CNN.com's iReport, the news organization's site for the public to upload video and photos of news, has become a database and clearing house to connect survivors  of the earthquake. At least four families have determined that members have survived the disaster by using iReport, and thousands of images of missing Haitians are now uploaded. While Internet access in the devastated island [...]

Premium cable network Starz Media has a new iPhone application and online comic books as part of its promotion strategy for its upcoming original series "Spartacus." I sat down with Marc DeBevoise, Starz's senior VP of digital media, at the Consumer Electronics Show last week to talk about the content company's digital plans for 2010. Earlier this week, Starz introduced an [...]

Transpera, the fast-growing mobile video ad network solution has raised an additional $2 million in venture funding, according to mocoNews. We spoke Transpara CEO Frank Barbieri in October about his company and the opportunities for the sector.  We have republished this interview today.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

YouTube, which was expected to lose $500 million in 2009, probably lost only $200 million last year, helped by a successful advertising strategy, says Ken Auletta who reported these numbers in his best-selling book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It." Yesterday I sat down with Auletta in his offices at The New Yorker to chat about Google,YouTube, [...]

Watch CBS News Videos Online CBS News has acquired a surveillance tape showing the Haiti earthquake as it happened.   CBS says it was acquired by its Investigative Unit. CBS uploaded the video to its YouTube channel. Yesterday we reported on how Reuters got the first video out of the devastated country after the earthquake. Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the son of persecuted Russian Jews, has been the driving force in the the company's showdown with China, says Ken Auletta, New Yorker media columnist and author of the best selling book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It." I spoke with Auletta earlier today at the offices of The New Yorker.  He recalls [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- Reuters was first with this stunning video of the devastating earthquake in Haiti which has been seen on CNN, CBS News, YouTube, and many outlets around the globe. With electricity out throughout the capital, a resourceful stringer brought the video file on a laptop to a "friendly embassy" with an Internet connection and sent the historic footage [...]

Watching CNN this morning, we have seen most of the coverage of the disaster coming from a Reuters feed.  With the country's infrastructure devastated, having quality video image is of enormous value to broadcasters around the world. Here is one of the first television packages on the disaster from Reuters which is on CNN.com.  We have pasted the video on this [...]

LAS VEGAS, NV --- On the heels of its partnership with Nielsen late last year, Microsoft's XBox Live is now focused on deploying the joint measurement capabilities more broadly across the XBox Live service, the software giant's Dean Carignan told me during an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show on Friday. Carignan is the director of advertising for XBox Live and [...]

Ooyala, the video platform services company, announced today a plan to introduce its service to Japan with an alliance with NTT, Japan's largest telco.  Started by former Google engineers, the fast-growing start-up has raised $10 million in new venture funding in 2009. Ryan Lawler over at NewTeeVee has a good wrap-up on today's news.Late last year, we visited the Mountain [...]

Why rent an audience when you can buy your own? That's the new philosophy of marketers who are spending money this year to build out a social networking presence through "earned" media rather than paid media. Some advertisers, like Pepsi, are pouring marketing dollars into homegrown projects rather than flashy bets like the SuperBowl. But even so, online video ad dollars [...]

VideoEgg,  the San Francisco-based online video-advertising network, hit $24 million in revenue and reached profitability last year, CEO Matt Sanchez tells Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch. When it started, VideoEgg was a video sharing site for consumers, a precursor to YouTube.  Beet.TV used VideoEgg to publish our videos way back in 2006.Last year we spoke with Matt Sanchez about VideoEgg and its [...]

Google sends nearly four billion clicks per month to news providers, according to Josh Cohen, project manager at Google News. The company sees this process as a big benefit to publishers.  Whether or not Google unfairly links to content as has been suggested by some news executives, but Cohen says that new producers are "in total control of their content." [...]

LAS VEGAS, NV --  Yahoo has expanded the scope of its "Connected TV" with several new television and consumer electronics manufactures and expects the platform to be in as many as 5 million Internet-enabled television sets by the end of June, we have learned. At CES last week, our Daisy Whitney spoke with Yahoo's Russ Schafer about the expanding program. In addition [...]

LAS VEGAS  -- Earlier this week at CES, an industry consortium of Hollywood studios and technology companies called DECE announced a plan to make digital files of premium content portable between different digital devices. Irdeto, the big Netherlands-based, global provider of digital authentication software and services, is one of the participating companies.Last month in New York, I interviewed  Jan Steencamp who [...]

LAS VEGAS -- HP unveiled a new line of stylish 2.6 pound netbooks with a very attractive price point.  The basic unit starts at $299, and with Windows 7 installed they start at $329.  We got a preview of the new ultra small computers last month.  Here's a quick review by CNET's Dan Ackerman.As we reported earlier this week, the new HP [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Don't buy that new Mac yet. At CES , Intel unveiled its new Intel Core processors that will be in most major brands in Q1.   Intel won't say which brands will have the new chips, but it is safe to say it will be in most new Macs, which many of us use for video editing and project [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--Google's Chrome has reached 40 million active users since the Windows beta release in September 2008.  Beet.TV's Daisy Whitney visited Google headquarters to speak with Google spokesman Eitan Bencuya about developments with the new browser.  Eitan says Google recently launched beta versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux, which are tailored to the attributes of each platform instead [...]

Ryan Tate over at Gawker reports that AOL is in discussions to acquire the big social media/tech blog Mashable. We don't know what to make of this, but 24-year old Pete Cashmore has created quite a franchise with very little outside help. In Hollywood in June of 2008, I spoke with the young Scotsman about his site and its future. He told me [...]

LAS VEGAS--HP, the world biggest computer maker is making its HP SkyRoom video conferencing software and service available for free on its new line of business notebooks and workstations.  The announcement was made at CES. Last month, I spoke with HP's Jim Christensen about SkyRoom.  He says that the HP's patented technology keeps the images at a high quality with little [...]