Online video leader YouTube will stream coverage of Beijing’s Olympic Games to 77 countries where digital rights haven’t been sold, the Associated Press reports, citing the International Olympic Committee. Olympics news, highlights and daily clips will be sent primarily to…
With News Corp. set to announce earnings Tuesday, analysts are looking to see if the media company is going to be able to wring profits out of its MySpace social-networking site, the Wall Street Journal says. Earlier this year, News…
NBC’s Olympics will take a big step toward increasing the amount of sports programming available to viewers on the Internet, the New York Times reports. College basketball, Major League Baseball, NASCAR and pro football viewers are also finding more of…
Pirate videos of the Olympics opening ceremony have already been pulled from YouTube and blocked in China, Daily Variety says. In spite of the leak, NBC Sports and Olympics chairman Dick Ebersol told the Hollywood Reporter the network is ready…
Former AOL chief and USA Broadcasting executive Jonathan Miller turned Internet investor Jonathan Miller in demand, with companies including Microsoft and Yahoo seeking his services, the Los Angeles Times reports. Miller gets high marks from industry moguls for having experience…
With investor Carl Icahn settled in with seats on the board, little drama is expected at Yahoo’s annual meeting today, USA Today reports. Since its last meeting, Yahoo rejected several takeover bids from Microsoft, including on that would have brought…
Mobile agency 4th Screen and Virgin Media have teamed to launch Virgin Mobile Advertising, Online Media Daily reports. 4th Screen will be in charge of planning and executing Virgin Media’s cross-media campaigns, the Web site notes. —Vlada Gelman
Google has purchased Atherton, Calif.-based startup Omnisio, which allows users to extract clips from videos on YouTube, Google Video and Blip.tv, Tech Crunch reports. Users then can mash the clips together to create their own embeddable compilations, the Web site…
AMCtv.com is streaming the entire original CBS/NBC News special from Feb. 14, 1962, featuring a tour of the White House with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Time magazine reports. A bit of the special was seen during the second-season premiere of…
Nielsen Mobile and Mediamark Research & Intelligence are launching Mobile-MRI, a research service that will provide behavioral, psychographic, demographic and product usage information on mobile users, MediaWeek reports. MRI recently ended its partnership with M:Metrics, which was acquired by comScore…