Online video service Brightcove to launch in UK
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U.S. online video syndication firm  Brightcove announced content deals on Thursday with a host of  media groups in the UK to carry video clips on Web sites,  including online versions of magazines Heat, Nuts and Elle UK.
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Amazon.com made its anticipated entry into renting DVDs on the Internet on Thursday, launching a service in the United Kingdom that it says will charge as much as 30 percent less than its competitors.
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LONDON and SEATTLE, June 27  /PRNewswire/ -- thePlatform, the leading broadband video application service provider, today announced that BBC Global News will use thePlatform's media management and publishing system to distribute short-form video content to YouTube.
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The high-quality music download service is making the logical progression into high-quality downloadable video with the launch of VideoGiants.
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Users of YouTube's online video service will soon be able to view news, TV series, documentaries and other programs from the BBC.
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Questions will come via video submitted by ordinary people through the video-sharing Web site.
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Media & professional: The BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are developing a video downloads service that will 'do for broadband what Freeview did for digital TV'.
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(InfoWorld) - Broadcaster and Internet service provider British Sky Broadcasting GroupÂ (BSkyB) has asked GoogleÂ to host e-mail and other services for its broadband customers in the U.K. Their collaboration could also lead to the creation of targeted TV ads. Google will run mail services for users with addresses @sky.com, host a portal for user-generated video content, and deliver targeted search advertising on BSkyB's Web sites, the companies said Wednesday. In time, that targeted advertising could appear on TV, in the same way that Google is developing advertising sales platforms for broadcast radio and even print media. The digital video recorders that BSkyB offers subscribers to its Sky satellite TV channels are already able to deliver targeted advertising, although the company does not yet use that capability, according to BSkyB spokesman Robert Fraser. "Sky is already very tuned-in to the potential of delivering more-targeted ads to TV users," he said. "We will work together with Google to deliver targeted ads." The companies have set no timetable to introduce such a service, though: "It's an area for future development," he said. While BSkyB's business revolves mainly around broadcasting professionally produced content, the deal with Google will take it into new territory: The companies also plan to build a video portal featuring content generated by Sky subscribers. It will run on systems developed by Google for its Google Video portal, but will be branded as a Sky service, the companies said. The video portal will allow Sky customers to see only content posted by other Sky customers, said Google spokesman DJ Collins. However, content posted by Sky users will also be visible to other users of theÂ YouTube service that Google acquiredÂ in November, he said. Analysts at OvumÂ said that user-generated content is an essential element of any portal. But they wondered why BSkyB isn't making use of MySpace.com, which also belongs to News Corp., the parent company of BSkyB. BSkyB began life as a satellite TV broadcaster. Following itsÂ acquisition of U.K. ISP Easynet GroupÂ in October 2005, BSkyB launched its own broadband Internet access service in July. That service is available only to subscribers to the Sky satellite TV services. The company has 8.3 million subscribers, and aims to have 10 million by the end of the decade, with 3 million of them subscribing to the broadband service, Fraser said.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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New startup WeGame has just launched a beta version of their site which lets you record and share game videos.
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GE Commercial Finance - Global Media & Communications today announced that its Technology team has provided growth capital financing to Brightcove, an Internet TV pioneer. GE was the lead lender of the $5 million facility, which closed September 1.
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The growing popularity of small-screen video devices is ushering in a new era of content to go with them.
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InfoWorld - In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone Group announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube.
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The UK Web site of Amazon.com Inc.  is launching a DVD rental service, the online retailer's first foray into a market pioneered by U.S.- based Netflix. Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- It&#39;s been widely speculated that e-tail giant Amazon would one day set its sights on Netflix&#39;s business, and on Thursday it confirmed that prediction, launching a DVD rental service in the United Kingdom.
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Amazon.com announced to today that they have launched their DVD Rentals service for its UK customers. The service offers to plans right now.
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Altus Learning Systems unveiled a new portal that can be used to add Web 2.0 technologies to its hosted video systems for recording corporate training sessions and events
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LONDON -- The British Broadcasting Corp. said Friday that it has signed a deal with Google Inc.'s YouTube that will allow the popular Web site to show excerpts of the broadcaster's news and entertainment programs.