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WebProNews: VON Organizer Pulver Media At Risk

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• Author: Adam Gartenberg
• April 3, 2008
• Category:  Miscellaneous  VON  Pulver 

I, along with a few other IBMers, spoke at the VON conference in San Francisco a few weeks ago.  We all observed that attendance seemed a bit on the sparse side. (OK, maybe that's being generous.  It was pretty darn empty)

Apparently we weren't the only ones to notice.

From WebProNews:

VoIP trade show, magazine may end

Influential VoIP advocate and conference organizer Jeff Pulver may have hosted his last VON show, as rumors of the demise of Pulver Media started to spread.

This post was, in turn, started by a rumor over on GigaOM

According to my sources, earlier this month when the Pulver Media executives were in San Jose, Calif. For the Spring VON, their investors, TICC Capital Group pulled the rug from under Pulver Media, and shut down the company. They also seized control of the bank accounts. As a result many folks saw their checks bounced.

There still doesn't seem to be any final confirmation on this, but based on what I saw last month, they've got to do something different if they want to keep this thing going.

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