Is Google Buying Brightcove?
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Both Silicon Alley Insider and Mashable are reporting that Google is in talks to buy Web video provider Brightcove for $500 million to $700 million. If true, The move would make...
Yahoo Lowers Payments To Publishers
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Yahoo recently notified Yahoo Publisher partners (third party sites that display Yahoo cost per click ads) that they should expect to see new “pricing adjustments” which will b...
Adobe Adds DRM To Flash
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Adobe Systems Inc. is adding a new digital rights management (DRM) component to its Flash video technology that will allow users to download and watch content in-browser even when ...
SuperChirp Lets Twitterers Get Paid For Twits
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TechCrunch is reporting on a new Twitter service called called Super Chirp that lets Twitter users get paid for their content. According to the blog, Super Chirp uses Twitter’s ...
Google, Taking On Amazon, Plans To Sell E-Books
At the annual BookExpo convention in New York City over the weekend, Google said it plans to introduce a program that would enable writers and publishers to sell digital versions of their books direc...
Now Embed All Kinds Of Google Stuff With Web Elements
At Google’s I/O conference this week the company unveiled a new set of widgets called Web Elements that allow users to quickly integrate Google’s most popular products such as Maps, Calendar ...
Investor’s Business Daily And Mochila Strike Syndication Deal
Investor’s Business Daily, publisher of in-depth financial news geared to personal and professional investors, recently announced a partnership with Mochila, a premium content syndication technolog...
The New OpenX Ad Market
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OpenX the large neutral online ad server for website publishers, recently announced OpenX Market, an independent marketplace which allows publishers the ability to directly conn...
Y Combinator Trying To Help Proto-Investors
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Paul Graham of Y Combinator is putting on an event called AngelConf that hopes to show prospective tech and business investors how it all comes together. The event will be held on...
Big Payday From blip.tv
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Beet.tv picked up on a story in USA Today about Blip.tv paying emerging video producers as as much as $40,000 in advertising revenue.
Andy Plesser, executive pr...
