Social video startup Viddy lays off a third of its staff

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.

Split-screen video app Streamweaver picks up $1.3M from former Facebooker & others

Mobile video recording service Streamweaver closed a $1.3 million round of funding today, the startup confirmed to VentureBeat.

Relive your top 2012 moments with this nostalgic instant video tool

Feeling nostalgic? Skip the endless status-update sifting and turn to startup Animoto to relive your top moments of 2012.

Social video chat app ooVoo now adding 1M users every 14 days

Social video-chat company ooVoo has added 7 million subscribers in the past 100 days, an impressive increase of 1 million users every two weeks,

Viddy rolls out an API for its white-hot social video service

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 …

Autodesk to buy hot video app Socialcam for $60M

Software company Autodesk has agreed to buy quickly growing video app Socialcam for $60 million, the company announced Tuesday.

Socialcam, along with video sharing rivals Viddy and Klip, aims to be the next “Instagram for video,” but the startup’s buy …

How Airtime plans to keep penises out of the picture

Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning’s new social video startup Airtime launched today with a celebrity-studded event, but no matter how many times Jim Carrey praised the service it was clear that it liberally borrowed the basic idea of Chatroulette and …

Napster founders launch social video startup Airtime with parade of celebrities, glitches

Airtime, the social video chat startup created by Napster founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, unveiled itself today after a long period of poorly-kept secrets and barely-muted hype.

Think of it as a less-icky Chatroulette with a $33 million wind …

Viddy adds 5.5M users in 11 days, signs on celebrity investors and partners

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 …

Twitvid relaunches as a social video network, adds support for channels

Social video sharing service Twitvid is launching an update to its website today that will transform it into a full-fledged social network.

Previously, the site was used as little more than a place to upload videos for Twitter and Facebook. …

Lights, camera, Klip: Social video startup raises $8M

As people’s pockets fill with camera-enabled smartphones the rush is on to be the top dog in social video sharing. Palo Alto video startup Klip announced today that it has raised $8 million in a second round of funding,  just …