Monday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines

Republican YouTube Debate Postponed? As we wrote last week, leading GOP candidates haven’t been enthusiastic about participating in September’s planned CNN-YouTube debate. Only John McCain and Ron Paul have committed, and Paul’s blog says the event is being postponed. (Washington Post, Ron Paul’s blog)

BuddyTV Raises $2.8 Million; so says peHUB. We’ve asked the company for confirmation and haven’t heard back yet. BuddyTV CEO Andy Liu confirmed the round. Interestingly, the funding for the television discussion and news site was led by Gemstar-TV Guide International. The company had received seed funding from Charles River Ventures. (peHUB)

Buzzwire Launches; mobile audio- and video-sharing site with backing from Matrix Partners and Spark Capital. (release, site)

Microsoft Ships Silverlight Release Candidate; would-be Flash killer is getting closer to the light of day. (PC World, Tim Sneath)

Click.tv Acquired? TechCrunch, after declaring the company dead last month, now floats an unconfirmed rumor that the video annotation service may have been acquired by Cisco. (TechCrunch)

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