Deals, Mergers, Funding, Partnerships and Aquisitions in the Internet TV, IPTV and Web Video industry

Deals, Funding & Acquisitions

NBC Shifts Video Content To Amazon Unbox

NBC recently announced that it has chosen Amazon over the almighty Apple and will be migrating their digital video content to...
Tanya
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Amazon Deal Means Tough Times For NBC On The Web | How Long Until They Beg Apple?

Who came off better and worse in the recent Apple NBC iTunes debacle? The Internet is buzzing with opinions and viewpoints...
Paul Glazowski
3 min read

OnTheToob | Joost Snaps Up Independent Development Talent

Joost has just acquired Hal Schechner’s OnTheToob. On the back of the wave of independent developers contributing helpful features to Joost,...
Fraser MacInnes
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Dailymotion Receives Extra $34 Million | Online Video Company Gets New Funding

Dailymotion have announced that it has weaned $34 million from investors pockets during its second round of VC solicitations. The company...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

DRM Comes To YouTube With MCPS-PRS Alliance Deal

YouTube has brokered a deal with the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society – Performing Right Society Alliance (MCPS-PRS Alliance forthwith) in order...
Fraser MacInnes
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NBC TV Shows Dropped from iTunes | NBC Wanted More Money and DRM

NBC got a little greedy yesterday when it decided to drop its contract with iTunes to sell digital downloads of TV...
Chris Tew
2 min read

Hulu | NBC & News Corps Joint Online Video Venture Gets A Name & Website

We’ve known for a while about the joint video venture between News Corporation and NBC Universal. This coupling had earned a...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

YouTube on Your Mobile | New LG Handsets to Make it Simple

LG and YouTube have announced an agreement to provide YouTube services on some new LG mobile handsets. LG will apply a...
Clayton Moulynox
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Skype Partners With Dailymotion & Metacafe | Unveils Skype 3.5, Includes Ability To Share Videos

Skype 3.5 for Windows was released to the public a few days ago, and to coincide with this upgrade, Skype and...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

eBaum’s World Online Video Portal Gets Bought Out | Handheld Entertainment Pay $17.5 Million

Handheld Entertainment has purchased the viral online video portal eBaum’s World. They paid $15 million in cash and another $2.5 million...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

GeoBeats Partner With blinkx | Avoiding Holiday Hiccups With Broadband Video

Time for rest and recuperation is essential which is why it is important to avoid any unnecessary stress when you go...
Fraser MacInnes
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Veoh Adds NCAA Football Channel | Unique and Interactive

Fans of American College Football will soon be able to watch highlights of games on their desktops – Veoh Networks and...
Clayton Moulynox
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DMGI Choose Telestream Episode Series Transcoding Tools

Telestream, a leading provider of media workflow solutions (basically easing the process of getting video ready for broadcast), has announced that...
Fraser MacInnes
48 sec read

Theseus Google-Beater To Index Video By Images | Backed By EU’s $250 Mil

The European Union is backing Theseus, an alleged Google-Beater search engine to the tune of $250 million, half from public tax...
Hal Licino
58 sec read

Buddy TV Scoops $2.8 Million from GemStar TV Guide

Gemstar-TV Guide International has allocated $2.8 million in Series A funding to Seattle-based BuddyTV, part of the Advanced Media Research Group...
Hal Licino
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Heavy.com | Providing Original Internet Video Content to Cable TV

Heavy.com, which claims to be the leading web consumer media company for 18-34 year old males, has done a deal to...
Clayton Moulynox
51 sec read

Veoh Hires Mitgang as CEO

Online video company Veoh Networks Inc has announced the hiring of Steve Mitgang, formerly of Yahoo!, as its new CEO, replacing...
Kevin Groppe
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Amazon Unbox | Now Delivering Directly to your TiVo Box

Internet TV and web based video streaming is gaining popularity daily, and you know it’s closer to mainstream take-off when big...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

Actober.com | Major League Baseball Launches New Video Web Site

On the eve of its annual All-Star game, Major League Baseball has announced actober.com, a new video archive web site that...
Kevin Groppe
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Freewire TV | Cable & Wireless & Inuk Networks Launch UK’s First National IPTV Service

Cable & Wireless and IPTV platform company Inuk Networks have announced a new a $140 million IPTV deal. Inuk Networks will...
Chris Tew
1 min read

AOL & YouTube Partnering on Video Search?

Take a look at the screenshot above of what I just found on the AOL Video Portal. That’s right! That is...
Chris Tew
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