast, ever-growing collection of more than 15,000 TV-quality videos for download on demand over the Internet. As an aggregator of mainstream and specialty video content, Akimbo works with hundreds of video providers to bring the world of Internet video-on-demand to the TV and the PC. Akimbo has been named to the OnHollywood 100 by AlwaysOn in 2006 and 2007. Akimbo is located in San Mateo, Calif. and is funded by AT&T, Blueprint Ventures, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. , Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sprout Group and Zone Ventures. For more information, visit www.akimbo.com. |
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