Yahoo buys Meedio
Yahoo buys Meedio
Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications.
"Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
Expertise I've been testing and reviewing computer and gaming hardware for over 20 years, covering every console launch since the Dreamcast and every MacBook...ever. Credentials
- Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings
We've been playing around with some of the popular Media Center alternatives lately, putting together a roundup of software suites like BeyondTV and SageTV. One company we didn't have any luck contacting was Meedio, which made the Meedio TV app for recording content via a TV tuner card in your PC.
Turns out the guys at Meedio were pretty busy--they just sold their company to Yahoo. Much like Konfabulator before them, Meedio's technology will now be used to create Yahoo-branded products in the great Web 2.0 race. Interestingly, Yahoo is buying only the company's technology and human know-how. The actual Meedio products (Meedio TV, Meedio Essentials, and so on) will be discontinued. Current users will receive EPG updates until July 1, and support for the company's products is ending immediately.
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