Deals, Mergers, Funding, Partnerships and Aquisitions in the Internet TV, IPTV and Web Video industry
Deals, Funding & Acquisitions
SeeSaw may not be shutting after all, with buyers possibly queuing up to stage a last-minute buyout. One of which is...
We don’t tend to cover rumors here on WebTVWire, mainly because a lot of them turn out to be absolute bunkum....
VYou is a shortform conversational video social network that has recently been given a boost both in terms of money and...
Hulu could be about to launch in Australia. Or possibly not. In order to do so the U.S. company is going...
YouTube Movies has just taken a turn for the better thanks to a huge influx of new content. YouTube has taken...
A case which has been running since all the way back in 2004, when the television business looked very different than...
Spotify has indirectly denied reports it’s planning to launch a movie streaming service to go with its music streaming service. But...
Although YouTube has been offering movie rentals for a while now, very few people have been using the service. But maybe,...
The Web is increasingly becoming a place where creative ideas are being conceived and brought to life. And Web video series...
Hollywood still has a chance to prevent itself from losing customers and face from an unwillingness to embrace the Internet. Whether...
Netflix could be facing an uncertain future if the example being set by Showtime is followed by others. Content is becoming...
Netflix is changing gears, getting into original programming rather than merely licensing content which has already appeared on other channels or...
YouTube really loves us all uploading video to the site. The problem is the quality of these videos can sometimes be...
Google has acquired Next New Networks as a key part of its strategy to bring more and better original content to...
Clicker has become part of the CBS family, with the latter acquiring the former. As part of the deal, Clicker CEO...
The BBC is committed to expanding its iPlayer service beyond the borders of the U.K. And it looks as though it...
Google looks set to acquire Next New Networks, home of Auto-Tune The News, amongst others. Its reason for doing so? To...
Yahoo’s Yahoo! Connected TV platform may be set to get some licensed video-on-demand content from Disney. That’s the same Disney which...
Take one software platform which needs hardware to reach viewers, and one new hardware manufacturer that needs as much content as...
Hulu is reportedly preparing to go public with a $2 billion IPO (Initial Public Offering). This would raise somewhere in the...
AOL has clearly got too much cash and ambition right now. On the same day it acquired tech blog TechCrunch, the...
Apple has big plans to open up a TV content rental market to the mainstream. However, to make it work it...
Metacafe may not have achieved its initial aim of competing with YouTube on a level playing field, but it’s far from...
International rights licensing is the bane of the lives of those of us eager to see online video reach its full...
The good news is that Apple is pushing to secure a 99-cent price for individual episodes of shows for its customers....
Broadcasters and content owners are slowly but surely coming around to the idea of online video, as long as they remain...
Facebook is now huge, with 500 million users worldwide. That’s quite an audience just waiting to be tapped into by those...
Netflix is committed to a future where streaming video takes precedence over everything else. Which is why it’s investing so heavily...
Like it or not, the major record labels may have finally cottoned on to this whole Web thing. At least when...
Netflix clearly sees online video streaming as its future, and the future of media distribution as a whole. Which is why...
