The company looks ever less like a MOOC and more like a Netflix-style SVOD (subscription video on demand) platform for educational video series.
Social news site Gather has raised another $2.4 million in funding this week, in order to pivot its core business and focus on being a content on demand platform for other publishers, like Demand Media.
Then, towards the end of 2010, the company announced a €4 million round of funding followed by the launch of Wikio Experts, a "content on demand" platform for publications to source freelance writers.
Meanwhile, people seem to be moving toward on-demand platforms for trips to the emergency room, as well.
Mindly is an on-demand platform for home-based therapy.
Techy (a recent winner of our TC Radio pitch-off) solves this problem by providing an on-demand platform for laptop repairs.
TaskRabbit, the on-demand platform for hiring people to do everything from build furniture to stand in line for you at the Apple Store, has sold itself to IKEA, Recode first reported.
The startup has added on to its original Drupal-based, open source software solution to become an on-demand platform for academic institutions which allows them to build their own private social networks.
Ovil-Brenner, who started her first startup (which she later sold to a huge corporation) when she was nine months pregnant, is now CEO and founder of a startup called GlingMedia, the first on-demand platform for inbound calls.
Video-on-demand platforms — V.O.D., for short — have been around for years, but film distributors have lately been pushing the day-and-date model.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Video-on-demand platforms — V.O.D., for short — have been around for years, but film distributors have lately been pushing the day-and-date model.
