141 Results for “layoffs”

Move Networks: The Story of a Failure

By Ryan Lawler Jun. 30, 2010, 2:30pm 5 Comments

With today’s news that Move Networks has laid off all its employees and is looking for a buyer, here’s a roundup of the rise and fall of the once high-flying startup, as it transitioned from making network TV watchable to selling IPTV technology to ISPs. Read More »

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Roku Adds UFC Channel to Sports Lineup

By Ryan Lawler May. 16, 2010, 9:01pm No Comments

Roku is boosting the amount of sports content it carries through a multiyear deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) that adds live pay-per-view events and archived matches to its broadband set-top box. It’s the third major sports deal for the set-top box maker. Read More »

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Roku Adds More Sports Content

By Ryan Lawler Apr. 26, 2010, 4:00pm 1 Comment

Sports fans with a Roku player will now be able to follow two professional sports leagues live, with the availability of MLB and NBA content streaming through the broadband set-top box. Channels for both leagues can be added to users’… Read More »

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The Case in Defense of Sony PlayStation’s The Tester

By Liz Shannon Miller Apr. 22, 2010, 2:46pm No Comments

When Sony announced the premise of its first reality series for the PlayStation Network in February, I wasn’t the only one who thought that a competition to win an unglamorous entry-level position was kinda dumb. Internet mockery didn’t, however, keep The… Read More »

Vid-Biz: Adobe vs. Apple, Irdeto, mDialog

By Ryan Lawler Apr. 13, 2010, 3:00pm 2 Comments

Adobe Might Sue Apple Over Apps; Sources say that Adobe will take Apple to court within a few weeks if the companies aren’t able to resolve an issue of whether or not Adobe can sell tools that will allow Flash developers to build iPhone apps. (Read More »

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Guest Column: The Online Video Landscape in 2010

By Mark Hall Feb. 12, 2010, 5:00pm 1 Comment

Liz Gannes had an interesting post yesterday, in the wake of the Veoh bankruptcy announcement, with a great chart outlining the huge volume of funding that has flowed to video sites over the years and how that has panned out. As a document, the… Read More »

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Vid-Biz: Viacom Earnings, Adobe Flash, Blockbuster

By Ryan Lawler Feb. 12, 2010, 8:30am No Comments

Viacom Beats Q4 Estimates; CEO Philippe Dauman, coming off a 4 percent decline in domestic advertising sales in the fourth quarter, said he expects the ad climate to improve in the first quarter. (Multichannel News) Adobe’s Flash 10.1 Coming to Smart Phones; the latest version of… Read More »

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Veoh Gives Up On Life, Preps For Bankruptcy

By Ryan Lawler Feb. 11, 2010, 2:24pm No Comments

After less than five years in business, Veoh has decided to shut down operations and lay off the remainder of its staff. It is also preparing to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection at some point in the near future, according to MediaMemo.… Read More »

Vudu (Finally) Abandons the Set-top Box

By Ryan Lawler Feb. 11, 2010, 9:30am 1 Comment

It’s been a long time coming, but over-the-top video company Vudu has finally stopped selling its set-top box, according to the NY Times, preferring instead to provide its software and video marketplace to consumer electronics manufacturers. Founded in 2004, Vudu released… Read More »

Move Networks Lays Off About 15% of Workforce

By Ryan Lawler Feb. 2, 2010, 4:00pm 4 Comments

Move Networks made some personnel reductions yesterday associated with a shift from its legacy streaming business to providing a platform for delivering IPTV services. According to a source, the company reduced headcount by about 10-15 percent, leaving the company with 107 employees total. The… Read More »

Revision3 Serves 1.5B Minutes of Video in 2009

By Liz Shannon Miller Feb. 2, 2010, 12:17pm 3 Comments

The network that Diggnation built had a great 2009, according to a release from today — Revision3 delivered over 1.5 billion minutes of video to its viewers while growing revenue by 30 percent. (No wonder they felt confident enough to offer Conan… Read More »

The Fall of Move Networks

By Ryan Lawler Jan. 26, 2010, 5:00am 10 Comments

Just a few years ago, Move Networks was a high-flying startup with what seemed like unlimited possibility. The company had succeeded where many video technology startups (and some incumbents) had failed to deliver — by providing high-quality video streams to the end user without having… Read More »

Statshot: Conan Wins the Week in Tweets

By Ryan Lawler Jan. 19, 2010, 11:17am No Comments

Even if he doesn’t have the support of NBC, Conan O’Brien has the support of the Internet, leading the charge as the most-talked-about television personality for the past week, according to Trendrr. Conan collected 215,145 tweets for the week, with a peak of 51,843… Read More »

Vid-Biz: Epix, Net Neutrality, BBC iPlayer

By Ryan Lawler Jan. 11, 2010, 8:00am No Comments

Premium Movie Channel Epix Coming To Cox; the cable provider confirms it has reached a deal to carry Epix, the premium movie channel started by Viacom, Lionsgate and MGM last year. (The Business Insider) Net Neutrality Hearing Totally Comcastic; During a hearing last Friday, a three-judge… Read More »

Jason Reitman Uses Vimeo to Show What It’s Like to Be Lost in the Air

By Liz Shannon Miller Jan. 7, 2010, 4:00pm No Comments

Of the five men and women nominated for best directing of a feature film by the DGA this morning, only one of them is an active Twitter user. He’s also the only one under the age of 35, and the only one who… Read More »

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