For now, it's for employees only. Called Target Ticket beta (find it at www.targetticket.com/home/beta), the service claims to offer “instant access to 15,000 titles, new releases, classic movies and next-day TV,” the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. The site requires a Target employee login to use.  Minneapolis-based Target on Thursday acknowledged it was testing the video service with its employees, but provided no details.

TiVo, the company that sparked the rise of time-shifted TV, now wants to give users a personalized cheat-sheet of what to tune in to right now — eventually incorporating suggestions from friends and critics’ picks.  

The second largest cable provider would join, News Corp., Disney and Comcast--the largest cable provider--as owners of the online video service. But News Corp. and Disney disagree on the path forward. Hulu's board has been looking for strategic investors.

Attorney General Eric Holder says that being able to classify illegal streaming as a felony, not just a misdemeanor, is necessary for the government to have in its toolkit.

What if a morning news show was shot using the rear view camera of a Toyota? It might look something like this...

It's just a virus Milos Zeman is suffering from! That's the official word. But many people in the Czech Republic have watched this video of the head of state and reached another conclusion about their president, who is proud to be a heavy drinker.

Netflix kept a healthy lead at 32.3 percent of downstream use on wired networks this past March. That's no mean feat when some of its competition took big strides forward -- YouTube jumped up to 17.1 percent, and Hulu likely rode sweeps season to get 2.4 percent.

Parks Associates released research showing 26% of U.S. broadband households own a smart TV and 46% own at least one set-top box. Furthermore, 63% of smart TV owners connect the set to the Internet, and 79% of these owners use the TV to watch premium online video on a monthly basis

It's just a virus Milos Zeman is suffering from! That's the official word. But many people in the Czech Republic have watched this video of the head of state and reached another conclusion about their president, who is proud to be a heavy drinker.

Online video search engine blinkx saw revenue grow by 73% to $198 million in fiscal year 2012, with basic earnings per share coming in at 4.8 cents, a 336% increase from 1.1 cents. The growth is in part attributed to the London Olympics and the Presidential elections as Web users logged on to view videos from 2012's big events. But strong growth in the broader online advertising industry in general also gave it wings, the company said.