Deals, Mergers, Funding, Partnerships and Aquisitions in the Internet TV, IPTV and Web Video industry
Deals, Funding & Acquisitions
The BBC have already made its intentions to become a leader in the brave new world on online television distribution, thanks...
Revision3, the online video company headed by Digg’s Kevin Rose has reportedly inked a series of new deals which will see...
At the moment, it seems there’s a high level of confusion about how Web TV can be made to be profitable...
Anyone who regularly watches video on the Web, and if you’re reading WebTVWire, it’s a safe assumption that includes you, would...
Last year saw YouTube integrated in to Google Earth, allowing surfers to watch videos tagged with the locations they are viewing...
Ashley Highfield, BBC future media and technology director, and the man who has made the BBC iPlayer so successful in such...
The BBC iPlayer is the Web based television catch up service from the UK’s public broadcaster. Since launching last year, and...
Xbox 360 owners already have access to some full length movies and television shows via Xbox Live, but now a deal...
Whether the success of video sharing website YouTube is pleasing to you or not, it looks like the money could soon...
Steven Spielberg may be best known around the world as a movie director and film mogul, but he is also a...
Yahoo! may be going through a rough patch at the moment (read understatement of the year), with Microsoft launching a hostile...
Revver is one of the video start ups which suddenly became well known when the success of market leader YouTube took...
There has been widespread anticipation and rumours of a deal being concocted by Apple and Fox ahead of Macworld Expo ’08. ...
As regular readers of WebTVWire will know, Vuze is a video content distribution company built upon the P2P-based platform Azureus. It’s...
Back in September, we covered the launch of MyStrands.tv, the music video accompaniment to MyStrands, a social music network. At the...
It seems Britain’s three biggest broadcasters, namely the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, want a slice of the increasingly popular online...
Quarterlife is the new Web drama about twenty somethings, created by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. There were rumours even before...
Earlier this week, DivX announced they would soon be offering support for the Sony Playstation 3 games console. The codec technology...
I read an interesting news release a few weeks ago from Maven Networks on the Streaming Media website, about the formation...
Google have announced they are to partner with Nielsen, the company which measures television ratings across various demographics. Nielsen has set...
A great many publications today are telling the story of The Discovery Channel‘s owner Discovery’s plans to acquire HowStuffWorks.com for a...
Nokia has announced the addition of Sony Pictures and CNN to its growing list of media and video partners. Nokia are...
Tom Huntington, a spokesperson for DivX has announced that DivX, a growing video compression software company, has signed a two year...
BudTV has got a reprieve, and I must admit that on first reading about it being saved from the ashes, and...
It seems that Sling Media is about to be acquired for the princely sum of approximately $380 Million. Dave Zatz is...
Apple has recently inked a deal with a San Franciso based video advertising start up called Podaddies to develop advertising compatibility...
Odeo (formerly known as Sonic Mountain) has acquired FireAnt – a podcast and Vodcast directory. TechCrunch reports the acquisition to be...
ABC Entertainment and the Warner Bros. TV Group have signed a deal on streaming rights for upcoming WBTV shows. The shows...
