YouAreTV Aims To Put Webcam Users In TV’s Frame

Josh Weinstein was only trying to create “Chatroulette for college students with pants on”. Instead, he stumbled upon the future of TV. Weinstein is CEO of YouAreTV, a video-chat tech startup that has spent the last couple of years developing tools help broadcasters take live video input from viewers. “We accidentally created an interactive game […]

 
 

WebRTC Lights Up Tokbox’s Video Chat Plans

After Tokbox closed its own-brand consumer video chat service in 2011, it began opening up its own technology to offer as a platform for rival services. Two years on, CEO Ian Small is thanking a Google-backed web video initiative for supporting his company. “A little over a year ago, Chrome introduced WebRTC,” Small tells Beet.TV. […]

 
 

Powering Google Hangouts, ‘Vidyo’ Expands Live Video Solution for Businesses, Healthcare

One name with which some in the online video business may not be overly familiar is Vidyo. The New Jersey-based provider of videoconferencing technology often sits in the background whilst its clients roll out products partly based on its code. “Google Hangouts (video chat) is built on the Vidyo technology,” Vidyo VP Ray Glynn tells […]