Since 2007, CEO and co-founder Jason Liebman has overseen tremendous growth at Howcast, one of the leading how-to providers online, which streams tens of millions of videos every month. Today, he dishes about “viral video,” the lack of standards and Howcast’s approaching profitability. Read More »
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Comic-Con is a great gorgeous whale of pop culture, and if you approach the event as a microcosm of media today, then the way web content has squeezed itself into this five days of panels, exhibits, events and parties is mirrored accordingly. Read More »
Jason Krikorian, one of the co-founders of SlingMedia left the place shifting start-up in January 2009 and since then has been taking it easy. But now he has now decided to go back to work. He is joining Doll Capital Management as a general partner. Read More »
On today’s investor relations call, Google CFO Patrick Pichette said that Google’s years-long legal battle with Viacom cost a total of $100 million in legal fees. And the case never even went to trial. Read More »
Snapfish by HP has acquired the video technology platform behind the personal video-sharing site Motionbox, according to an emailed release. The buy means that Snapfish.com users will be able to use the service to upload and share video in addition to still images. Read More »
In an interview, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar talks about the future of his three-year-old company, competition with Netflix and Apple, cooperating with content partners, broadband and his company’s newest offering — Hulu Plus, a subscription service that will help the company get content to connected devices. Read More »
The Pirate Bay, the file-sharing network based in Sweden, has apparently been hacked by a trio of Argentinian programmers. The group claims to have downloaded the site’s entire user database, including the names, IP addresses and email addresses of the network’s 4 million registered users. Read More »
Thirty-four percent of U.S. cell phone users surveyed in May said they use their phone for recording video, up from 19 percent the year before, according to a new study from Pew. And those users are likely to share their creations, with big implications for carriers. Read More »
Google and Netflix stocks are moving in opposite directions — down 29 percent for the search giant and up nearly 99 percent for the video company. Their stock trajectories speak volumes about their strategies and their ability to focus on their core strengths. Read More »
Just in time for the Fourth, Auditude CRO Mike Gaffney shows us his recipe for homemade BBQ sauce and grills up chicken on the bone and three magic words: cheese, filled, sausage. Join us for some summer fun on our new GigaOM TV series BBQ&A. Read More »
Skype wants to push voice and video chat beyond the PC, and with SkypeKit, its new software development kit, it can. The VoIP leader is looking to mimic Netflix’s success in the connected TV and device space using its SDK. Here’s why it just might succeed. Read More »
uTorrent, known as one of the most popular and P2P file sharing clients for Windows, is coming to the Mac: A first 1.0 stable version is available now for download, and uTorrent maker BitTorrent Inc. is planing to soon offer feature parity between the two versions. Read More »
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