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Monday, November 10, 2008

The Mobuzz-Has-Fallen-and-It-Can’t-Get Up Saga Continues!

The Mobuzz.tv survival saga continues and the verdict is: It is down but not out…yet.

Last week, the producer of free online video shows, based in Spain, has been essentially panhandling its users, asking in a series of videos for five euros each to keep it afloat until it can get more funding. Mobuzz wanted to raise 120,000 euros by this week.

And while it only has gotten about one-fourth–or 33,000 euros–of the way there, despair not! Mobuzz’s Anil de Mello says it will flippity-flop on, even as it is creating some of the more compelling content on the Web of late related to its death throes.

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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