Pioneering P2P file sharing platform BitTorrent has 100 million active users, the company announced on Monday. In November at the NewTeeVee Live event in San Francisco, we spoke with Bram Cohen, inventor of BitTorrent, about developments at the company and the development around technology to share video. We have republished the interview today. Andy Plesser

Already this week, Vizio and Toshiba have introduced new tablet computers and more tablet releases should be unveiled at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Manufacturers such as Dell, LG and Microsoft are expected to enter the market with their iPad competitors. Many of the new tablets will run Google's Android as the operating system and Tawain’s Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center [...]

Foodspotting, the fast-growing, San Francisco-based social platform for sharing favorite food dishes has 100,000 iPhone registered users who have uploaded 250,000 dish reviews, with 10,000 uploaded every week. There are some 500,000 users of the App who consume the food pix.  (Only registered users can upload.) A few days ago, the company launched an App in Beta for Androids devices. We spoke with [...]

MONACO --  Qlipso, the Los Angeles based video sharing site, which allows users to interact around videos with friends in "private rooms" with videos and their own avatars, claims 14 million unique monthly viewers. The company says that visitors stay four times longer than conventional video sharing sites. Qlipso purchased the assets of the defunct video site Veoh in April. In November at [...]

Despite many well established sources for financial journalism, The New York Times will expand its newly revamped Dealbook property with more data features, video and reporter hires, says Jeffrey Cane, managing editor in this interview with Beet.TV. Cane likens Dealbook to Politico, a publication geared to the business of finance which is finding traction outside of it core audience, as Politico [...]

While more and more online video publishers are connecting with audiences in their living rooms with smart TV's, Blu-ray players and devices such as Roku and Google TV, advertising on these platforms is not yet in place. Flash-based ads don't work on televisions. As a result, the industry exploring a number of scenarios. YuMe Networks, the online video advertising technology solution provider [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The number of online video ads viewed in November was 5.4 billion, making ads 15 percent of all videos viewed, up 25 percent since June when they accounted for 12 percent according to data provided to Beet.TV from comScore. While many of those ads were streamed by big publishers including Microsoft, AOL and Google, many have been serviced [...]

NEW YORK -- The proliferation of smart wireless devices is creating a need for original content and MTV will be producing original entertainment for the emerging medium says Dermot McCormack, EVP for Digital at MTV Networks in this interview with Beet.TV McCormack didn't provide specifics but says that MTV will repurpose existing video and create new content in 2011. Heralded as new [...]

While most of the the major video sites and online video services providers are providing HTML5 support, primarily for Apple iOS devices, Blip.tv is going to adopt HTML5 as its standard player for the Web and other platforms, says Justin Day, co-founder and CTO in this interview with Beet.TV Day says that HTML5, which runs within the browser without a Flash [...]

MONACO, Côte d'Azur -- In their efforts to establish a presence on Facebook, eight-of-ten of the world's biggest brands, including Coca Cola, P&G, Unilever are now using an enterprise solution from New York-based Buddy Media, CEO Mike Lazerow said in this interview with Beet.TV The company does not serve ads into Facebook, it provides a content management system for marketers to [...]

The Huffington Post has registered 26 million unique monthly visitors in the United States, a record for the site, according the comScore November data for the "Newspaper Sites."  (See below.) The comScore numbers find the Huffington Post holding in the the number two "newspaper" position, after the New York Times.  It has passed the Tribune newspaper group, which is now ranked [...]

SAN FRANCISCO  - Metacafe, one of first and biggest online video destination, has been building various special interest areas including one for movie fans. The week, the company launched a destination site about video games.  The new site is headed by gaming industry veteran Doug Perry.  For an overview on the new channel and progress at Metacafe, we spoke with CEO Erick [...]

CBS News, long a major presence on television, has had a modest online presence, widely trailing industry online news giants MSNBC.com and CNN.com - as well the websites of ABC News, Fox News and the BBC. But this appears to be changing as CBSNews.com has registered over 19 million unique visitors in November, besting ABC News, Fox News and the BBC [...]

As brands and businesses continue to migrate their services to the growing number of Smartphone users, they will want to keep the user experience that is particular to mobile phones, said consumer research firm Opinion Lab. The company recently released a report on how to migrate your Web site to mobile phones and the firm advises businesses to establish benchmarks for [...]

NEW YORK -- Using an algorithm which parses one million records per day, the MTV Music Meter provides a ranking of the the most talked about and fast moving tunes.  For each artist in the ranking, the Meter provides music to purchase along with news, tweets and video.  The platform also provides a "Pandora-like" function which provides links to music suggestions [...]

While not a conventional news organization, Denver-based Examiner.com  may be the world's largest by the sheer size of its writing stable and the amount of content being produced. Examiner.com  has some 67,000 writers under contract in 230 U.S. cities who file around 100,000 stories per month, according to Rick Blair, CEO in this interview with Beet.TV.  He says the company is adding [...]

New York-based Big Think, which launched in early 2008 with seed capital from Lawrence  Summers*, President Obama's Director of the National Economic Council, and other investors including Peter Thiel, is serving some 5 million monthly video views and has reached profitability, says Victoria Brown, co-founder and CEO. The site features thousands of video of thought of leaders in academia, government, business [...]

SB Nation, a network of nearly 300 micro blogs about professional sports teams in the U.S. and Canada, has reached 100 million page views per month, making it the fastest growing, and one of the largest sports sites, says CEO Jim Bankoff in this interview with Beet.TV Last month the Washington, DC-based company closed a new series C venture round lead [...]

While the 30 second pre-roll remains the dominant form of online video advertising, the medium is inexorably becoming more interactive, says Steve Robinson, CEO of Panache, the Los Angeles-based software company which is creating new forms of video ad units for major publishers. Panache is providing the technology backend for the Publicis Groupe's  VivaKi global online video advertising initiative which is [...]

In November, Verizon FiOS announced a substantial increase in connection speed to 150 MBPS down and 35 MBPS up for all of its 12.5 million U.S. subscribers.  This is about 50X faster than the typical DSL connection. With the fiber network in place, the company is working on far faster speeds which will reach 10GBPS up and down per house in a [...]