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The Piracy Police Get Caught With Their Pants Down

The RIAA and MPAA have been complaining about piracy of music and movies for years. They've sued individual users for exorbitant amounts of money and were a huge part of the driving force of SOPA & PIPA (some would say they were the only driving force). Their profits have been cut into and that's stealing, ...

Is Vimeo For Sale? Sources Claim IAC Asking $300M For Vimeo

PandoDaily--the tech news website started by former TechCrunch employee, Sarah Lacy, and staffed with several former TechCrunch writers--got a pretty big scoop yesterday, assuming it turns out to be accurate. According to "two sources familiar with the situation," IAC is considering an attempt to sell off their video property, Vimeo. The plan is to try ...

Netflix Users Spend Twice As Much Time On Site As Hulu Users

Maybe Netflix was right after all. No, not in the way they handled their price increase, but maybe in their logic for creating the increase in the first place. See, we've always assumed that Netflix's price hike this summer was about setting the stage for streaming video as the primary service for the future. And ...

Google TV Gets Adult Video Channel From Vivid Entertainment

Let's all be mature adults about this topic, okay? After all, I think there are some interesting implications for the video industry as a result of this news. What news, you ask? The news that Google TV is getting a dedicated adult video channel from adult video production company Vivid Entertainment, giving existing Vivid subscribers ...

AOL Expands HD Video Offerings to Samsung, Google TV with New App

AOL has announced a new version of their creatively named AOL HD app, which is now available for Samsung Smart TVs and Google TV. You might remember that it was originally available on Roku, Boxee, DivX TV, and Yahoo! Connected TV.

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Google Plus Stampede Edition

Seems like just a handful of major companies dominated the past week in online video. There were numerous stories and opinions about the public launch of Google Plus. Netflix prompted headlines galore with a huge announcement, and questions continued to surround the possible sale and future of streaming site, Hulu.

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Internet TV Edition

Greetings, and a good Sunday morning/afternoon to you. If you're like me, you had a pretty busy week. And if that's the case, then there's a good chance you missed a major news story or fantastic editorial article in the world of online video. But fear not. This weekly column exists as a way for ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Google Edition

Another week has flown by and, as usual, there was too much online video news to keep up with it all. Thankfully for you, we have created this weekly online video news round up, which collects the very best news stories, opinions, and tips from around the web and compiles them all in one handy ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Hulu Rumor Edition

This week we have an online video news round up first: I'm just as interested in catching up on the news as you are. I've been out of the country for about a week, and haven't had my usual leisure time to keep up to date with the latest video news. So I'll be using ...

Q&A Service Quora Adds YouTube Video Embeds

Q&A services are all the rage right now, with sites like Quora and formspring adding tons of new users and piling up the archives of content. And now Quora is taking a huge leap forward in engaging content by adding the ability to embed YouTube videos inside of their Q&A pages.

Facebook Video To Be Powered By Ooyala Online Video Platform?

This much we know is true: Facebook is having some kind of big-announcement press event tomorrow. CEO Mark Zuckerburg has reportedly said it will be "awesome." And shortly after the speculation began, TechCrunch declared the announcement would be a partnership with Skype to bring video chat to Facebook. But now we're hearing serious rumors that ...

Next Week's "Awesome" Announcement Will Be Facebook Video Chat

Facebook CEO has said that his company will make a major announcement next Wednesday, and that it will be "awesome." And that's pretty much all it takes to get the tech world buzzing. It promises something big, but also keeps things mysterious so we can all speculate. And just as I was writing a post ...

New 'As Seen On' Pages Curate The Videos You Embed

YouTube loves dropping casual news items on Friday, usually without any fanfare whatsoever. Like earlier today when they announced HD Preview Images and the ability to remove the YouTube logo from embedded video clips. And I guess they had one more announcement to make before their week was done: the creation of "As Seen On" ...

YouTube Videos Will Now Have Google's +1 Social Button

Oh joy. The grand social networking experiment from Google, called Plus One (or, +1) is expanding, and now it's coming to YouTube. Now you can let everyone in your (Google) network know about what videos you're watching, or find new videos for your own enjoyment by checking out the recommendations of your friends. While I'm ...

Microsoft Buys Video & Messaging Company, Skype, For $8.5 Billion

Seemingly out of nowhere, Microsoft has acquired Skype for $8.5 Billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. There were rumors last night of the deal, and that was the first I'd heard of this possible deal. Now, half a day later, it's official. The move is seen as an attempt by Microsoft to remain competitive ...