The player: Cynthia Francis, CEO of Reality Digital, an online video technology company that creates video-rich social media Web sites for media companies. The play: Reality Digital operates as a white-label service to power online video for media companies and…
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Writers Guild of America members voted to give their leadership authorization to strike late Friday, with the guild claiming record-setting participation in the vote. The guild said 90 percent the votes approved of the strike. The authorization allows WGA leaders…
A coalition of media and Internet companies, created to develop a series of principles and standards governing user-generated content, on Thursday announced its guidelines for online video sites to protect copyrighted content and use filtering technologies. The companies involved are…
Google beat Wall Street’s expectations for its third-quarter earnings, posting a 46 percent increase in profits. The search giant said it earned $1.07 billion for the quarter, up from net income of $733.4 million a year ago. Revenue hit $4.23…
Mojo, the high-definition network geared toward upscale men, has secured the off-network rights to NBC’s sci-fi hit “Heroes.” The deal, through NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution, gives both Mojo and the G4 network the rights to repurpose current episodes of…
Online movie download service Vudu hired former Fox executive Mark Jung as chief executive officer. Mr. Jung was the co-founder and CEO of IGN Entertainment, an Internet company focused on gaming and digital entertainment. He sold IGN to News Corp….
User-Gen Video Site Vimeo Goes HD Video-sharing site Vimeo, owned by Barry Diller’s IAC, is slated to announce that it will be distributing HD-quality videos, according to a report in the New York Post. The video will have a resolution…
HD programming picks for Oct. 18-24: “Viva Laughlin,” “Happy Feet,” “Legend of the Red Dragon” “Viva Laughlin” (CBS HD). Thursday, Oct. 18, 10 p.m.: The series premiere of a drama with music about a man who faces several obstacles, including…