DigiMeld, a startup offering its own technology for streaming live video online, has raised a $2 million first round from various unspecified angels. The NYC-based company pitches what it calls…

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Attitudes towards FiOS, Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) next-gen internet and video platform, are constantly changing, as investors alternate between dismay and optimism over the prospects of the $23 billion gambit. Saul…

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So perhaps internet video isn’t doing that much damage to traditional TV viewing after all. Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB), the UK’s official TV audience measurement body, said today that…

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International broadcast TV aggregator JumpTV’s (TSE: JTV) pretax net losses widened in Q2 to $11.4 million from $6.5 million a year ago. In Q1, the company posted a pretax loss…

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IPTV provider Entone Technologies has raised a $14.5 million second round funding led by Coral Capital Management. Previous backers, Menlo Ventures and Scale Venture Partner, also participated in the round.…

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Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is finally ready to launch its IPTV service in one of the biggest TV market in the country: New York City. It will launch its Fios TV…

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San Diego-based Verimatrix, which does watermarking and DRM for digital video for IPTV, pay TV and mobile TV, among others, has received an undisclosed amount in its third round of…

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Wazoo Sports, a site that broadcasts high school sporting events online, has raised $2 million from Meritus Ventures. The Kentucky-based company says it will use the funding to expand its…

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Halfway through 2008, iSuppli is out with its assessment of the IPTV market for 2007. IPTV sometimes gets used for all kinds of things, though in this case they’re talking…

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Internet video company KIT Digital (fka Roo Group) has raised another $15 million from accredited institutional investors, including, but not limited to major shareholder KIT Capital—which controls the company. The…

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Online video viewing source ZeeVee has completed an undisclosed, second round funding, giving the Littleton, Mass.-based company a total of “double-digit millions” to date, VentureWire reports (subscription only). Participants in…

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Red hot Move Networks, the heavily-backed provider of high quality online video streaming, has raised a huge $46 million third round led by Benchmark Capital, as well as Cisco (NSDQ:…

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Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, which earlier this week launched a new $500 million China-focused fund, will invest $12 million into a unit of Shanghai Media Group for the establishment of…

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South Korea’s dominant fixed-line and broadband operator Korea Telecom and Japanese telecom and internet group Softbank have partnered together to launch a $40 million investment fund aimed at delivering internet…

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Hollywood producer and talent agent Peter Safran’s deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to bring digital entertainment to the Xbox Live system represents a major expansion for both. As the NYT…

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Toronto-based IPTV/TV rebroadcaster JumpTV has reported Q4 revenue of $4.8 million, a major increase from the $748,000 it did in the year-ago period. The company’s $60 million acquisition of the…

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NYC-based Viewdle, a start-up doing video search based on facial recognition, has taken an unspecified strategic investment from KIT Capital, the investment firm that has essentially taken over Roo Group.…

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Ever since internet video firm Roo Group underwent a shakeup last December, we’ve been wondering about the status of News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) investment in the company, which was originally…

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Santa Clara, CA-based ZillionTV, a provider of pay TV services, has raised a $4.01 million first round, according to PE Hub. Investors include Sierra Ventures and Concept Ventures. The company…

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Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has reported Q4 revenue of $23.8 billion, up 5.6 percent from last year’s $22.6 billion. Net income increased 3.8 percent to $1.078 billion. The wireless business led…

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AT&T (NYSE: T) reported Q4 revenue of $30.3 billion, up 91 percent from last year’s $15.89 billion—largely due to the merger of AT&T and SBC. On a pro-forma basis, total…

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After starting with a fairly boilerplate introduction to Verizon (NYSE: VZ) at Citi’s 18th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference, COO and President Dennis Strigl was asked right off…

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Korea’s National Assembly has finally passed a law allowing telecom companies to offer real-time broadcasting over their broadband networks..in other words, they can offer IPTV services. So far, KT Corp,…

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Another tweak in Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) digital home efforts: it has quietly folded its IPTV software, Media Center, and HD DVD efforts into a single organization, known as the Connected…

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Ooyala, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of video distribution infrastructure, has received a big first found of funding from Sierra Ventures, paidContent.org has learned. The company, formed by ex-Googlers Bismarck…

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