Andy Plesser

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rachel Maddow's Wednesday night, news-making interview with Rand Paul–Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Kentucky–has gotten over 500,000 online video views in just twenty four hours, making it one of the most widely seen online news clips.

LONDON — The Guardian Newspaper, which is organizing massive amounts of government and other data into its API, is making the API available to the public on a commercial basis, the paper announced today.

Reporting a narrowing loss and a substantial gain in revenue, up 140 percent to $33.7 million, shares of Blinkx, the video search portal, rose 52 percent on the London Stock Exchange today (5/19), making it one of the market's biggest gainers for the day.

Kyte, the San Francisco-based online video services provider, announced today an Android application framework and SDK allowing publishers to easily create custom apps for the Android.

Blip.tv, the New York-based online video services site, has raised $10.1 million in new venture funding, the company announced this morning.

Yahoo has purchased the crowd-sourced content company Associated Content.  Kara Swisher puts the price tag for the company at $90 million cash.

In judging success of online video sites, the number of streams count, but time spent is also an extremely important metric.

Roku, the little black box that connects the Internet to television sets, has sold over 500,000 units, and its owners use it over two hours a sitting, Roku spokesman Brian Jaquet told Beet.TV in this video interview.

With the imminent launch of Flash Player 10.1, Adobe will provide publishers with tools to dramatically reduce bandwidth costs with a new peer-to-peer system, explains Kevin Towes, Product Manager of Adobe Flash Media Server, in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV.

TechCrunch is rolling into New York with a three-day conference called TechCrunch Disrupt.  The event, from May 24-26, will present the established and debut emerging players who are "disrupting" the media and technology landscape. 

As video platform companies and publishers scramble to make video run properly and to insert advertising into the Apple iPad, Kyte is integrated with several ad networks, as well its own ad sever, to manage ads onto the emerging format.

LOS ANGELES — The Scripps Network, producer of the hugely successful Food Network, will launch a completely new 24/7 cable food channel called the Cooking Channel on May 31.

Clicker, the new online video directory and guide, now indexes video references for 75,000 individuals and entities, meaning shows and series titles.

While the Adobe vs. Apple, Flash vs. HTML5 struggle rages on, engineers at Adobe are readying the debut of the Flash 10.1 player on Android-powered smart phones.  The player is also working on a Google Android tablet, according to some reports.

Boxee, the software platform that allows Internet users to watch IPTV on their computers and television sets, is readying a payment systems for programming.  

LOS ANGELES — At the Cable Show, lots of buzz about 3-D programming and the roll-out of TV Everywhere.  Daisy caught up with Discovery's Rebecca Glashow, SVP for Digital Media Distribution, to talk about both.

LOS ANGELES — Yesterday, the Cable Show got underway and the big buzz is interactivity–how cable programmers and operators can make shows more involving to viewers getting used to a Web experience.

Since the launch of the Apple iPad, many online video publishers have been been working feverishly to get video onto the the popular platform. 

Reuters Insider, a vast business and B2B video site from Thomson Reuters, is launching this week, and Beet.TV is a content partner for the new subscription service.

Over 25 years ago, a incensed Georgetown undergraduate “railed” on the phone about the sloppy coverage of her college to Assistant Managing Editor Larry Kramer, the paper’s metro editor.