Biz Journals |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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NBC Universal is looking to expand its joint venture Hulu to Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan as part of an overall expansion of its international presence, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. (NWS) (GE)[...]
PaidContent.org |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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The BBC has been blocked from beginning a £68 million ($101 million), four-year program to add video bulletins to its 65 local UK websites - a proposal that had been vigorously contested by concerned commercial publishers. After a five-month inquiry, the BBC Trust regulator said on Friday the plan would [...]
GigaOM |
November 10th, 2008 |
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If there were any lingering doubts about people’s desire to get television anywhere, anytime, and on any device, then the recent success of the BBC’s iPlayer service has put them to rest. As our team at NewTeeVee has repeatedly pointed out, in the British Isles, the iPlayer is a phenomenon. [...]
SF Chronicle |
November 9th, 2008 |
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YouTube is by far the world's biggest stage for online video. But in some ways Hulu is stealing the show. With critical plaudits and advertising dollars flowing to Hulu, the popular online hub for television shows and feature films, YouTube finds itself in[...]
So says a report from News.com, and it seems a no brainer on the face of it: YouTube, owned by Google (NSDQ: GOOG), has tried to get full length movies and TV shows from major networks and studios for a while now, but has failed to make major headway due [...]
NewTeeVee |
November 5th, 2008 |
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YouTube today announced it has upgraded its embedded videos, which it disclosed account for close to 44 percent of its total views. That's an insane amount, when you think about how many views YouTube does - 5 billion per month in the U.S. alone, according to comScore (which attempts to [...]
GigaOM |
November 5th, 2008 |
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The votes have been cast, the winners and losers have spoken, and the euphoria of yesterday will now give way to the realization that a lot of hard work lies ahead. We're not talking about the U.S. presidential race, but the even longer slog to use the spectrum between digital [...]
USA Today |
November 4th, 2008 |
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If you watch video online on YouTube, MySpace, CNN, Hulu or elsewhere you're viewing in Adobe's Flash, a software plug-in that's [...]
NewTeeVee |
November 4th, 2008 |
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Well, it had to happen. After a week's worth of fun stories about streaming HD content, reality comes crashing in. AT&T announced today that it is testing tiered broadband access in Reno, Nev., joining a growing list of ISPs around the country that are metering bandwidth. GigaOM has the full [...]
NewTeeVee |
November 3rd, 2008 |
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The interminable U.S. presidential campaign season will come finally come to an end tomorrow night. If you're looking for a map with updating red and blue states (a tradition that dates back to NBC in the 1976 election, it turns out), we've got you covered. If you're looking for more [...]
It is a bloody Monday in big media/Internet land, as layoffs, reorgs and senior exec moves continue: George Kliavkoff, the Chief Digital Officer at NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and main brain behind conceiving and developing Hulu, is leaving the company. He will be there till the end of this year, [...]
GigaOM |
November 3rd, 2008 |
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Wink, a Mountain View, Calif., people search site is merging with Reunion, a Santa Monica, Calif., social networking site. Combining Wink's 700 million individual profiles and web-crawling capabilities and Reunion's membership of about 50 million, the new company thinks it has a head start in the social search market. But [...]
GigaOM |
November 2nd, 2008 |
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I’ve read a lot here about how to hack a funding term sheet, or how to navigate the confusing terms and conditions in the legal contracts startup founders must sign. But what about rent? It's probably one of your biggest operating costs, and in the current spirit of cost-cutting, there [...]
GigaOM |
October 31st, 2008 |
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While I was out trick-or-treating with my daughter, EETimes reported that Ultra-wideband startup WiQuest had shut its doors. This is a sad day for the more than 120 employees of the Allen, Texas chipmaker, and unfortunate for the venture backers who put at least $54 million in the wireless networking [...]
NewTeeVee |
October 31st, 2008 |
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A tipster reached out to us this week to tell us about layoffs at the Redwood City, Calif.-based P2P video startup Vuze, stating that the company had dismissed more than half of its workforce. Vuze subsequently confirmed two rounds of previously unreported layoffs to us, but clarified that the dismissals [...]
CNN |
October 31st, 2008 |
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Saturday Night Live isn't the only brand boosted by Tina Fey's Sarah Palin routines. If you're one of the millions who's watched those skits online within a week of their original broadcast, chances are you've seen them at Hulu.com. It's a big moment for the free video site.[...]
