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blinkx reports strong growth

Video search engine blinkx has reported positive financial results for the period ended 30 September 2007. Gross profit for the first half of 2008 was $2.2 million (E1.5m), with a gross margin of 74 per cent and daily searches have grown by 280 per cent. Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx, said: “We are […]

October 30, 2007

Babel TV coming soon

UK ISP Pipex founder Peter Dawe has confirmed that Internet TV service Babel TV will launch on November 6th. The service, which works by plugging a Babel TV box into a digital terrestrial Freeview aerial and broadband connection, combines Freeview, personal video recorder technology and Internet access. Babel TV will enable users to record and […]

October 29, 2007

NBC blanks YouTube ready for Hulu

NBC Universal has removed all its video clips from YouTube and closed a promotional channel on the site in advance of the launch next week of its own rival service, Hulu. NBC said it was intended to provide a boost to Hulu, which is a joint venture with News Corp's Fox division, and did not […]

October 24, 2007

Viacom won't back down on Google

Viacom has stated that it will not drop its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube parent Google. Philippe Dauman, Viacom’s chief executive, said that Google had not done enough to prevent content from being illegally uploaded to YouTube. Viacom, owners of MTV and Nickelodeon, claims that Google allowed more than 160,000 clips of its programming to […]

October 23, 2007

MySpaceTV originals

MySpaceTV unveiled its first original Web series to give its users a television-like experience with the interactive benefits of the Internet. “Roommates” will track the lives of four women in their 20s who have recently graduated from college and are living together in Los Angeles. The Web show runs through December for a total of […]

October 23, 2007

Axiom.TV family-focused Internet TV channel

Axiom.TV is set to Beta launch the first comprehensive technology to make Internet TV user- friendly, legal and safe for families. To celebrate its international Beta launch, Axiom.TV will give away the movie 'Benji' to the first 33'000 subscribers. Axiom.TV is currently in final negotiations with several of the major studios for additional movie content, […]

October 23, 2007

Taiwan YouTube

YouTube has launched a local version of the video-sharing site in Taiwan, in its latest push to expand in foreign markets. The interface of the site is in Chinese and the site features locally produced content, including that from YouTube’s four Taiwan media partners: China Television, Sanlih E-Television, Lion Travel Service and Taiwan Broadcasting System.

October 22, 2007

Narrowstep focuses on enterprise customers

Narrowstep, the TV on the Internet company, has upgraded its telvOS platform and its CDN network which the Company believes will enable it to offer enterprise customers the most sophisticated tools and functionality on the market. The Company is currently shifting the focus of its sales and marketing efforts on larger enterprise customers requiring sophisticated […]

October 19, 2007

Internet TV growing strongly

The number of people watching internet TV has increased steadily year on year according to Continental Research's Autumn 2007 Internet & Convergence Report. In particular the number watching shows they have previously downloaded from the Internet has doubled from 1.3 million in 2006 to 2.4 million in 2007. There is also substantial interest in Internet […]

October 18, 2007

Vimeo goes HD

Video sharing Web site Vimeo is set to begin distributing videos in high-definition. While movie trailers and certain other professionally produced videos can be viewed online in high-definition, Vimeo is the first Web site to make HD available for user-generated videos.

October 18, 2007