Viddy is apparently planning to reduce its operations and marketing workforce by cutting 12 positions (or a third of its total employees), a report says.
Viddy CEO and cofounder Brett O'Brien has been ousted from his role as head of the company after losing much of its buzz to Twitter-owned Vine and reportedly turning down an insane buyout offer from Twitter.
With outlandish lawsuits, a botched IPO, and a detailed social record of historic world events, 2012 will be remembered as a year of extreme highs and lows in social media. Here are the top 10 social stories that defined the year.
Video-sharing application Viddy landed on Android devices today after long being available only on the iPhone.
The media conglomerate teamed up with a pair of technology companies to bring social-video to mobile word games.
Capitalizing on a successful past few months, Viddy has launched a public API that will allow developers to use the social video service within third-party apps, the company announced today.
Viddy produces an iPhone application for shooting 15-second clips that …
Oh, boyfriend. Pop superstar Justin Bieber has joined video-sharing sensation Viddy.
The “Boyfriend” singer took a mini break from promoting his coming-soon album “Believe” on Twitter to solicit a little Viddy love from his almost 22 million Twitter followers — …
Smoking-hot mobile video-sharing startup Viddy has closed a $30 million financing round and is fast-approaching 30 million registered users.
If you’ve taken a two-month hiatus from the Internet, then you’ve most certainly missed Viddy’s overnight comeuppance. The one-year-old company makes …
While everyone is trying to predict which video sharing app will be the true “Instagram for video,” the massive surge in popularity for video apps could also become a problem for the online video mainstay YouTube.
As consumers move towards …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made his mark on the fast-growing video sharing startup Viddy, after signing up for the service and sharing a video of his dog. The move has tech watchers eyeing many comparisons to Viddy and just-purchased …
If Instagram is worth an eye-popping one billion dollars, who’s to say the fast growing Viddy, which lets users easily record videos, apply filters and share with friends, isn’t on the same rocket ship trajectory.
The company, founded in April …
Fresh after receiving a vote of confidence from Silicon Valley venture firms and rocketing to fame through Facebook, social video application Viddy is getting the red-carpet treatment from Hollywood.
Singers Shakira and Jay-Z and actor Will Smith join other high-profile …
Hang on to your seats, kids. An application for shooting and sharing pretty little videos is rocketing through Facebook and picking up new users at whirlwind speed.
Social video app Viddy added 300,000 new users yesterday, bringing its total to …
First, it was the lifestyle apps. Then, it was the media apps. Now, video apps are reporting huge growth numbers from launching Timeline-friendly features for Facebook.
Today, Facebook issued some interesting stats from a slew of video companies, including heavy …
Coinciding with the South by Southwest festival in Austin, a slew of major companies are finally offering apps for Facebook’s new Timeline.
The new Timeline apps include Foursquare, VEVO, The Onion, Fandango, and others.
The new apps join more than …
Social video startup Viddy has raised its first round of institutional funding — a healthy $6 million from Silicon Valley venture firms.
Battery Ventures led the round, which also saw participation from Qualcomm. Outside the Valley, New York’s Greycroft Ventures …
