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YouTube for nerds: Slashdot TV has launched
From: VentureBeat - Jolie O'Dell | Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:14   
Screw those stupid cat videos; Slashdot TV has arrived, and it might actually make you smarter.
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Incentivized Social Video Gets Real-Time Biddable
From: Adweek - Ki Mae Heussner | Thursday, 22 March 2012 11:09   
The video ad/analytics platform TrialPay is partnering with TubeMogul for the real-time bidding on social video.
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Video Streaming Platform Ustream Launches In Korea
From: TechCrunch - Rip Emson | Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:36   
Back in October, live video streaming platform Ustream announced a partnership with KT Corporation — a leading telecommunications provider in South Korea. The joint venture also included an additional $10 million funding round, much of it led by the sizable Japanese telecom provider, Softbank (whose independent by closely-connected VC firm, Softbank Capital, operates in the Boston, among other cities). The funding brought Ustream’s total outside investment close to $60 million.
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GoldSpot Shows You Mobile Video Ads If You’re On Wi-Fi Via New Bandwidth-Aware Ad Tech
From: TechCrunch - Josh Constine | Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:22   
GoldSpot Media has just unveiled its new “bandwidth-based ads”, a licensable technology that lets advertisers deliver a single mobile ad unit that appears as a simple rotating banner to viewers on 3G or mobile data, but as an auto-playing partial screen overlay video to viewers on wi-fi. Debuted on a new Zyrtec pharmaceutical campaign, you can compare the formats for yourself by turning wi-fi on or off.
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DramaFever, A Fast Growing Asian Hulu, Raises $4.5M
From: VentureBeat - Ben Popper | Friday, 16 March 2012 16:58   
Ever heard of Drama Fever? Cool, me neither. Turns out the New York startup has 1.5 million viewers, three times what they had in March of 2011. Each month these folks spend many hours and up to $10 a pop to get the best in East Asian drama and boy bands streamed to them in high-def.
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Cisco to acquire video software maker NDS for a whopping $5B
From: VentureBeat - Sean Ludwig | Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:38   
Networking titan Cisco has agreed to purchase Israeli video software company NDS for a cool $5 billion, the company announced Thursday morning.
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How the Acquisition of NDS Accelerates Cisco’s Video Entertainment Strategy
From: Cisco Blog - Marthin De Beer | Thursday, 15 March 2012 09:59   
Cisco has acquired the NDS Group, a leading provider of video software and content security solutions, due to the rapid growth of online video.
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Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire Makes His First Peep After The IPO Quiet Period Ends
From: TechCrunch - Kim-Mai Cutler | Thursday, 15 March 2012 00:00   
Brightcove is now being positioned to reach a broader based of customers.
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New adRise Connect Platform To Speed Video App Development
From: VideoNuze - Will Richmond | Wednesday, 14 March 2012 00:00   
The new adRise Connect will enable content creators to easily distribute video across multiple platforms.
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Online Video Romance In China
From: The Wall Street Journal - Tom Orlik | Monday, 12 March 2012 12:32   
Rivals Youku and Tudou Holdings are merging to form Youku Tudou to become the largest online video company in China.
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New Video Portal Proves Sticky - TumTiki Sees 50% to 70% of Visitors Keep Browsing
From: MediaPost's VidBlog - Daisy Whitney | Friday, 09 March 2012 15:50   
Frontier-Communications owned TumTiki video portal has found that 40 to 50 percent of its visitors are coming from outside the Frontier high-speed network.
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Mediamorph Raises $8 Million to Track and Measure All Digital Assets
From: VideoNuze - Will Richmond | Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:27   
Cloud-based digital asset tracker Mediamorph has secured an additional $8 million in funding allocated for expansion into Europe.
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Visible Meaures Gains Visibility: Gets Audited, Acredited By MRC
From: Online Media Daily - Joe Mandese | Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:33   
Online video tracking and measurement firm Visible Measures has been accredited by media industry ratings watchdog the Media Rating Council for a range of its core video metrics products.
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Brightcove prices IPO, raises $55M
From: Mass High Tech - Rodney Brown | Friday, 17 February 2012 15:03   
In its final prospectus filing made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Brightcove priced five million shares in its IPO at $11 per share.
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New YouTube producer terms let Google play your videos anywhere
From: VentureBeat - Tom Cheredar | Monday, 13 February 2012 21:23   
After announcing a new YouTube Google TV app yesterday, Google is now encouraging YouTube content partners to sign new terms that give the company permission to play their videos across all platforms (mobile, TV, web, etc.) by default.
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Blinkx Powers AOL Video Search
From: Online Media Daily - Gavin O'Malley | Monday, 13 February 2012 15:14   
Video search company blinkx has been tapped to power AOL's video search.
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Amazon exec: standalone Prime streaming video service isn’t likely
From: VentureBeat - Tom Cheredar | Friday, 10 February 2012 18:40   
Despite an aggressive push to increase its variety of TV shows and movies, Amazon isn’t planning to split off its Prime streaming video service into a standalone subscription offering, according to the company’s management team. At least not anytime soon.
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Online Video Competition is Everywhere; Like "The Hunger Games," or "Twilight"
From: MediaPost's VidBlog - Daisy Whitney | Thursday, 09 February 2012 16:38   
The online video segment has grown from a few key players to a much broader offering on media vendors.
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LA-based Viddy steals $6M from Silicon Valley VCs for social video
From: VentureBeat - Jolie O'Dell | Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:34   
Social video startup Viddy has raised its first round of institutional funding — a healthy $6 million from Silicon Valley venture firms.
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Flingo raises $7M to bring social TV to every network
From: VentureBeat - Devindra Hardawar | Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:32   
One of the largest TV app publishers you’ve never heard of, Flingo announced today that it has raised an additional $7 million from August Capital, which will help the company bring its Social TV technology to more devices and television networks.
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