The StartUp Beat: 2/23/07
-CNET today featured a piece about Santa Monica-based Stickam, an online video social networking company trying to compete with the likes of You Tube and MySpace with streaming video. The article notes solid growth in its user base, but also some of the daunting challenges the company faces, not the least of which involve bandwidth and child safely issues. Here’s the article: A social site where webcams rule
-New slider phone coming from Helio – Apparently, Los Angeles-based MVNO Helio is working with South Korea’s Pantech on a new “slider” phone for mobile voice and data use. The pictures speak for themselves. Here they are on Engadget: Helio’s Pantech PN810 QWERTY device pops up in FCC
