Nov 8, 2010 8:53 PM
Selling his company in 2007, when the U.S. stock market was at an all-time high, has put Sling Media co-founder Blake Krikorian in a pretty comfortable position to pontificate about the state of innovation in digital media since then. But—apart from Google’s Android operating system—he isn’t too impressed by what…
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Jan 12, 2009 5:21 PM
Little more than a year after Sling Media’s sale to EchoStar, the co-founders and the top team at Sling Entertainment are leaving the company, paidContent.org has learned. The news is being broken to staff in meetings going on now. Departing are brothers Blake and Jason Krikorian, respectively CEO and SVP-business…
Posted In: Gadgets, sling media
Jan 6, 2009 1:08 AM
Sling Media has announced that the SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone application it has been developing since June will be delivered to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for certification in the first quarter of this year. It’s to be sold via the iTunes store, probably for around the same price as its other…
Posted In: Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPhone, sling media
Jun 11, 2008 5:11 AM
TV placeshifting operator Sling Media plans to sell an iPhone version of its Sling Player through the iTunes Store after its alpha version has been modified to accommodate the handset’s new SDK. Sling gave a demo of its player at Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco this…
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Nov 5, 2007 11:15 AM
I caught up with Blake Krikorian at CTIA, just a few days after the official closing of EchoStar’s acquisition of Sling Media. (No, it won’t be called EchoSling or SlingStar.) (Sling Media finally owns the Sling.com domain and will be using it for new service Clip+Sling.) We talked about Sling’s…
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Oct 22, 2007 12:57 PM
Sling Media co-founder and CEO Blake Krikorian says his company made the decision to sell its product independently and without a service plan because there was “no way in hell” the company would survive if it had licensed its technology to cable companies or other providers and had to wait…
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