Andy Plesser

Thomson Reuters has announced a new online video service as part of a $1 billion plan to update the company's products and infrastructure.  The new video portal is part of the company's paid service for financial professionals.   

Chris Soghoian at CNET News.com reports that the White House has dropped YouTube as its video platform for President Obama's addresses for custom player and system from Akamai.  Chris says that the move has come as a result of privacy concerns over cookies collected by YouTube.  Chris explains the situation here. 

Several small niche sites in health, sports and video gaming appear to be bucking the downturn trend and registering growth in traffic and revenue, reports Jessica Vascellaro and Elizabeth Holmes in today's Wall Street Journal.

Be an insider: Find out what is really happening with online video and where it's going. 

Google has scanned and indexed the entire archives of New York magazine.  Issues spanning 40 years have been organized as part of Google Book Search.

Google’s Marissa Mayer is profiled by Laura Holson in Sunday’s New York Times.  The senior exec, who is in charge of look, feel and usability of the world’s biggest search engine, tells the Times she is not leaving the company and says, “people don’t understand me.”

This difficult period for start-ups will produce many important companies, as happened in the last tech downturn, says Sita Vasan, a senior officer with Intel Capital, one of the the world's biggest corporate investors.  

Beet.TV has put together a fantastic group of industry leaders for our online video roundtable next week at the Adobe headquarters in San Francisco. We are thrilled that NewTeeVee's Liz Gannes will co-moderate.

Since it evolved into a news site in 2006, NYmag.com has been building a sizable national audience.  Fashion has been a big traffic driver and Fashion Week in New York and brought historic traffic to the site, according to a report in Mediabistro's WebNewser.

In what is probably the first time a presidential speech has been automatically transcribed by a software program, msnbc.com used a voice-to-text solution from Nexidia to transcribe last night's address to Congress by President Barack Obama. The online news site got the Obama transcription up in 15 minutes after the conclusion of  the speech, we […]

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Tuesday’s speech to Congress by President  Barack Obama made for a big news day at msnbc.com with some 54 million page views and 2.5 million video views, according Omniture SiteCatalyst numbers provided by msnbc.com.  (The numbers for viewing the speech are expected to […]

Watching a remarkable online video documentary by Dai Sugano, a gifted multimedia editor at the San Jose Mercury News, the slums of Mumbai are as bad as they appear in Slumdog Millionaire, the highly acclaimed film which is favored for winning Best Film award at the Oscars tonight.   

Kaltura is the New York-based company which has developed an open source video publishing platform which allows users to collaborate on video and other forms of rich media.  Much of the company's development team is in Israel. 

Wetpaint, the Seattle-based provider of social publishing platforms, is powering over 1 million sites from small grassroots organizations to big media brands including HBO, Discovery and others.

New York based Tremor Media, an online video advertising network and technology platform, has raised $18 million in additional venture funding, the company announced today. 

The U.S. college basketball championships, know as March Madness, has been one of the 10 biggest Internet events, according traffic tracked by Akamai.

Kelsey caught up with Anupam Gupta, CEO of Mixpo, at the AlwaysOn conference earlier this month.  The company has raised $4 million in venture funding, as Eric Eldon at VentureBeat reported on February 3.

We read with interest comments by Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf in ReadWriteWeb about the prospects for the "cloud" to be a distribution system for the Web. Lidja Davis reports that Cerf says that while cloud computing offers opportunities, it is fraught with privacy issues.

Seeking to expand global innovation and the utilization of Microsoft products and services, Microsoft has an ambitious program to support start-ups, not with capital, but with technical and consulting support. 

The new HD camcorders are inexpensive, easy to use and provide lots of storage, but they can be a big hassle to edit and convert files for the Web.