Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen met in person for the first time just before their Pay TV vs. Internet debate here at South by Southwest Interactive—about 20 minutes before their session was interrupted by a fire alarm. But they argue like a married couple that’s been together for 20 years,…

Boxee’s inability to carry Hulu programming is a matter of Congress now, thanks to the proposed Comcast-NBCU deal. During this morning’s hearing at the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) CEO Jeff Zucker and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Chairman and CEO…

As Boxee prepares to roll out its branded set-top box, the streaming-music company is trying to sign up content owners for its first “payment platform” to be unveiled this summer. The pay wall will let content companies charge what they wish for access to their programs, movies, music, games, apps…

Amid a slew of new features and an interface upgrade, Boxee unveiled its biggest news: the manufacturing company behind the first iteration of its branded set-top box. The streaming media browser partnered with network and data device-maker D-Link to develop the Boxee Box. Boxee announced that it had struck a…

One more set-top box vying for a spot between the TV, the cable/DVR box and the Xbox or PS3 ... Streaming media browser Boxee has sealed its first deal with a consumer electronics company, meaning that a Boxee-branded set-top box is currently in development. The company will show mock-ups of…

Ready for WebTV 2.0? Personal Web Systems, a tech firm that’s developing a web-to-TV browser add-on, has raised $1.2 million worth of a proposed $1.8 million round of funding, per an SEC filing. Founder and CEO Gordon Campbell, a former *Intel* CMO, confirmed that the round was a mix of…

Hulu is still keeping its content away from Boxee, but that hasn’t stopped Boxee from adding new, premium content partners. The latest is Brightcove; the online video company sealed a distribution deal with Boxee that will give its clients like *TheStreet.com* more opportunities to get people watching their web videos…

Boxee users will now be able to watch video clips from Wired.com (like this one on how to set up a chemistry lab in your house) and Style.com, as well as Style.com’s photo slideshows. Conde Nast Digital has become the latest media provider to do a content distribution deal with…

Browser-based streaming media service Boxee has raised $6 million in a second round of funding. General Catalyst Partners led the round—managing director Neil Sequeira is joining the board—with previous backers Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital also participating. Boxee has raised $10 million in funding since its soft launch last…

Major League Baseball is continuing its forward-thinking when it comes to streaming live games by teaming with browser-based media provider Boxee. The open source video site offered a number of news items at its App Developer Challenge in San Francisco. Aside from the deal with Major League Baseball Advanced Media,…

A couple of weeks after Hulu pulled its content from Boxee, the internet-streaming service announced on its blog today that it has introduced a new built-in RSS reader that gives users access to feeds from popular video services like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Video, Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO), YouTube, and—yes—Hulu. But don’t…

Internet TV provider ZillionTV, another company offering an alternative to cable, launched today. According to a preview from the LA Times, the service includes some features that separate it in some ways from other internet-streaming options like Boxee and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Media Center’s set-top box. Those include better-quality streaming,…

No apologies or explanations to users for removing Hulu content from TV.com but Hulu CEO Jason Kilar wants Boxee users to know that they’ll be losing access this week at the specific request of content providers. In his company blog post today titled Doing Hard Things, Kilar explains: “Our content…

Digital media browser software firm Boxee has received $4 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. The open-source software scans and brings all kinds of multimedia from a user’s computer or network into the application, lets users stream content…