Last week I reported that KIT Digital had acquired The FeedRoom, in a deal that will be announced today. But in addition to The FeedRoom, KIT Digital also acquired Germany based Nunet which will also be announced this morning. I'll post more on my thoughts about both of the acquisitions later in the week. Update: […]
KIT digital has agreed to buy NYC based The FeedRoom in a deal that will be announced by Monday. Employees of The FeedRoom will be moving from their current office to the KIT digital location on 5th Avenue. For KIT digital, this fits nicely into their plans of wanting to do more business in the […]
Tonight at 8pm ET, NBC will once again kick off the start of the NFL season by streaming 17 games this year on NBCSports.com and the NFL.com website. The service which will be powered by Silverlight and Microsoft's Smooth Streaming technology will offer a total of five different camera feeds, 720p HD quality, picture-in-picture functionality […]
I've only been on Twitter a few months now, but I think it is by far the most over-hyped, over-rated Internet application I've seen in the past fifteen years. What a waste. While many Twitter users talk about how it allows for such "meaningful conversations", that's a complete crock. The service is down every few […]
Each year I write a featured story for Streaming Media magazine that takes a look at the future of the CDN market and what I expect to happen in the near-term. This article is from the Aug/Sept issue of Streaming Media magazine, which should be arriving in subscribers mailboxes this week. You can sign up […]
At midnight last night, Roku and MLB publicly announced that baseball fans who have a MLB.TV Premium account can now stream live and on-demand games to the Roku. For those in the Roku developer program, the MLB.TV app showed up a few weeks ago and we've all been eagerly awaiting to try it out. My […]
While the larger CDN vendors targeting the media and entertainment market are still having problems growing their business, over in the enterprise vertical, many vendors involved with the video ecosystem inside the firewall continue to grow. The latest is Ignite Technologies, who last week told me they have now been "profitable for the last few […]