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YouTube co-founder announces video collaboration site MixBit

YouTube co-founder announces video collaboration site MixBit
  • Posted April 1, 2013, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web
  • Following up from a brief teaser in a Q&A session at SXSW three weeks ago, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley has formally announced his new online video venture, dubbed MixBit. The site itself hasn’t launched yet, but the timing for the…

YouTube celebrates one billion monthly unique users

YouTube celebrates one billion monthly unique users
  • Posted March 21, 2013, 12:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, The Web
  • While most of us deal with "dozens" or even "hundreds" on a daily basis, YouTube deals with numbers in the billions. It appears the eight year-old video service has hit its latest milestone of one billion unique users each month. …

Yahoo in talks to buy majority stake in video site Dailymotion

Yahoo in talks to buy majority stake in video site Dailymotion
  • Posted March 20, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Yahoo is reportedly in talks to purchase a controlling stake in online video website Dailymotion. The Internet pioneer could be prepared to buy up to 75 percent of the company as part of an ownership structure according to people familiar…

YouTube co-founder to launch new video-based venture

YouTube co-founder to launch new video-based venture
  • Posted March 11, 2013, 3:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Six years after selling YouTube to Google in a deal valued at $1.65 billion, co-founder Chad Hurley is ready to jump back in the online video business with something that’s flexible enough “for people to work together and create content.”…

Nielsen "TV household" ratings to include cord-cutters without TVs

Nielsen "TV household" ratings to include cord-cutters without TVs
  • Posted February 22, 2013, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Nielsen will soon expand its TV ratings system to include online viewers, it told clients yesterday. Armed with its broadened definition of what constitutes a "TV household", Nielsen hopes to more accurately reflect modern day media consumption and advancements in technology…

YouTube adds automated caption translation for 300 languages

YouTube adds automated caption translation for 300 languages
  • Posted September 26, 2012, 8:30 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • YouTube has announced the latest addition to its very own video editor: automated caption translation for over 300 supported languages. The Caption Translation Manager utilizes Google's Translate and Translator Toolkit in order to work its magic. Alternatively, video authors can…

Hulu has 1.5m subscribers, commits $500 million to 2012 content

Hulu has 1.5m subscribers, commits $500 million to 2012 content
  • Posted January 13, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • Hulu has closed another fruitful year, expanding 60% from 2010 to approximately $420 million in revenue, according to CEO Jason Kilar. Despite a "soft advertising market" in the second half of 2011, the site's ad business grew aggressively. The company…

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