What’s the latest battle in the mobile app space? It’s probably going to be around automatically editing videos on mobile devices, as apps from cloud-based video editing services like Animoto and Magisto begin to emerge on the iPhone and other mobile devices. Read more »
Cloud video editing startup Magisto is coming to market with a new service that will take raw video files and make them worth sharing with friends and posting on Facebook. The company is also announcing $5.5 million in financing from Horizons Ventures and Magma Venture Partners. Read more »
Cloud-based video creation startup Animoto is ready to invest heavily in its growing business with a new round of funding it’s announcing Wednesday. The company has raised $25 million, led by Spectrum Equity Investors with participation from existing investors Madrona Venture Group and Amazon.com. Read more »
Flixlab wants to help you to produce videos with the clips and photos you record on your iPhone, and it now lets you access your friends’ footage as well. A new location-based feature makes it possible to collaborate on video production around an event. Read more »
What do you get when you cross Instagram’s funky filters with Animoto’s drop-dead simple video creation tools? Instamoto? Anigram? Whatever you call it, for many users it will be the perfect way to make interesting, visually stunning video slideshows on the fly. Read more »
Let’s be honest: Those videos you took during your last vacation — are you really ever gonna edit them? The growing amount of video footage on our hard drives can be intimidating, even with easy editing tools. Clipik wants to solve that issue by crowdsourcing video editing. Read more »
Animoto’s new partner program will put it in front of millions of potential new users. By hooking into photo galleries offered by Kodak and others and striking revenue-share deals, the program could increase usage of the service and revenues that it collects. Read more »
What do Bon Jovi and the world’s fastest supercomputer have in common? Presently, they both rely on GPUs. Bon Jovi has partnered with Animoto on a fan-video contest for each its current tour, a possibility made possible by Animoto’s transition to Amazon Cluster GPU Instances. Read more »
Motorola Looks to Unify 3-D TV Experience; company talks up set-top boxes that could convert 3-D TV video into any 3-D format. (Multichannel News) CE Manufacturer Earnings; Sony got roughed up with a net loss of 26.3 billion yen ($289 million) as opposed to a 20.8 […] Read more »
Animoto on Wednesday is launching long-promised functionality to include videos in its animated next-gen slideshows. Animoto CEO Brad Jefferson stopped by the brand-new GigaOM office on Tuesday and we played with the new feature. He explained that Animoto (see our previous coverage) is able to incorporate […] Read more »
