CNN.com has followed its competitors MSNBC.com, FoxNews.com and CBSNews.com by allowing site visitors to embed news videos to their Web pages and blogs, Lost Remote reports. The news site also allows users to share the video via social networking sites…
Major League Baseball’s Bob Bowman confirmed live streaming of local games won’t be available any time soon, Silicon Alley Insider reports. The Advanced Media CEO suggested the games may be available online in perhaps five years. This is in contrast…
Summer was good to YouTube. The world’s biggest video-sharing site delivered 5 billion streams to nearly 78 million unique visitors in July, according to Video Census figures from Nielsen Online. That’s a 25% increase in volume from June, when YouTube…
For the first three days of the Olympics, Yahoo!’s Olympics Web site received about 1.3 million more hits than NBC’s site for the Games, NBCOlympics.com, Portfolio reports. NBC’s decision to stream the most popular sports after they’ve been aired on…
TMZ’s general manager Alan Citron is leaving the gossip site and heading over to the music-centric, social networking site Buzznet Inc., the Washington Post reports. Buzznet recently launched its own celebrity news site, Celebuzz, which naturally competes for the same…
ESPN and Major League Baseball have decided to extend and expand their current digital rights agreement through 2013, Fierce Wireless reports. Included in the agreement are live streaming of MLB games on ESPN’s ESPN360.com and tie-ins using alternative platforms such…
After regulators told Comcast Corp. to change how it manages Web traffic on its system, the company announced planes to slow service to its heaviest users during peak use times, the New York Times reports. Top Web-access speeds for the…
While the 2008 Summer Olympics have been huge ratings hits for NBC, NBCOlympics.com has also been drawing record audiences online, the Hollywood Reporter says. The site has been drawing an average 6 million users per day for an average of…
Comcast is looking to bring viewers interactive widgets on their TV screens, Multichannel News reports. The Widget Channel, developed by Intel and Yahoo, will allow developers to create customized widgets, computer programs that would let consumers access stock quotes or…
Liquid-crystal display panel makers are likely to boost earnings in the fourth quarter, according to a report released this week. That’s after lagging demand from China and an oversupply caused LCD panel prices to drop as much as 20% since…