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One of the companies at Disrupt SF 2011 that escaped the horror of presenting on stage was Network Optix , whose impressive video handling technology was a little too practical for presentation. They’ve been busy the last few months in improving their product and forging business relationships, and have just announced that they’ve raised $750K with which to continue development. Their product is what they call Enterprise Video as a Service, and is designed around the idea of handling all the complex transcoding and bandwidth issues associated with viewing and manipulating video on different platforms.

I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t tried my hand at making music with various iPad apps.

Asana wants its task-list tool to feel so simple that you only encounter complexity when it’s useful. In other words, the opposite of how most enterprise software feels . And it has just added a little new piece of complexity in the form of a feature that lets you sync tasks to calendars.

All the world’s music and no way to figure out what to listen to next. This was the problem with Spotify until today. Its flimsy What’s New and Top Lists discovery channels showed you what’s popular, but there was no way to learn about artists or get recommendations from experts.

The UK’s largest cinema chain, Odeon , has made its move into f-commerce by launching a fully-transactional Facebook app, its first, that enables movie goers to book tickets without leaving the social network, says Marketing Magazine’s Sarah Shearman .

With today’s launch of Startup Texas , Texas becomes the latest U.S. state to join the growing list of regions in the Startup America initiative

Nick Carr insists that the Internet is wrecking our brains. But not everyone shares Carr’s techno-cultural pessimism

Sony is making a big push in retail, as COO Phil Molyneux outlined this morning at a press conference in New York City. As he explained Sony’s retail plans, in that lovely British accent, one thing kept popping up in my mind: Apple.

Recurly , a startup that makes it easy for other companies to manage their subscription billing , has released a payment gateway designed specifically to handle the unique requirements of recurring billing. Recurly’s service allows businesses to quickly implement a subscription billing system, handling tasks like credit card number storage (it also supports integration with financial software like QuickBooks). As President Dan Burkhart explains, there is turbulence in the subscription payments space because 5 to 15 percent of credit cards fail monthly in subscription billings.