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YouTube CEO Chad Hurley to Step Down
San Bruno, Calif. - YouTube (NASD: GOOG) CEO Chad Hurley has announced
that he will step down from the position, and become and advisor within...
Wal-Mart's Vudu Video Service Coming to Boxee
San Francisco - Vudu, the streaming movie service owned by
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), said on Thursday that its service will be available on Boxee's
Web-to-TV platform, including...
Court Orders Triton to Pay Studios Over Pirate Website Ads
Los Angeles - A federal court has ordered online advertising
firm Triton Media to pay Hollywood movie studios Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Warner Bros. (NYSE:...
Report: DVD Kiosk Firm Redbox to Name Streaming Partner
Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. - Redbox, the operator of a network of
automated DVD rental kiosks, is expected to announce a partner for a planned
streaming video...
Report: Netflix Streaming Rights May Cost $2 Billion Through 2011
Los Gatos, Calif. - Online DVD rental and streaming video
service Netflix (NASD: NFLX) could pay as much as $2 billion through 2011 for the rights...
Live Video Webcaster Ustream Lays Off 4.5% of Staff
San Francisco - Ustream, a provider of live video webcast distribution
services, has laid off 4.5% of its staff, or 9 of 200 employees, TechCrunch
reported.
"This...
Report: Online Video Tops File-Sharing in Global Web Traffic
Los Angeles - Online video has surpassed peer-to-peer
file-sharing as the largest generator of global broadband traffic, according to
Cisco's (NASD: CSCO) Visual Networking Index Usage report.
...
Studios Sign On to Digital Entertainment Content ID Registry
Hollywood - A coalition of movie studios, pay-TV providers
and technology firms on Wednesday launched the Entertainment Identifier
Registry (EIDR), a not-for-profit global registry that aims...
MySpace Debuts 'Social Entertainment' Site Redesign
Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace online social network on
Wednesday unveiled a long-awaited redesign of the site in beta, which now
positions itself...
Rockabox Lands Funding for Online Video Distribution
London - Rockabox Media, a developer of online video
distribution technology, has secured an undisclosed amount of first round
financing from Frog Capital. Founded in 2008,...