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Mobile Broadcast Firm RoundBox Acquires Assets of Jacked

Florham Park, N.J. - RoundBox, a provider of mobile broadcast software, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired the technology and intellectual property of Jacked, a provider...

Rovi Acquires Recommendations Firm MediaUnbound

Santa Clara, Calif. - Rovi (NASD: ROVI) (formerly Macrovision), a provider of various digital entertainment technologies, has acquired media recommendation service MediaUnbound for an undisclosed sum. Cambridge, Mass.-based MediaUnbound was...

KIT digital Acquires Live Event Broadcaster Multicast for $18M

Prague, Czech Republic - KIT digital, a provider of software for video-on-demand services, announced on Monday that it has acquired Multicast Media Technologies, a live event...

Appeal of Pirate Bay Convictions to Commence Sept. 28

Los Angeles - The appeal of the convictions of the operators of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay has been tentatively scheduled to commence on Sept. 28,...

Viral Music Video Makers OK Go Part Ways With EMI

London - OK Go, the band that made the Rube Goldberg machine music video and recently had a public tiff with record label EMI over the...

YouTube Now Serving Ads on Mobile Sites in U.S., Japan

Mountain View, Calif. - Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube has begun serving ads on the mobile version of its website, which saw traffic grow by over 160% in...

Dailymotion Taps Auditude for Video Advertising

Palo Alto, Calif. - Auditude, a provider of video ad management and monetization services, announced on Tuesday that it will provide its services to Dailymotion, the France-based...

"Battlestar Galactica Online" Multiplayer Game Coming in Fall

San Francisco - NBC Universal has tapped publishers Bigpoint and Unity to create a massively multiplayer online game based on its "Battlestar Galactica" series on the Syfy...

LimeWire Adds AVG Anti-virus Protection to Premium Downloads

Amsterdam - File-sharing service operator LimeWire announced on Tuesday that it has added anti-virus protection from security firm AVG to its premium LimeWire Pro service. The partnership...

Report: U.S. Online Video Viewing Dips 2.5% in January

Reston, Va. - Online video viewing in the U.S. was down 2.5% in January, to 32.4 billion views, according to a report from Internet audience measurement firm...