Andy Plesser

Aspera, a small, privately-funded start-up in Emeryville, California, has developed the means to transfer enormous video files at speeds far greater that FTP and other TCP-type protocols. Quietly, it has become the industry standard for the movie and on video industry to manage and send around big files.   

SAN JOSE, Calif — The "pipes" of the Internet will be crucial to the success of an increasingly video-rich Internet and Cisco is putting in place a number of solutions, says Scott Puopolo, VP for Internet Business, in this interview with Beet.TV

AUSTIN – As the Web becomes increasingly Web-centric, more publishers are embracing the .tv domain as a way to denote video content, says Verisign's Tom Correia, who is product manager for the .tv domain.

While Google says it wants to index the world's content, it hasn't done made much progress in Hollywood. But an Israeli start-up called AnyClip has already indexed hundreds of movies in the Universal Pictures library.

Vevo, the popular music video site, which is a collaborative business involving several of the major record labels and Google, will launch in the U.K. shortly, announced CEO Rio Careaff in comments today to the Abu Dhabi Media Forum, the Guardian Newspaper reports.

London-based Livestation, a portal which streams linear news programming from broadcasters, including the BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, and a number of Arabic-language programs, including Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Arabiya, BBC Arabic, France 24 Arabic, has seen a huge spike in traffic to its site since unrest in the Middle East erupted in January.

The big Interactive agency Digitas has taken a leading role in creating innovative branded Web video programs for many clients including Kraft.

Introduced in late 2009 by Comcast as a means for subcribers to get a selection of their cable offerings on PC’s and mobile devices, there are new, significant opportunities emerging around the technology.

Topix has citizens uploading 4 millions of comments per month in forums in some 5,000 towns in the United States, generating 8 million monthly unique visitors and gettting $4 CPM’s, according to CEO Tolles in this interview with Beet.TV

For broadcasters seeking to provide a high quality live stream, untethered to an Internet connection and a PC, Livestream has just introduced a device from Teradek called the Cube.

Prague-based, KIT Digital has done the year’s biggest online video industry roll-up with its  $77 million purchase of New York-based KickApps, Kyte in San Francisco and Paris-based Kewego.

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned today in the wake of a fundraising scandal. 

On a freezing Manhattan night in February, virtually all of the media industry’s top reporters, blogger and editors showed up for drinks with a newly arrived California woman who was unknown just a few months earlier.

The New York offices of Next New Networks erupted in jubilation shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Monday when news was published of the the company’s acquisition by the YouTube.

NEW YORK – Next New Networks, the innovative studio and incubator for entertainment video programming for the Web, has been acquired by Google and will be part of YouTube. 

FreeWheel, the big video advertising technology solution provider used by 80 big publishers, is expanding its offering with a new service to allow publishers to manage pay-per-view and subscription services. 

Chris Anderson, "curator" of TED has announced the winners of the 10 best "Ads Worth Spreading". 

The introduction of tablets and smart phones has driven extraordinary growth in digital news consumption.  According to Robert Grimshaw, Managing Director of the the FT.com, approximately forty-five percent of digital news is now consumed via mobile devices.

Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Web video index platform Clicker, has been named president of CBS Interactive, the company announced today.

As the Huffington Post merges with AOL, the company will leave its successful brands to operate as independent entities.  Arianna Huffington, who will be editorial chief of the new company, tells Beet.TV in this video that she "won't mess" with successful AOL properties including TechCrunch and Engadget.