Articles of the Day
Google Lawyer: Copyright Protection For YouTube Video Almost Ready - Google will have “up, running, and effective”–hopefully in September–a new content-fingerprinting technology for YouTube that would resolve the entire issue at the core of the Viacom copyright infringement lawsuit, attorney Philip Beck told the judge overseeing the case in New York on Friday.
ValueClick Accelerates Q2 Earnings Statement - In the midst of a frenzied M&A climate, online advertising firm ValueClick accelerated its second-quarter earnings announcement by nine days and was scheduled to release the information in a call with analysts this morning. RBC Capital Markets analyst Jordan Rohan had downgraded the stock on Friday morning–citing weakness in the incentivized lead generation business.
Dailymotion Gains Ground In U.S.; Enters Deal With RDF - Looking more like a media company than a video-sharing site, Dailymotion late last week reached a deal to license programming from the reality TV producer behind “Wife Swap” and “Shaq’s Big Challenge.”
America’s Email Addiction: Benefit For Brands? - Consumers may be SPAM-wary, but according to new data from AOL, ad-supported email still represents a viable tool to garner impressions–as the Web giant revealed that email users check their mail an average of five times a day, and some 15% of all users think they’re “addicted” to email.
Startup Brings HD-Quality To Web Video - Web video startup Hotswap.com is stamping its claim to legitimacy, attracting investment from a pair of media industry billionaire-legends: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Clear Channel co-founder Red McCombs. No, Hotswap is not an online video sharing service; rather, its goal is to improve your online video viewing experience. Hotswap uses a compression technology to transform those fuzzy YouTube videos into HD-quality. Hotswap is currently applying for a patent.
How Amazon Beat the Street - Amazon.com co-founder/chief Jeff Bezos deserves serious kudos for the way his company is pulling away from the rest of the online retailing pack. He built a multibillion-dollar company without turning a profit for eight years, and somehow gets away with not charging for shipping–unheard of in the online retail business. Wall Street never thought it would work, but it turns out that Prime is largely responsible for the turnaround in Amazon’s fortunes. Analysts say Prime helped deliver a 35 percent rise in overall sales in the first quarter. Trading at $30 two years ago, Amazon’s stock last week shot up to a seven-year high: $86 per share.
What’s Pownce All About? - Among the tech elite, Pownce, the latest darling of the social networking industry, has more cachet than Facebook. You need an invite, that’s why. Within 10 days of announcing that invitations were required to join this latest endeavor from Digg co-founder Kevin Rose, invites were selling on eBay for as much as $10. Some believe Pownce represents social networking 2.0 because it encourages file-sharing between friends, which while popular, has never been the cornerstone of MySpace or Facebook. The combination of private messaging and file-sharing makes Pownce novel.
