Vimeo has scooped up video-making app Cameo for an undisclosed sum. “Cameo is supposed to offer easy-to-use video-editing software that lets users create sophisticated effects, including the ability to combine video from multiple cameras,” Re/Code reports. “It’s the second time in the last year that IAC’s video site [Vimeo] has acquired a video app.” 

Opera Software has expanded its Opera TV Snap technology to more online video platforms including Brightcove Video Cloud and channel formats like Media RSS. Opera TV Snap enables content providers to package ready-to-run TV apps.. “video is the new document”?  We won’t go as far as that YET…but consumer behavior is certainly pointing in that direction.  In our personal and business lives, we have quickly become a nation of viewers, not readers.  ComScore’s U.S. Digital Future Report reporting that that 75 million viewers watch online …

Fake news stories and videos about the vanished Boeing 777 are appearing on Facebook and Twitter. But anyone who clicks onto one will likely be giving up some of their own personal information to scammers.

Target will feature dozens of products on a new episode of  the TBS comedy series. At the moment the products appear on television screens, viewers will be encouraged to purchase them on their second screens. The episode will be simulcast online at ShopCougarTown.com. 

Amazon is reportedly prepping a set-top box capable of playing games and streaming movies from multiple online platforms including Prime Instant Video, Netflix and Hulu Plus.

Google has launched a campaign to develop online videos in the fast-growing market of Saudi Arabia, where residents watch more hours of YouTube content per capita than anywhere else in the world.

Sen. Mitch McConnell was just trying to help his PACs by providing a bunch of random video of himself. But that all blew up. 

In a video, Firstmark Capital Co-Founder and Managing Director Rick Heitzmann discusses online video on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Surveillance.”

First it was President Obama with Zack Galafianakis's "Between Two Ferns." Now Michelle Obama has her own pitch video for the health care act, featuring stars including Jonah Hill, Alicia Keys and others...

Execs like "Bosch," "The After," "Mozart in the Jungle" and "Transparent," but pass on "The Rebels," says Variety. Still to be determined is the fate of five kids show pilots.  Amazon isn't commenting.