• Anybody Want To Buy Yahoo?
    With disappointing financial results, this Website contemplates suitable suitors for Yahoo. It been a takeover target in the past when it was valued much higher. Even now, there might be companies with deep pockets who might want to buy in.
  • Hearst Will Sell VOD 'CosmoBody' Exercise Videos
    Cosmopolitan on Tuesday begins a new online video channel,  CosmoBody, which will stream workout, lifestyle and wellness videos for $9.95 a month.
  • Trend In Online Video Ads? Try Shocking People
    Pepsi scored big with an ad in which a car salesman didn't know the maniac customer test driving the camaro was racer Jeff Gordon. For the All Star game, Pepsi has another surprise in store for a Minneapolis local baseball team that suddenly gets a chance to play in the big league park where the Twins play.   
  • Fox Will Stream All-Star Game Tuesday Night
    he network will stream the game live to the FoxSportsGo.com website and the Fox Sports Go app. The app is available for iOS, Android, and Kindle phones and tablets, as well as some Windows devices.
  • YouTube Could Fund More Premium Content Production
    YouTube is reportedly holding talks with producers big and small about financing premium content. The effort “could bolster a 3-year-old multimillion-dollar effort that has had mixed success so far,” Reuters reports. “The talks underscore Google Inc's desire to complete YouTube's transition from a repository for grainy home videos to a site sporting the more polished content crucial to securing higher-priced advertising.” 
  • TV Critics Get A Sneak Peek At 2 Future Online Offerings
    Amazon's "Transparent," about a middle-aged man (Jeffrey Tambor) who announces he'll have a sex change, was showcased for critics, and Hulu announced a quick turnaround for "South Park" episodes from Comedy Central one night, to Hulu right after. Also previewed was Hulu's new "Hotwives of Orlando," a parody of those stupid reality shows. Critics also saw and met the stars and creators of a DirecTV series, "Kingdom."
  • YouTube Searching Hollywood For Content Players
    YouTube is going around Hollywood, looking for the right content to improve its premium offerings. One executive said YouTube may offer between $1 million and $3 million to produce a series of programs, and might contribute marketing funds as well.
  • Youth Fantasy "Maximum Ride" Getting YouTube Series
    Media company Collective Digital Studio has partnered up with James Patterson to turn his best-selling young adult fantasy, “Maximum Ride,” into an online series for YouTube. “Collective Digital Studio, a production company and multichannel network with nearly 700 YouTube channels, is planning an initial batch of six to 10 episodes that will run at 10 to 15 minutes each,” The New York Times reports. 
  • Netflix Bites The Hands That Handle Its Feeds--Verizon and Comcast
    One major threat to the long-term survival of Netflix, which makes up nearly one-third of all Internet traffic, is that it relies on the Internet pipes ruled by such companies as Comcast and Verizon. That's why net neutrality deliberations by the FCC are fraught with risk for Reed Hastings
  • You Can See The World Cup Live, Give Or Take 10 Seconds
    The World Cup has broken records as the largest live event on the Internet. But it wasn't as much fun if your Twitter feed was telling you about a goal before you saw it "live" from ESPN or Univision.
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