Joost receives £22.6m in VC funding

From NMA: Internet TV service Joost has acquired $45m (£22.6m) in venture capital. Five separate parties invested in the service, which launched commercially last week. Among the investors are Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CSB Corporation and Viacom. CBS has already contributed more than 2,000 hours of content to the service including…

Techdirt’s Technology or Community?

Techdirt (a free service of techdirt corporate intelligence) had this insightful little bite from Mike of the seems-like-it department: Which Is More Important: Technology Or Community? from the seems-like-it dept There’s an interesting little blurb making the rounds today about Rupert Murdoch claiming Google could have bought MySpace three months before he did at half…