Video-sharing site Veoh wins suit against Universal
Veoh, a video-sharing web site that is a perennial punching bag for entertainment studios prosecuting copyright violations, has emerged victorious from the lawsuit filed against it by Universal Music Group two years ago. According to the judge in the case, Veoh is protected under the… Continue Reading
Confirmed: Major Veoh restructuring, layoffs
Online video service Veoh is said to be undergoing a major restructuring tomorrow, a source close to the company tells me, that could include large layoffs and a potential change to its product strategy. [Update: We’ve since confirmed the layoffs and restructuring, more at the… Continue Reading
Web TV studio For Your Imagination gets its funding wish
Online television studio For Your Imagination nabbed an undisclosed amount of funding from OmniReliant Holdings in a bridge capital round this week. The investor, primarily interested in direct marketing opportunities (with a focus on beauty and skincare products), will get an equity interest in the… Continue Reading
Roundup: Veoh wins copyright case, Microsoft launches IE8 beta 2, how the iPhone 2.0.2 update fixes connection issues and more
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Veoh wins in court, YouTube claps — A federal judge ruled that Veoh was not infringing on copyrights by letting its users upload videos to the site. This is an important ruling because it sets a precedent for the similar, but much larger… Continue Reading
Roundup: Americans watch 12 billion online videos, Tesla breaks production logjam and more
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Americans watched 12 billion online videos in May — That’s up 45 percent compared to the same period in 2007. While Google’s sites — especially YouTube — remained dominant, accounting for 34.8 percent of videos watched, Fox Interactive Media (owner of MySpace) climbed… Continue Reading
Roundup: Veoh to get ABC content, the shrinking venture capital industry and more
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Veoh to get ABC content, kind of — ABC, the television network that has been the slowest and stingiest in making its content available online, has struck a deal with video site Veoh that seems, well, behind-the-times and stingy. Veoh will index ABC’s… Continue Reading
Veoh grabs another $30 million for a healthy valuation well over $100 million
Veoh, which brands itself as an Internet Television service rather than one of the many online video start-ups, has received a new large round of funding. As you might expect, this money will be used for expansion efforts and Veoh continues to grow
By the end… Continue Reading
Roundup: Smaller social networks growing, Stage6, Sandvine and more
1. Niche social networks grow, market leaders level off
2. Startup employees headed to big companies?
3. Stage6 had a lot of would-be investors, still has at least one
4. Sprint’s fate unclear
5. Sandvine, a company that helped Comcast block BitTorrent traffic, facing trouble
6. Chatterous: Message all of… Continue Reading
Veoh is raising a round, claims to be pretty big and growing
Updated with more information from the company
Online video startup Veoh is in the process of raising a $40 million round at a proposed $150 million valuation and has hired investment bank Bear Sterns to help with the effort, Silicon Alley Insider reports.
San Diego-based Veoh is… Continue Reading
Roundup: Google’s RSS search, VC sells blog, Veoh sued, Groxis and more
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Google adds search to Reader — In an obvious but very useful move, Google Reader, the company’s web-based RSS feed reader, has added the ability to search through your RSS subscriptions, or the categories and tags you use to organize them. So… Continue Reading
Roundup: Veoh sues, MySpace’s tiny profit, Nirvanix, Wikipedia’s color-coding, more
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Veoh Networks files preemptive suit against Universal Music Group — Veoh, the San Diego video start-up we’ve written about, said it filed the suit to assert its rights as a copyright-compliant company after UMG threatened it with litigation.
Geni gets cloned by a German… Continue Reading
Veoh launches VeohTV, a high-quality TV for desktop too
Veoh, the video-sharing site that recently raised $26 million, today launches a test of VeohTV, a downloadable application that the company says will kill another new flashy competitor, Joost.
VeohTV’s hook is that unlike Joost, which limits itself to certain formats and the content it licenses,… Continue Reading
Veoh, the high-quality video sharing site, raises $26M
(Updated with Comscore and Hitwise stats, which show Veoh’s numbers lower than the company states; also updated with a fuller list of investors)
Veoh, the San Diego video-sharing site backed by former Disney exec Michael Eisner, has raised another $26 million in funding, giving it a… Continue Reading
Roundup: TrenchMice, Pheedo’s new ads, and more
The latest roundup of tech stuff:
TrenchMice, a nice F***ed Company? — TrenchMice is a new site trying to mobilize people to submit and edit comments about businesses and employers. Let us know what you think. We tried using it to look for info on Google, and… Continue Reading
PayPal’s “other” story, and Wikio, Infinera, Zoho, Omnidrive & more
Roundup of the latest action in Silicon Valley & tech:
PayPal’s origin explored, one more time — Online payments company Paypal has spawned more Internet entrepreneurs from its founding team than any other company we know. Yet PayPal had a rushed and tumultuous birth; if you’re curious… Continue Reading