Imaginova Corporation is a U.S. digital media and commerce company based in New York City

New York City

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. The company, which was started in 1999 as "Space.com

Space.com

Space.com is a space and astronomy news website. Its stories are often syndicated to other media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo!, and USA Today.Space.com was founded by former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs and Rich Zahradnik, in July 1999...

" by CNN

CNN

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 business anchor Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs

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, later became known as Space Holdings Corp. Dan Stone became President, Chief Executive Officer and a board member in 2002 and renamed the company to Imaginova in 2004. The company sold its consumer businesses to TopTenReviews

TopTenReviews

TopTenReviews is a website which aggregates reviews for software, hardware, web services, music, movies and video games from other sites and publications. Founded by Jerry Ropelato in 2003, TTR is, as of May 2008, one of the most popular sites of its kind by size and traffic, with the largest...

 in 2009.

Imaginova promotes itself as the preeminent destination for the “intellectually curious.”

It comprises the following media properties and E-Commerce retailers:

• Space News SpaceNews.com
• LiveScienceStore.com LiveScienceStore.com
• Orion Telescopes & Binoculars
  Orion Telescopes & Binoculars
  For the unrelated British telescope manufacturer, go to Orion OpticsOrion Telescopes & Binoculars is an American-based retailer of foreign manufactured telescopes and other equipment for astronomy that also sells some equipment for other areas of interest, such as birdwatching...
  
   OrionTelescopes.com

Imaginova is a news provider, via the Imaginova Network of media properties, and syndicates its original content to the following news portals: Yahoo!, MSNBC

MSNBC

MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...

, AOL

AOL

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 and FoxNews.com.

Imaginova was the developer of Starry Night

Starry Night (planetarium software)

Starry Night is commercial planetarium software, available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and for the iphone. Starry Night focuses heavily on providing attractive, realistic imagery, although recent versions have also increasingly targeted the amateur astronomy community with features like...

 software and widgets for Mac OS X

Mac OS X

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, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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, BlackBerry

BlackBerry

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, iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

 and iPod touch

IPod touch

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. In 2008, Starry Night was acquired by Simulation Curriculum Corporation.

The company is headquartered in New York City with offices and news bureaus in California, Virginia, Toronto and Paris.

Imaginova is backed by investors: Blue Chip Venture Capital; Gannett Co., Inc.; RedShift Ventures; Steelpoint Capital Partners and Venrock Associates

Venrock Associates

Venrock, a compound of "Venture" and "Rockefeller", is a pioneering venture capital firm formed in 1969 to build upon the successful investing activities of the Rockefeller family that began in the late 1930s. It has offices in Palo Alto, California, New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and...

. In August 2006, the company raised $15M in growth equity financing.