Rhythmone PLC (fka BLNKF)

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Blinkx PLC changed to Rhythmone PLC:

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blinkx launches RhythmOne

Source: SMW

blinkx has unified its brand advertising trade entities under a single brand - RhythmOne (1R).

The brand unification augments the company's ability to deliver on the promise of cross-screen advertising at scale, across a consolidated, quality supply footprint.

RhythmOne covers a fully integrated range of formats - including desktop and mobile video, rich media, display, social and native advertising formats.

As a result of this integration, RhythmOne advertisers will be able to reach an expanded, high quality, target audience through a single access point.

With enhanced filtering and targeting capabilities, publisher partners will likely benefit from higher fill rates and pricing, as a result of integrated campaigns across devices. In addition, the integrated brand provides content providers an expanded distribution and monetization platform, given 1R's larger, aggregate supply base. This integration achieves an alignment of objectives among the core constituents within the 1R ecosystem, with tangible, enhanced benefit to each group.

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Well I have done a lot of thinking lately about blinkx and weather or not its a buy sell or hold.
First off I hate to see norman go as a shareholder and I hope he does well in everything he does! I hope he will someday soon return to shares of blinkx.

Here is some points to make everyone think and then they can decide for themselves taking the good and some bad and mixing them all up.
I have been a blinkx shareholder for years and did not even sell in the 3.60 usa range.

1. pizza man was paid by us investors to write a negative article on blinkx not only that but he reuses to tell you who they were and how much he was paid read between the line they were shorting the stock! I was invested in blinkx when it bot zango's assets zango went bankrupt and the bank sold 40 million dollars worth of assets to blinkx for about 3 million dollars talk about a great buy! what he wrote was when zango had it before and twisted it around.
2. I do not believe that one word of what he accused blinkx of was true at all "HE WAS MAKING SURE HIS PAID INVESTORS GOT WHAT THEY WANTED TO SHORT BLINKX STOCK!"
3. Also he had to go back and revise his own words but the damage had been already done the stock is down 72% from a year back.
4. Blinkx no doubt lost customers bc of his false article and blinkx had to invest into proving their advertisments were legit which should help blinkx in the long run its like tracking your package for the paid advertiser.
5.Just like a river flows its not all a straight path it takes some curves and changes so must companies adapt to market changes!
6.Blinkx now must adapt toward mobile as that is where all the growth and future market share will be for instance it went from just 5% of revenue in mobile ads to 20% in just 6 mths. so I am very excited to see where that % number is now may 18!
7.Blinkx was spun out of autonomy a legit company who also grew by aqusitions and was trading around $5 usa for quite a while only to be bot out by hpq for around 26$ usa.
8. A lot of compnies aquired by blinkx has huge growth potenital and most of them will pay for them selves in just 1 year alone and I for one can wait until they bear fruit and this is just a hidden gem its way over sold and in my Vision long term holder will be richly rewarded!
9.Blinkx still has 90 million in cash and no debt and revenues of 210 million I look for blinkx to come up with something in the social media industry and perhaps a payment system like paypal to further its growth and expand into key areas which would excite any investor in blinkx shares especially at these prices!
10. Adkarma was one of the top 500 fastest growing private companies before blinkx bot them they also got grab media which yahoo wanted with lyfe and rhythm for mobile hd ad's I can totally wait a year or 2 more for these companies to grow within and create wealth weather we get bot out or not I see investors making a ton!]
Best to all onwards and upwards keep in touch norm!

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Companies blinkx bought

Rhythm connects brand advertisers with highly engaged mobile audiences by selling and serving video, rich media and other immersive advertising formats. Rhythm has partnered with more than 50 premium media companies, typically on an exclusive basis, across an unparalleled portfolio of 200+ properties to deliver meaningful brand advertising within the highest quality content for targeted, relevant audiences. Our premium media partners include NBC Universal, CBS, ABC, Fox, Warner Bros., IAC, Demand Media and many others. In 2012 alone, more than 200 top brand advertisers including P&G, Unilever, Disney, McDonald’s, General Motors, Ford, AT&T, Verizon, Macy's, Marriott and Wrigley ran campaigns with Rhythm and achieved unprecedented engagement results. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and QuestMark Partners.


Founded in October 1995, Burst is a full service provider of digital advertising solutions for Independent Web publishers and brand advertisers.

We’ve grown up in the digital space and clearly see how it fosters vibrant and diverse communities that are redefining the way brands must communicate, interact and engage with consumers. For Burst nowhere is the power of communities more current than in the Independent Web – and the Independent Web is what Burst believes in. Where we succeed is bringing the Independent Web to brands that want to reach loyal, highly segmented audiences – no one does it better and at greater scale than Burst. Burst is the Independent Web – and through our direct publisher relationships and our cutting-edge creative solutions we bring success to publishers, advertisers and audiences alike.

In addition to our digital media offerings, we also market AdConductor, an ad management solution, to ad-supported businesses such as ad networks, technology providers, portals and individual web sites.

Grab Media is a leading premium video distribution company. It connects premium video content from a wide collection of professional sources and brand-name advertisers to ideal viewers. Marketers rely on Grab Media to position their message in front of large-scale, engaged audiences, so they can focus on brand promotion. Grab Networks Holdings, Inc., formerly Anystream Inc., was founded in 2008. In 2013 the Grab Media property was acquired by blinkx (LSE AIM: BLNX), the Internet Media platform powered by CORE video technology, headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices worldwide.(Also Yahoo wanted to buy grab media too)


Based in Santa Monica, Calif., Lyfe Mobile offers audience-targeting features using GPS data combined with other data points such as weather, traffic and population density, as well as campaign-management tools to help brands deliver targeted ads. The company offers various mobile ad formats, including display, video and native ads.

As part of the transaction, Blinkx is hiring all 11 members of Lyfe Mobile, including engineers, data scientists and business staff. Acquiring Lyfe Mobile represents Blinkx’s “first foray” into the demand side of programmatic advertising, said Blinkx CEO Subhransu Brian Mukherjee.

He described Lyfe Mobile’s platform as one that connects with supply-side partners, comparing it with mobile DSP StrikeAd and the mobile capabilities of Turn.

“Historically Blinkx has been focused on the supply side of the ecosystem,” Mukherjee said. “This acquisition represents our first step in bridging the gap between the supply side and the demand side, particularly in mobile.”

Mukherjee acknowledged that Blinkx is taking Lyfe Mobile on at a loss because the startup was not profitable at the time of the acquisition, but said it has a “ready-made team that understands mobile and will complement the ad network that we bought in Rhythm (New Media).”

Blinkx is a 10-year-old public company with headquarters in San Francisco and London. In addition to operating a video search engine and discovery platform, it also owns ad network Burst Media (acquired in 2011) and mobile-focused video ad platform Rhythm New Media (bought in 2013).


blinkx is the Internet Media platform powered by CORE, the world’s most advanced video engine. We link viewers with content publishers and distributors, and monetize those interactions through advertising. Founded in 2004, blinkx floated on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) in May, 2007 and has a compound annual growth rate of over 100% since IPO.

Through its flagship site, blinkx.com, blinkx pioneered video search on the Internet, developing an engine based on technology that was conceived at Cambridge University, enhanced by $150M in R&D over 15 years, and is now protected by 111 patents. Today, blinkx is a broad digital media technology, distribution and monetization platform that connects consumers, advertisers and content across four screens. Through its partnerships with hundreds of media companies, including NBC, Conde Nast, Reuters and Bloomberg, blinkx has indexed and search enabled millions of hours of video content. blinkx powers video search, discovery or monetization on thousands of online properties including Lycos, Discovery Networks, Hallmark and Fox Sports. blinkx continues to pioneer innovative approaches to digital video distribution, expanding into mobile video and Connected TV through partnerships with Samsung, Sony, Roku and other industry leaders.

PVMG's platform, which gets about 1.5 billion queries and generates about 14 ad interactions each day, will support the ability for blinkx to deliver videos in search results. The company serves a network of more than 600 advertisers and 350 publishers.

Universal search results on engines like google.com require technology that can sort through billions of videos online. ComScore estimates that 182 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 40 billion video views in September, for an average of 19.5 hours per viewer.

Blinkx Founder Suranga Chandratillake said developing technology similar to PVMG would have required financial resources and time. In fact, lots of it -- between two and five years.

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Blinkx

To say that tech play Blinkx (LSE:BLNX) suffered an annus horribilis in 2014 would be something of an understatement. The business faced claims from Harvard professor Ben Edelman that its software -- which allows users to find online videos more easily -- artificially bloated hit counts, while concerns over slowing revenues during the summer cast further doubts over the company's business model.

Still, Blinkx's strategic switch from the fading Desktop format to Mobile appears to have reached an inflection point, and the company noted in December's update that revenues and earnings have continued to grow from the summer's lulls. The high-growth Mobile segment now accounts for a fifth of total revenues from around 1% a year ago.

The upheaval of this refocussing is expected to drive earnings sharply lower in the near term, and a 95% decline is currently pencilled in for the 12 months to March 2015. But the firm's bottom line is anticipated to swell thereafter as revenues start to flow in, and growth to the tune of 308% and 38% is predicted for fiscal 2016 and 2017 correspondingly.

At face value, however, Blinkx could still be considered an expensive stock selection -- the business carries P/E multiples of 40.8 times for 2016, although this falls to a much-improved 21 times for the following year. Still, I believe that PEG readouts of 0.1 and 0.6 for these years underline the company's exceptional price relative to its growth prospects. Any figure below 1 is widely regarded a bargain.

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Is Now The Perfect Time To Buy Blinkx Plc? [The Motley Fool]
By Peter Stephens - Tuesday, 18 November, 2014

2014 has been disastrous for investors in Blinkx (LSE: BLNX). Shares in the video search and advertising company have fallen by an incredible 87% since the turn of the year and, with the company announcing a loss in its recent results, there has been little sign of any improvement in the prospects for the business, or in its share price performance.

However, Blinkx’s share price has been up by as much as 8% this week, which is the most impressive gain in recent memory. Does this mean that the share price collapse is finally coming to an end? And, perhaps more importantly, is now the perfect time to add a slice of Blinkx to your portfolio?

Disappointing Results

As mentioned, Blinkx now expects to make a loss for the full year after releasing a very disappointing set of interim results. Indeed, it’s of little surprise that the company’s share price has been hit so hard, as Blinkx is undergoing a transitional period where it is shifting its focus away from desktop (which until the current financial year had dominated its revenue stream) and towards mobile (which now accounts for 20% of the company’s top line).

Of course, any transitional period brings doubt and in Blinkx’s case this centres on whether it can become highly profitable through focusing on mobile rather than desktop. Working in its favour, though, is a considerable cash pile that should at least provide it with the time it needs to shift focus to mobile over the coming months.

Looking Ahead

As with any transitional period, there will inevitably be a number of lumps and bumps. In Blinkx’s case, this could mean a more challenging second half of the current year than the company is anticipating and, as a result, it would be of little surprise for current guidance to be reduced. Indeed, even though Blinkx is expecting to return to profitability next year, this should not be taken as a given, since the transition that is taking place is very significant and is being undertaken over a very short space of time.

As a result, investors may wish to wait for further news from the company, in terms of how its transitional period is progressing, before buying a slice of Blinkx. So, while it is encouraging to see shares in Blinkx making strong gains in recent days, it is likely that there could be more bad news to come. As such, Blinkx could be a share to watch, rather than a share to buy, at the present time.

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Source: http://www.fool.co.uk/investing/2014/11/18/is-now-the-perfect-time-to-buy-blinkx-plc

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10947330/BlackRock-restricts-share-lending-after-short-selling-attack-on-Blinkx.html

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blinkx delivers more video ads than anyone!

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/number-online-video-ads-205-last-year-154520

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Wall street article on blinkx acquires another company today.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20131203-706562.html#!

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no ,in wntr should i buy blinkx? was looking at it

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hey you still in blinkx?

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new article on blinkx
http://www.videoadnews.com/2013/10/28/blinkxs-programmatic-sales-now-outweigh-direct/

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blinkx to report earnings Tuesday nov. 5 2013

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Blinkx closed just off its record high, up 6.8 per cent to 156p, after Jefferies said the Autonomy spin-off was likely to become a takeover target for one of the US internet leaders. While Blinkx’s reinvention in 2011 as a video advertising platform limits visibility, the group’s strong revenue growth and cash conversion justified a price target of 190p, it said.

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the Internet Media platform powered by CORE video technology, today announced a beta version of its new blinkx VideoAdvantage. Publishers who leverage blinkx VideoAdvantage will be enabled to power their Web and mobile properties with content from blinkx's premium video catalogue, with the opportunity to share in video advertising revenue with blinkx.

blinkx VideoAdvantage will provide publishers a solution to easily embed video on their sites with virtually no implementation cost. A self-serve portal allows publishers to choose from a rich catalog of premium video content, track everything from video views to revenue, and customize their video playback experience. These configurable video widgets allow publishers to maintain their current look and feel, as well as personalize the video experience for their viewers. Leveraging its proprietary AdHoc platform, blinkx will place contextually relevant advertising against these videos and share resulting revenue with the publisher.

"Today, US consumers watch nearly 41 billion videos a month online, and over 74 million viewers are accessing video through mobile devices. blinkx VideoAdvantage will allow publishers to capitalize on this growing trend, satisfy their consumers through the addition of an in-demand medium and add a meaningful, incremental revenue stream to their site experience," said S. Brian Mukherjee, CEO of blinkx. "This exciting and flexible product is directly in line with our goal to video enable the text Web and to provide video whenever and wherever a consumer wants to watch it."

The blinkx VideoAdvantage publisher portal will encompass:

Content - Premium videos from over 900 content providers are available in pre-built or completely curated channels.
Configuration - Multiple video units for the Web and mobile are made easily available, with customization for size, style, number of channels and more.
Reporting - Dashboard access allows for tracking of traffic, video views and publisher revenue earnings.

The beta version of blinkx VideoAdvantage is currently available to select publishers. Those interested are asked to send an inquiry to [e-mail].

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find highly targeted, relevant rich media on the Web. The company has signed more than 900 partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio content to date.

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from shareholders meeting 7-11-13
Here it is, the handy work of Fuzz and Digitalis:

Today's AGM went well and at "top table" were M Opzoomer (chair), Brian, Suranga and Ed Reginelli (FD)

After the formal part of the meeting had been concluded and all resolutions passed by a poll of those shareholders present, Brian gave his overview of last year's performance. He began with an overview of Blnx's market. Currently Blnx have 40+ agencies, 900+ content partners, 1000 brands and 3000 publishers. The company operates in the US and UK and has 235 employees split into 157 sales and marketing, 62 R&D and 36 admin. Despite rocketing revenue and cash generation the company reduced headcount by 20. There is, therefore, a good grip on costs

At present 95% of video ad dollars is still spent on TV. However, online video is 51% of consumer internet traffic and this is expected to grow to 55%. By 2016 1.2 million minutes of video - or 833 days - will traverse the internet every second. 45% of the world's population is expected to be internet connected by 2016. Currently $3bn of online video ad spend against $65bn TV ad spend. This rapidly growing market is ripe for disruption.

The internet market has not yet got mobile video advertising right as the tendency is still to try to cram PC type video ads onto mobile screens. There is still therefore a way to go before this product comes right.

Blnx has tripled its sales force and publishers as a result of the acquisitions and now run with major web publishers (AOL), Aggregators (Rubicon), Agencies (WPP) and Advertisers ( P&G, Nestle, Disney). Brian stressed that these are all non-exclusive relationships therefore no guarantees have been given. All relationships are revenue sharing. With the newer automated platforms the dollar spend may be reduced but the volumes are much expanded. Brian emphasised numerous times the critical importance of the fact that Blnx only runs with professional content. $60m has been spent customising CORE and several patents have been applied for.
Overall Brian was upbeat, excited and referred several times to BLNX being in the crosshairs of this video revolution.

The FD then talked us through various stats and figures. 568 billion ad opportunities were presented last year of which BLNX achieved a 13% conversion. The previous year the numbers were 460 billion with a 9% conversion. 78% of revenue came via Premium content. Pricing trends are trending upwards on Premium content. R&D spend is increasing due to work being undertaken on both mobile and big data. There is a team working on mobile which is the fastest growing segment but of course BLNX have no control over the content\suitability of the advertising for mobile (see above). Blnx see their main competitors for premium content as being Netcom, Hulu, ITV,VEVO, CBS and 4.

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looks like a buy to me .

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message by sobeit:
More important than the figures you mention are the following statistics:

Headcount down from 275 to 255. This is possible because of the level of technology Blinkx uses where "computers" do the work that others such as Youtube/Google etc use people who cost a lot of money. Remember, Blinkx "computers" are intelligently viewing the contents of the videos rather than tags so it can realise when, for example, a porn video is being viewed.

It is possible the headcount could fall even lower adding more to the bottom line as the technology becomes even more sophisticated and streamlined.

Given the news today that ISPs and web browsers are being targetted to stop such videos being available, there is a huge market for Blinkx identifying and stopping such videos.

Next, in the last year, Blinkx' Publishing Partners has gone up from 2,919 to 4,540 and Advertising Partners from 970 to 1,081. At the same time, content partners, those who use Blinkx' AdHoc to show videos with advertisements and share revenues has gone up from 804 to 906.

What this means is that we are still on an upward trend and, hopefully, at the AGM in July we will learn that this year the upward trend has continued and we might be looking at about $300m or more net profit for the whole year now that the acquisitions and exceptional costs have all been absorbed.

If that is the case, we will see a very strong re-rating of the shares, even pushing them up as high as £2 if not even higher.

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news
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the Internet Media platform powered by CORE, the world's most advanced video engine, today announced a partnership with Ustream, the leading technology platform for live social video streaming. Through the partnership, Ustream events will now be available live on blinkx.com. To kick off both the partnership and 2013 summer concert season, the 2013 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, will be streamed live to blinkx.com. Dates for the event are June 13th to 16th . Ustream will place advertising against the stream and participate in a revenue share with blinkx.

Whether crazy for classic rockers, like Paul McCartney and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, or the current rulers of radio, such as Mumford & Sons and Of Monsters and Men, music lovers will have a chance to catch the hottest acts without braving the heat, by crashing the entire festival on blinkx.com. Moreover, virtual concert-goers won't have to worry about trekking from stage to stage just to catch a glimpse of the dozens of amazing acts at this year's festival. Instead, they'll be able to trade crowd-surfing for channel-surfing – Grammy-winning producer Hank Neuberger will orchestrate a multi-camera shoot throughout the course of the festival, allowing blinkx viewers to flip between stages and unique backstage content in one video player.

"We're very pleased to partner with Ustream to broadcast live events, and thrilled to launch this opportunity by bringing a legendary festival like Bonnaroo to blinkx.com," said S. Brian Mukherjee, CEO of blinkx. "Ustream's live Bonnaroo coverage will allow music-loving blinkx users around the world to enjoy the same fantastic lineup on their laptops as enjoyed by fans camped out on location in Tennessee."

"This is the first time viewers everywhere will have access to the lineup of Bonnaroo performances through Ustream's interactive, socially integrated platform – so we want to ensure as many music fans as possible get the chance to check out their favorite bands," said Brad Hunstable, CEO of Ustream. "blinkx, with its wide audience of video-savvy users who have come to expect high-quality, professionally produced content, offers a perfect fit to engage even more digital festival attendees."

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find highly targeted, relevant rich media on the Web. The company has signed more than 800 partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio content to date.

About blinkx

blinkx (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the Internet Media platform powered by CORE, the world's most advanced video engine. blinkx links viewers with content distributors and monetizes those interactions through advertising. Through its flagship site, blinkx.com, the company pioneered video search on the Internet and today has an index of over 35 million hours of searchable video and more than 800 media partnerships. In addition, blinkx powers video search for many of the world's most frequented sites, including Ask.com and AOL. blinkx continues to develop innovative approaches to digital video distribution, and has expanded into mobile video and Connected TV through partnerships with Samsung, Sony, Roku and other industry leaders. blinkx is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and London, England. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.

About Ustream

Ustream is the leading technology platform for live social video streaming, powered by the company's proprietary Ustream Cloud Platform. The company was founded in 2007 with a vision to bring live broadcasting technology to the entire world; Ustream was originally created to connect military service members to family and friends across the world. Since then, the company has established itself as a socially-fueled communications platform for businesses, non-profit organizations, and individuals of any size to easily reach an infinite audience and share experiences in real-time.

The core of the Ustream Cloud Platform centers around the company's proprietary Ustream Content Delivery Network (UCDN), Ustream Media Server (UMS) and Ustream TCP Congestion Control Algorithm (UTCP). Together, this advanced technology stack provides users with unmatched redundancy, resiliency, and reliability to broadcast quality live video streams. Founded in 2007, Ustream is a San Francisco-based company that has grown to more than 250 employees within their San Francisco, Los Angeles, Budapest, Tokyo, and Seoul offices. Company partners include Dell, Sony, Georgetown University, Panasonic, Samsung, CBSi, and Viacom.

Ustream is a privately-owned company. For more information on Ustream, visit Ustream.tv, Twitter.com/Ustream, or Facebook.com.

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The Future of Online Video: It's About More Than Video

06 Jun 2013

By Suranga Chandratillake, Founder and President, blinkx

In popular use, the word "TV" is a convenient catch-all used to describe the medium of television, the physical box one receives it on and the content itself. If you think about it, this stopped making sense many years ago: the three are actually completely different things. Today I can watch TV--the Content--on my computer, I sometimes enjoy TV--the Televisual Medium--in the form of a film on a big screen at the cinema and the main things I watch on my TV--the Physical Box--are video games.

The spectacular adoption of Online Video has further muddied the meaning of TV. In the online environment, offline-TV companies and networks cling to terms like "made for TV" or "Television produced" or, perhaps most questionably, "Professional", in order to position their content as better or more valuable than the (presumably sub-par) stuff made by others. Meanwhile a crop of newer companies have built a name for themselves as the 'x' of Online Video. Ooyala and Brightcove are the Online Video platform providers, Brightroll and others the Online Video Ad Networks and blinkx.com, of course, the Online Video Search Engine. But all of this Video-centric positioning is as meaningless as the so-called 'TV companies' of the offline world. You may want the world to think you're different, you may even believe you are different, but you are only truly different if you are different to your most important constituent - your audience.

Steve Jobs famously said "You have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology - not the other way round." Try doing this with Online Video. Do you sit down in front of your computer (or phone or tablet) and think to yourself, "I'm going to do some Online Video now"? Or do you sit down and think "I need to know about X" or "I have half an hour to kill, what should I watch?" I would bet it's the latter. Sometimes you watch it because it's the best way to understand something (how to tie a bowtie), sometimes because it's the only option (the FT runs some amazing Leadership interviews that do not appear in print) and sometimes just because it fits your current mood (I could read The Economist, but I'd really rather sit back in front of an episode of Chopped.)

Furthermore, I'm willing to bet you freely mix Online Video with other, non-Online Video content. Sometimes I watch a video I find particularly interesting, so I tweet it or stick it on Facebook to see what others think. Sometimes a TV show we're watching at home gives rise to a debate that is answered by watching a video on YouTube. Sometimes I'll watch news headlines on the bus on my phone (I can't read in moving vehicles) and then open new browser tabs on certain stories to read in depth when I get to my desk.

Interestingly, if, as Jobs suggested, you work back from this consumer experience to the technology, it turns out that there are no technical constrictions affecting this freewheeling use of video in the context of the Internet. From a technology perspective, the Internet simply transports data from one place to another. The nature of the data is abstracted from the underlying technology and your computer doesn't care whether the link you just posted is to video, an image or a piece of text.

What does this mean to those of us in the Video (or TV) world? It means we must think differently and stop limiting ourselves with artificial, outdated terminology. Yes, there was a meaningful business to be had being a Video Advertising Network or a TV production company, respectively two and twenty years ago but, in the next twenty years your customers won't see it the same way. Video Ad Network? Why bother? If I promote my brand, I want to buy ALL media that reaches the people who need to know about my brand. Video Production Company? Nope. If I'm a commissioner, I don't just want the show - I want the second screen app my viewers are going to use alongside the show, I want the web AND the social presence that'll sustain my audience community in between seasons. At blinkx, we realised this a few years ago and began translating our lead in video to build a product that we knew our customers would want over time. This is why you don't have to come to blinkx.com to experience our technology: you can use it at your regular default search engine where you search for video alongside text, images, news and everything else. It's why we embed relevant content directly into text pages so you come across it while you read at the right time, in the natural place. It's why although we lead with video, we can sell you other ad units around the video to complement the entire campaign you're trying to run. None of this means we don't focus on video, it just means we obsess over understanding its place in the ever-changing context of media consumption.

While there's a need for corporate bravery in navigating this kind of industry transition, it is worth keeping an eye on the prize. In the future, as a brand you will be able to engage and interact with your customers across an infinite range of connection points; It'll be like you know them, and can talk to them, can listen to their concerns and modify your products and offerings to suit dynamically. From a consumer perspective, it means you'll be able to access whatever you want, whenever you want and in whichever form makes the most sense. I think that's a New World worth being Brave for.

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another great message from sobeit

Actually Videology and Blinkx are complementary and do not compete directly in the same space. They would actually work very well together for a company using the Blinkx API to also feed into Viseology.

Simple view of Blinkx.

You want to set up a website showing videos, either your own or videos that you find on the internet. You can either develop it from scratch or you can build the website with all your personal gubbins which is specific to you and then you add into the code a Blinkx API which allows you ask Blinkx to get you certain videos from the internet or to manage your own videos which Blinkx displays for you and you put advertisements against those videos to generate revenue.

The advertisements you put against the videos can either be your own or can be drawn from Blinkx' Burst or PVMG or from any other agency. All you agree to do, is to share the advertising revenue with Blinkx for the use of the API.

If you want Videology to manage the advertisements and to work out the profile of who to put the videos to, you can, or you can allow the Blinkx profiling to do it for you but you still share the revenue.

All the time, this appears seamlessly as your website. The fact that Blinkx is under the lids is totally transparent.

The big move recently by Blinkx is into the mobile market. They have their own app for showing videos and advertisements but they have just announced that they are in bed with Intel and Samsung with Tizen, a competitive operating system to Android, Windows 8, etc.

The difference between Android and Tizen is that Android is a version of Linux that has been hijacked by Google. Tizen will be an unencumbered version of Linux with the blessing of the Linux Foundation and will therefore be far more acceptable to the mobile community because it will not have a Google badge on it.

On Tizen, there will be a Blinkx app but there will also be a Blinkx Tizen API to allow other Tizen developers or app developers to develop their own video sites exactly along the way they have done above using Blinkx but for non-mobile devices.

That is a big deal.

Remember, Google became Google for one reason only. It was not the best internet search provider when it started but its great trick was to give internet developers an API which allowed those developers to put a search bar on their websites without having to write a search engine of their own.

That facility, which you see in so many websites, still makes money for Google but it is "text search". What Blinkx has done is made the same facility available to all sites who want video search. The only deal is that the website shares its advertising revenue with Blinkx when a relevant advertisement is shown alongside the video that Blinkx has found and brought back.

That is why there is no conflict with Videology; they are complementary.

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message from sobeit on another board..

Irrespective of the price, you can see since the announcement on the 11th that the activity in Blinkx shares has increased substantially. That means it is of interest to the big investors rather than "smalls" like the majority of us.

That interest is obviously based on the basis that Blinkx is now a highly profitable company relative to its turnover and it is piling money up in the bank which means it is an AIM no-brainer.

Not only that, but the announcement yesterday of the deal with Tizen is far more relevant than people might think. This is what was stated: "Blinkx, the Internet Media platform powered by CORE, the world's most advanced video engine, today announced a dedicated blinkx app, as well as an open source blinkx Video Player for the Tizen community".

So, two things, an "app" and an open source video player i.e. a video API for Tizen.

The app will probably be very much along the lines of Blinkx Beat which is already available on Android devices, so as a revenue stream, that is probably already ported and will be generating advertising revenue on Tizen within a short space of time.

The second, the source blinkx Video Player" which gives Tizen developers access to Video through an API which allows speedy and secure development. Note the statement from the Tizen group member who is also a big cheese in Intel that

"The blinkx Video Player is an outstanding addition to the Tizen ecosystem and community," said Christopher Croteau, Tizen Association Board member and Managing Director of Intel's System Software Division. "Developers will be able to access the open source HTML5 code and manufacturers utilizing Tizen will be able to more easily include video in mobile devices."

By implication, that statement would indicate that Blinkx is the de facto video interface and standard for Tizen. Given the backing of Tizen by Intel and Samsung and being far closer to the Linux model than Android (even though it too is a Linux derivative) which to a certain extent is proprietory means that it is far more of a standard for both products.

And given that Tizen is being promoted as the de facto Linux operating system for all those mobile devices including connected TVs this is one very big deal for Blinkx.

The battle for operating systems for mobiles is really hotting up. The following is worth a read: http://www.mobilemag.com/2013/02/27/tizen-firefox-os-ubuntu-competing/

Intresting to note the comment that Firefox OS is "like a cross between Web OS and Chrome OS" when you consider that WebOS was the product that HP owned and sold lock, stock and barrel, to LG earlier this year which proves that HP does not know what its left or right arms are doing. Surely, it would have made more sense to just pass it over to Blinkx given their shareholding?

There will be plenty of Tizen products starting to flow later this year as Samsung gears up and it will be interesting to see how deeply Blinkx is integrated into the OS.

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the Internet Media platform powered by CORE, the world's most advanced video engine, today announced a dedicated blinkx app, as well as an open source blinkx Video Player for the Tizen community. Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform for mobile devices.

The blinkx app, available through the Tizen store, will replicate the look and feel of the recently re-launched blinkx.com, tapping into over 35 million hours of online video and over 800 media partnerships to give mobile viewers access to an incredible array of high-quality videos. Whether searching for a specific clip or browsing categories such as News & Politics, Celebrity and Viral, users on the go will have the same immersive video experience they enjoy on blinkx.com.

"The blinkx Video Player is an outstanding addition to the Tizen ecosystem and community," said Christopher Croteau, Tizen Association Board member and Managing Director of Intel's System Software Division. "Developers will be able to access the open source HTML5 code and manufacturers utilizing Tizen will be able to more easily include video in mobile devices."

"We're delighted to join Tizen in making this innovative operating system even more video-friendly for both app developers and users," said S. Brian Mukherjee, CEO of blinkx. "By open sourcing our video player for Tizen developers, we look forward to expanding further into the mobile video space."

For mobile app creators in the Tizen community, blinkx has developed an open source HTML5 video player to help developers incorporate a fully-functional video player into their applications. The lightweight and easy-to-use code allows developers to build a single- or multi-video player experience with their own videos in multiple formats. As a result, creators of new and existing Tizen apps will be able to easily incorporate a video player with customizable playlists and configurable settings.

More information on the blinkx Video Player for Tizen can be found at www.blinkx.com/tizen.

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find rich media on the Web. The company has signed more than 800 partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio content to date.

* Tizen is a trademark of the Linux Foundation.

About blinkx
blinkx (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the Internet Media platform powered by CORE, the world's most advanced video engine. blinkx links viewers with content distributors and monetizes those interactions through advertising. Through its flagship site, blinkx.com, the company pioneered video search on the Internet and today has an index of over 35 million hours of searchable video and more than 800 media partnerships. In addition, blinkx powers video search for many of the world's most frequented sites, including Ask.com and AOL. blinkx continues to develop innovative approaches to digital video distribution, and has expanded into mobile video and Connected TV through partnerships with Samsung, Sony, Roku and other industry leaders. blinkx is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and London, England. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.

About Tizen
Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs. Tizen offers an innovative operating system, applications, and a user experience that consumers can take from device to device.

Tizen provides a robust and flexible environment for application developers, based on HTML5. With HTML5's robust capabilities and cross platform flexibility, it is rapidly becoming the preferred development environment for mobile apps and services. The Tizen SDK and API allow developers to use HTML5 and related web technologies to write applications that run across multiple device segments.

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new video for blinkx what is blinkx its a great ad!
http://www.blinkx.com/ce/DaQWCixKDxXnIFXsC-tZ892ARGFRV0NpeEtEeFhuSUZYc0MtdFo4OTJBRGFRV0NpeEtEeFhuSUZ

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Revenue Up 73% at Blinkx (from motley fool)

By Jon Wallis | More Articles | Save For Later
May 13, 2013 | Comments (0)

LONDON -- Blinkx (LSE: BLNX ) -- the search engine specialist that enables the annoying, but highly lucrative, targeted video advertising you see online -- is currently up over 3%, following the release of its full-year results to the end of March 2013. Adjusted pre-tax profit was up 129%, to almost $25 million, on revenue that had increased 73%, to $198 million. Basic earnings per share grew 336%, to $0.048.

The company's success is due to growth in the online video advertising sector, which it attributes to factors such as widespread broadband adoption, the proliferation of connected devices such as smartphones and tablets, and the rapid migration and consumption of online video content.

Commenting on the results, S. Brian Mukherjee, CEO of Blinkx, said:

This has been an exciting year for blinkx and we are delighted to report a record performance. The business demonstrated strong underlying growth, stability and efficiency, which was accelerated by the ahead-of-schedule integration of the acquisitions that we made last year. The scale, scope and reach of these acquisitions enabled us to serve a greater number of advertisements to a wider audience at robust monetization rates, which helped drive our growth.

We believe the market momentum underscores the vitality of the sector and of our business model. The opportunity for blinkx lies in maximizing yield through product innovation, expansion of its distribution channels and the capture of new and emerging revenue streams. Based on our capabilities and the fundamentals of the industry, we remain confident in our prospects and opportunities.

The performance of Blinkx's share price has certainly been impressive over the past year -- it's up 140% (albeit that it's still over 30% off its high of October 2011). But if Blinkx really has got its business model right, this could well be only the start.

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That usually means goldman is selling, j/k. great to see the revenue jump.

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Blinkx earnings link
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/blinkx-plc-announces-results-ended-060000622.html

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goldman rates buy price target $2!

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P/E ratios are the last thing you should look at when valuing a growth stock like Blinkx. There is a reason a Ferrari costs more than a Ford. If you want high-performance you are going to have to pay a premium price. However, in my view on a forward P/E of 21 (source: Canaccord Genuity) Blinkx is far from expensive and trades at a very significant discount to US peers... DYOR.

In June 1997 Yahoo! traded on 938x earnings, enough to give most investors a nose bleed. Its shares then advanced 7,800% over the next 30 months because its sales exploded. So do not listen to novice investors or idi0ts (e.g. shareprophets.com) that do not know what they are talking about.
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Article
Online video boom leads search engine blinkx to soaring sales

25 Apr 2013

By James Titcomb

The ever-growing demand for online videos has propelled blinkx, the video search engine, to a stunning rise in sales.

The company blew away expectations yesterday by revealing that revenues in the 12 months to April are expected to be 71 per cent higher than the previous year. The announcement sent shares up 12.5 per cent as sales of $196m (£128.5m) beat City expectations.

“This has been an exceptional year for blinkx,” the firm’s chief executive S. Brian Mukherjee said. “Widespread broadband adoption, proliferation of connected devices and the accelerating consumption of video content online continue to fuel the growth of the industry.”

As well, as a broader demand for online video, Blinkx said that improving advertising sales had been fuelled by the US presidential election and the Olympics, as well as the positive impact from acquisitions.

The company, which was part of software firm Autonomy before it listed in 2007, said that annual profits will be around $15m, up from $1.9m in the previous year.

Shares in the company have doubled in the last 12 months, due to repeated upgrades to revenue guidance, although they are still well off the highs of 17 months ago. The firm’s value plummeted in November 2011 after a profit drop.

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what is exciting is blinkx is still growing.
Its growing faster than yahoo and google are now and I think there is plenty of room for blinkx to grow even higher I think blinkx has only about 10% of its revenue potential and I look for improved profit margins and new revenue sources from their 800 plus partners and internet tv and set top boxes.
I think blinkx is well on its way to produce a billion in revenue and it has a top team to get it done!:)

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Interesting point. Since there is a global slowdown, advertising may slow down as well, but it's hard to tell since video ads may just continue to go up.

I wonder if Blinkx is more careful after autonomy's blowup at HP.

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post from sobeit on another board.
But they made $196m for the full year – implying $46m for the months of Feb-March alone."

Now, I agree with that assessment so I go back to the one conundrum we have every time BM opens his mouth and that is his statement that "The Olympics and The Presidential Election" generated once-off benefits.

That statement does not stand up in the face of yours because by Feb-March both of those were well and truly over.

So why does he keep on reiterating it? Because it gives him a fall back position if things do not go as well in the 2013-2014 year as they have in the 2012-2013 year. He can point at that statement and say "it was because of those" whilst if they go according to your assessment, which in my opinion holds up and things do really go well, he is also covered.

So, I think he is covering his proverbial and what I want to see when the "finals" come out are not only the past but the projections for the year going forward. Remember last year when SC said they were only hitting 10% of their potential market. Well, your figures surely show that they are hitting more of it and will continue to do so in the next year or two.

All we need now for the price to really move ahead is a confident statement on May 13th that all is rosy in the garden and we will have flowers a plenty next year. Who is to say that given the growth this year which was obviously not anticipated at the beginning of the year that we cannot hit $300m next year with profits aplenty.

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I didn't know about the google bid rumor. Glad to see that they are making money. Hopefully, they can continue in a year with no olympics. I think they have extremely useful technology and help deliver accurate ads for online video-where all entertainment is headed.

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from motleyfool
Blinkx (BLNKF )
Shares in Fool Beginners' Portfolio constituent Blinkx have climbed 11.6% to 86.5 pence after the video technologist lifted its full-year revenue guidance to approximately $196 million, ahead of previous expectations of $180 million to 185 million. That's 71% higher than last year.

Pre-tax profit is expected to come in at about $15 million, which is some way up from last year's $1.9 million, as the firm starts to bring in serious profits. There's also a fourfold rise in basic earnings per share to $0.04 predicted, and Blinkx expects to end the year with net cash of $55 million -- an increase of $38.4 million.

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BLINKX: The video search engine company rose amid speculative buying on revived talk of a possible bid from Google, according to the Daily Mail market report.

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Yeah, that was a great bump when I opened up my stocks this week.

This company has a ton of potential, even without autonomy's "accounting" tricks.

I'm also looking into some reasonably priced mobile advertising companies as well. I am worried that there will be another 20% market correction sooner than later, so I'm not too bullish overall. Blinkx is a diamond in the rough though.

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ec4cf1b0-744e-11e2-a27c-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2KemMmNS3

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Good find on LSE with the following article:

http://www.sharesmagazine.co.uk/news/blinkx-divides-just-like-marmite#.URkb7WdZNGR

The paragraph that interests me is the following:

"But here’s the dilemma. Just how much should investors pay for this growth potential? Its harshest critics believe the Blinkx platform to be little more than an inferior YouTube, yet after the share price hike, the stock trades on a March 2014 price/earnings multiple of 22, according to Canaccord Genuity estimates."

This bit must have been the mantra of the monkeys "Its harshest critics believe the Blinkx platform to be little more than an inferior YouTube".

Now, surely that shows the problem with Blinkx; people do not understand its technology. Blinkx is not a Youtube. At one stage it might have tried to compete with Youtube but over the last two to three years it has changed its spots and has focused on a totally different market.

Now it is a facilitator of advertisements and search for companies who do not want to go to the cost of doing all the technical work of setting up support departments to develop product. In return, those companies share advertising revenue with Blinkx on a win/win basis. And there are hundreds of them who want this service.

Youtube is a dog's dinner of a product. You can shovel manure into Youtube to your heart's content and then it is up to Youtube to find the diamonds hidden in it at a huge cost to them, hence it has never made a profit.

Blinkx, on the other hand, controls exactly what it wants to find and for whom it wants to retrieve the information. Once again, the statement that the Blinkx website is only a "shop window" proves this. It is there to show what can be done rather than being the be-all and end-all in the way Youtube does and is.

So, Youtube might Ford but Blinkx is more Aston Martin. Now which would you prefer, a Fiesta or a DB9 or even a Rapide S?

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Blinkx Surges 21%

By Maynard Paton | More Articles | Save For Later
February 11, 2013 | Comments (0)

LONDON -- The shares of Blinkx (LSE: BLNX ) surged 14 pence, or 21%, to 82 pence during early London trade this morning after the video-search company said its full-year sales could be ahead of target.

Blinkx reckoned turnover for the twelve months to March 2013 could now be in the range of $180m and $185m. The firm said trading during its third quarter had been "strong."

S. Brian Mukherjee, the chief executive of Blinkx, said:

In the second half, we continued to benefit from campaign spending in the US election cycle, which, in addition to the rapid customer adoption of our expanded offerings and strong secular trends within the industry, contributed to our growth. While our advertising revenues are transactional in nature, we remain confident in our outlook and prospects for the remainder of the year.

During November, Blinkx revealed half-year sales up 84% to $82m and adjusted interim profits up 60% to $7.8m. Annual results last May showed revenues up 73% to $114m and adjusted profits up 28% to $10.4m.

During 2008, Blinkx's revenues were just $6m and its losses were $7m. The company's rapid growth, however, has not translated into smooth share-price returns.

Indeed, after joining the market during 2007 at 45 pence, the price fell to as low as 12 pence during the banking crash. But since then, the price has rallied to as high as 158 pence, then slumped to as low as 33 pence, and today now tops 82 pence.

Blinkx's current market cap is now around 300 million pounds, which compares to possible pre-tax profits of about 10 million pounds for the current year. City forecasts for 2014 suggest pre-tax profits may by 17 million pounds.

Of course, whether today's revenue upgrade, current share-price valuation and the general outlook for the video-search industry now combine to make Blinkx a buy remains up to you.

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Blinkx expects to beat on earnings.
Feb 11 (Reuters) - Blinkx PLC : * Trading in the third quarter continued to be strong * Expects to be ahead of targets, with revenue for the full year in the range

of $180 million to $185 million * Remain confident in our outlook and prospects for the remainder of the year

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blinkx re-does web site www.blinkx.com when you play a video the view gets bigger and its better than ever one up on youtube!

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0732 GMT [Dow Jones] Citigroup raises blinkx (BLNX.LN) to buy from neutral. Says 1H results gave comfort both on the operational key performance indicators for the group and underlying growth trends. Believes 2H guidance is conservatively set and notes indications are that online video ad trends remain robust. Notes two areas of concern in 1H were vacuum of newsflow and richer valuation, the latter of which it says is no longer really relevant. Notes blinkx trades at 17.0x CY2013E P/E and 11.3x CY2013E EV/EBITDA, at a discount to the European Internet peer group (18.9x / 12.4x respectively). Maintains a 90p target. Shares closed at 64p Monday

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a p/e of 30 for a tech company seems low. what is linkedin's p/e, 1000?

I agree with their growth profile though. here's to a good 2013!

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motley fool said on blinkx shares..
with Blinkx (BLNKF ) , and you'll see a P/E of 30 for the year to March 2013, which is over twice the FTSE average. The reason is that Blinkx is still a small company, just getting its technology accepted -- and if it should become a de facto standard in the world of video advertising, potential future growth could be enormous. In fact, analysts are predicting an 85% growth in earnings for the following year, which would bring the P/E down to around 16.

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Let's hope blinkx isn't pulling the same shenanigans, or if they are, they get bought out before it comes to light!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-20/hewlett-packard-implodes-after-disclosing-accounting-fraud-autonomy-plc-business

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(this post by safari Norman thanks) There is some excitement on other discussion board sites with Verti, as usual Blinkx likes to keep things hidden until they decide its time to let the market know, where other companies sing the praise of events to come, naturally they often help other companies share price when they do this.

The feeling seems to be at some stage Blinkx will float off a part and keep the Burst PVMG parts it wants, the float off part could be Zango and cheep and gaming gambling and phone mobile unit part, which might all or part go into the floated part, that might be =Verti= the part which we hear and know very little of.

If Blinkx floated off the parts setting up a different unit, that the market knows little or nothing about, would that be in the share price, would we be offered free shares, or would it contribute to future revenue, this is all speculation because we now know its a Blinkx company, but as usual we like everyone else wait to see if Blinkx will let us know on 14th November or announce it in the future.

If as i suspect =Blinkx feels it has enough good news to give share holders in November, then why not give out the news at a later date about Verti, its similar to Blinkx giving out a statement a few weeks before the results that let the market know that it expects the figures will be ahead of market expectations.

As we look at Blinkx the company is strengthening the management side for future growth, as we all know Blinkx follows the Autonomy model, i can see Blinkx with its management structure floating offf a part similar to the time Autonomy floated off Blinkx, i think Blinkx could float off a bit, within a year,
ML of Autonomy started his new venture with young start ups, and did not get on well in a heavy elephant like company called HP, ML is suited to the small quick and nimble companies, it would not surprise me to view SC thinking along the same lines with Blinkx.

The older way of thinking was build a single big company, look at the large companies that take time to change they cannot change fast enough with the companies that are internet companies, and Blinkx has a few hundred workers, where HP is letting 10,000 or 15,000 workers leave each year, Hp has missed the idea that younger people want their computer/TV/phone/game with them during the daytime, not a TV or Laptop they open when they go home.

My thoughs are Blinkx/Burst/PVMG will remain the advertising side with partners etc. and Verti will go for mobile devices/gambling phone side,
= which part would Aurasma/Blinkx/HP project fit into ?

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finally getting some respect with the Q3 report.

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Good stuff today. at least they show they can make some money on big events.