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price prediction 14-Aug-08 09:22 am Time for a reality check, because this is moving into the realms of fantasy. I set out below an extract from a post I made last January, which is still largely relevant (I have changed a couple of sentences to make the explanations clearer):
"a share can only be truly worth the discounted cash flow value of all future income attaching to its ownership. This is normally taken to mean dividend income, but in the case of early stage companies, where future income flows are difficult (if not impossible) to predict, there is a premium attaching to the prospect of take-over, which may result in a premium attaching to the share price. The amount of this premium will vary according to mood, rumour and a host of other factors. It is not possible to justify the amount of it using normal measurements. I believe Blinkx falls into this category, but it does have the attraction that it is likely to become profitable (and therefore have a measurable p/e and dividend yield) in the medium term.
Blinkx would not be a cheap acquisition because the high number of substantial investors are probably in it for the longer term and any offer price would have to be substantial to persuade them to sell. The holdings that are listed are as follows:
Autonomy 9.9%
Fidelity 8.9%
Michael Lynch 8.6%
William Blair & Co 8.6%
F&C Asset Management 7.4%
HBOS 6.3%
Standard Life Investments 4.5%
Baillie Gifford & Co 3.0%
What seems important to me is that Blinkx grows its revenue and moves towards profitability ahead of schedule. It goes without saying that it has to be equal to or ahead of its competitors, or have different capabilities, for this to happen.
I think we will see a change in the profile of the share when some reliable data is forthcoming."
Not much has changed since I wrote that. What is clear to me is that the next results announcement is important, because it will give investors a better idea of when profits are likely to start to flow. We are still a long way away from being able to predict (with any degree of certainty) what the eventual numbers are likely to be, or when dividend payments are likely to commence.
Thus, to state what the price of the share is going to be at a point in time, based on unsubstantiated opinion, is a bit silly. It might be thought to tending towards ramping.
I agree that blinkx's prospects are exciting and I am in it for the long term (hopefully!). It is interesting to follow the share price from day to day, but the most important thing is that the company continues to make progress that is reflected in its results. There is bound to be the risk that things don't progress according to plan, but it is to be hoped the risks can be managed and that Autonomy's technology, combined with Suranga Chandratillake's (and his team's) enthusiasm and evident expertise in the field will win through in the end.
ConvoCast Selects blinkx to Power Audience-Generated Content and Conversation
Tuesday August 12, 8:00 am ET
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a technology partnership with ConvoCast, a voice-enabled audio community company that has created an innovative platform for improving audience engagement and interaction for broadcast and print media companies. Leveraging telephony and the Web, ConvoCast enables real-time interaction around professional content using natural voice expression.
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ConvoCast will utilize blinkx’s patented speech recognition technology to provide transcription, discovery and intelligent tagging of audience-generated content for ConvoCast’s AudienceVox application for Radio and Television, as well as their ReaderVox application for Newspapers and Print Publishers. blinkx’s advanced rich media search technology will also be integrated into the application so that users can find relevant audio and video content about the topics they are discussing.
“Today’s content consumers want to express their opinions around professional content – anytime and anywhere,” states Eric Tulin, CEO and co-founder of ConvoCast. “ConvoCast technology enables everyone to express themselves through the simplicity and nuance of voice in real-time and syndicate those opinions to the specific audience community, as well as other social networks. With blinkx, we’ve increased the value of our white-label utility for media partners by allowing intelligent indexing of audience-generated content, search and discovery of relevant audience and professional content integrated with state-of-the-art speech recognition and voice-to-text conversion.”
“We’re delighted to be working with ConvoCast on their innovative offering,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. “The Web has evolved from a text-based universe to one filled with multimedia. People are using the Internet to communicate using video and audio, in addition to the written word. blinkx’s unique technology makes it simple for ConvoCast to index, search, and discover any rich media content that audiences are passionate about.”
US launch for tv today 13-Aug-08 07:56 am Find Family Guy, Get Gossip Girl, See South Park: blinkx Delivers a Universal Remote for TV Shows Online »
13 August 2008
For all your favorites, fast, free, full-length and from any network, blinkx Remote delivers a single gateway for online television
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – August 13, 2008 – blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced significant upgrades to blinkx Remote, the ultimate tool for finding and watching TV episodes on the Web. With blinkx Remote, users can search for their favorite TV shows from any network or provider with online content, including ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and more, all through a single gateway.
Over the past six months, the volume of long-form television content available on the Internet has exploded as more and more media companies capitalize on the potential of online distribution. While consumers have benefited tremendously from increased access to and availability of their favorite TV shows, the proliferation and fragmentation of this content across multiple sites present a navigation challenge.
blinkx Remote aggregates information and access to full-length television programs on the Web, offering audiences a one-stop-shop for finding TV shows by season, episode, title, network or genre, both quickly and legally.
“The online video landscape has changed dramatically over the past year – what was once the domain of short-form, user-generated material, has become the realm of premium television,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. “It’s a tremendous source of news and entertainment for consumers, but the content is spread across myriad sites belonging to national broadcasters and media giants. blinkx Remote leverages our award-winning video search technology to help consumers find their favorite TV shows quickly, easily and in one place.”
Leveraging blinkx’s patented video search technology, blinkx Remote filters out video spam, illegal clips, and inappropriate material that has been falsely tagged, to deliver the highest quality user experience. Audiences will find only full-length, legally available, episodes of their favorite TV programs through blinkx Remote, and will be able to sign up to receive alerts when a new show is posted through RSS or e-mail.
blinkx Remote will be available for U.S. audiences at www.tv.blinkx.com commencing August 13th, 2008.
I think it is another very good day for Blinkx. 13-Aug-08 02:11 am I think it is another very good day for Blinkx.
As for the share price, remember September 13th is St. Leger day. After that, history tells us, things will start to hot up in the market. That is now only a month away.
As for MIVA, the Blinkx deal is still potentially there given the comment that the deal was not a runner as "constituted". That does not mean it has gone away.
What is interesting today is the ConvoCast deal. There are some interesting items on its website, specifically its tie up with Facebook.
What is also interesting in the ConvoCast deal is that it focuses more on audio rather than video. From its website it is clear that ConvoCast is going after the radio stations of which there are thousands in the US. By integrating user interaction into those must open up the possibility of millions of dollars in advertising revenue.
I presume what Blinkx brings to the picture, reading the spiel, is the ability to filter out inappropriate content on the fly. Whilst, in America, carrying a gun and shooting anything that moves is ok it is totally remiss to air any profanity or insults which can be litigious.
It is also very interesting that ConvoCast is also tying itself into Facebook. Given the interest by my own family members in Facebook, the ability to "talk" to other Facebook members will escalate its appeal. This is surely just another level of integration where you have a form of "Skype" through Facebook controlled by ConvoCast and Blinkx.
Obviously, the three areas of Facebook it is starting with will lead on to a general interface driven by Blinkx. see: http://corp.convocast.com/?q=node/7
It becomes clearer with every one of these deals that Blinkx is way ahead of the posse not only in terms of technology but also in ease of integration. For example, in the Facebook connectivity you have Blinkx to ConvoCast to Facebook. If the integration between Facebook, Blinkx and ConvoCast took months to complete, the whole exercise would be a waste of time as it would take too long. But Blinkx seems to be able to do these integrations at the speed of light. And speed is the key. The internet is changing so fast that you have to have the resilience to change as quickly as user demands or you are left behind because somebody else has done it. The other thing is that Blinkx automates the whole speech process, indexes it and then integrates the results, on the fly.
A few more accolades to Autonomy and Blinkx, I think.
Stats: Blinkx vs. Competitors
Amazing:
search queery for 'opening 2008 olympics'
returns:
1. Yahoo/altavista:
http://uk.altavista.com/video/results?itag=ody&q=opening+2008+olympics&mvf=mpeg&mvf=avi&mvf=qt&mvf=msmedia&mvf=realmedia&mvf=flash&mvf=other&mvd=all
2. Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/videos/search?query=opening+2008+olympics
3. Google:
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=opening+2008+olympics&hl=en&emb=0#
against Blinkx:
http://www.blinkx.com/videos/opening+2008+olympics
Clicks on blinkx:
Hitwise records hits per site perday/week/months and gives graphs ans comparison graphs.
If you dont want to wade through all the figures, this sums it up to May, though the figures have shot up faster since then, talking blinkx from 500th+ most visited site to 200th+
It's interesting reading your posts & perspective.
I have to discount for hyping but understand it's inevitable we don that when we're involved with a share!
I like to look at how many hits blinkx is getting, compare it to its rivals, look at how many are possible (eg how fast new users are coming in online, how much new ground blinkx is taking and what plans it is bringing forth to expand) and multiply it by fees per hit = revenues.
That WILL give more than £15 ($30) a share in 2-3 years time.
It will also put blinkx in profit THIS YEAR and not in 2010
Hitwise blog:
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/heather-dougherty/2008/05/is_blinkx_the_next_acquisition_1.html
White label deals;
about 400
biggest was Fox recently:
http://www.netimperative.com/news/2008/july/2/blinkx-picks-utarget.fox-for-global-ad-drive
Biggest deal in pipeline for blinkx is BBC archives:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3177479.stm
The reason it hasn't come forth is bandwidth in my judgement.
There's a possibility the BBC may bid for blinkx but that would involve a vote to change the BBC's remit ( take over of the BBC by blinkx would be funny!)
If the BBC goes this route the revenue for the UK gvmt would be huge (it would presumably be privatised and shares traded on the stock market??
from sobeit on another board
The idea that somebody would bid its highest price for a company at the off defies anybody who goes to an auction and makes a first bids of £1,000 for something they could buy for £100. That does not make sense.
As you note, the deals Autonomy made were well and truly agreed before the news hit the papers and the internet. But look at the facts with MIVA. Bishop, the original founder of MIVA, resigned as President and CMO on 5th August 2008 "to pursue other interests". When he merged Espotting with FindWhat in 2003, The company was then worth $185m.
He has agreed to stay on the board for one year as a non-functioning director. On 8th August 2008, Blinkx puts in an offer for MIVA. What does that tell you? Bishop probably fell out with the current board and is going to do a switch to Blinkx and wants MIVA to follow suit? Probably. After all, he was the original supporter of the Blinkx arrangement with MIVA.
As for the Google deal that runs out in December 2008, that was only a facility to rub the noses of Yahoo in the proverbial. Yahoo sued MIVA for breach of copyright and MIVA had to pay them $8m and other costs relating to the court case. I presume what Blinkx plans is it to replace Google when the deal is over. After all, Google cannot supply to MIVA what Blinkx can and Blinkx can most certainly do it better when it comes to video.
Finally, what is the clincher for Blinkx. It is the same old thing that they are using 50 people to run a company providing video search to the internet whereas Google as 16,000 supplying its own search to the internet. As anybody will tell you, when you need to improve your cashflow get rid of the people. MIVA have already intimated that they are going to "restructure" by losing 15% and getting rid of Italy - well, that will be a bonus for a start. But perhaps Blinkx, who claim they can automate the whole process might be able to get rid of 40% of the people, making a killing on cost savings and bring even more to bottom line.
As stormin says, Monday could be a very interesting day.
when smaller dot com companies collide
by motely fool
Shares of new-media straggler MIVA (Nasdaq: MIVA) opened 35% higher this morning, in response to an unsolicited buyout offer by video-search specialist blinkx (OTC BB: BLNKF.PK). This would normally be cheerworthy -- if blinkx's premium proposal weren't actually an offer to take MIVA out at just $1.20 a share.
Yes, MIVA has fallen that far. And please, MIVA, do us all a favor: Take the money and run. Put us all out of our misery.
Purists may remember MIVA as FindWhat.com, one of the earliest cost-per-click paid-search advertising networks. I singled it out in Stocks 2004, the premium annual publication in which we pick promising stocks for the year ahead. FindWhat easily beat the market, closing out the year in the high teens.
Boy, am I lucky that it didn't make its way into Stocks 2005. Things have really fallen apart at the company since then. MIVA went from being consistently profitable to a dot-com disaster. It hasn't turned a quarterly profit since fall 2005. Acquisitions that seemed so important at the time -- like the purchase of Europe's Espotting, to get in on paid search abroad -- seem irrelevant these days.
Second-tier search engines like MIVA are struggling, as tight-fisted advertisers flock to larger players like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) as "must buy" platforms. Some of MIVA's peers, including LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), are getting by profitably, but MIVA has been a disaster.
It's quite telling that any positive headlines from MIVA's camp lately come from its secondary sites. Whether it's the growing popularity of its edgy Spill.com movie review site, or its A LOT toolbar lapping the 3-million-user mark, MIVA has some interesting moving parts, but it's a dud as a dot-com conglomerate.
Other smaller digital advertising players like New Motion (Nasdaq: NWMO) and ValueClick (Nasdaq: VCLK) are making the most of the sector's turmoil with timely acquisitions, but MIVA's best move at this point is to move on. I'll hold on to my memories of when the company mattered in 2004, but I'm trying to forget nearly everything else.
another post from city trade
I like this guy!
Yes it's pretty easy actually..
Blinkx is a very transparent company:
Nope my estimates have been £1 by Xmas & I've raised that to £2- by the May Full reports and would expect breakeven way ahead of projections, maybe by intrim.
Also I've been considtant with £5-£15 forecast in 2-3 years, that is 2011
I think it figures in terms of share price, hits V revenues.
The revenues are defined by blink in theor reports.
the numbers of hits are defined in companies like hitwise
You can do it by numbers or else you can do it by % increase, month on month but it amounts to the same.
I am projecting exponential growth, and I think that is reasonable for the next 4 years +, and also it's done 1000% increase since May 2007 (blinkx was doing video search before this, but only listed in May 2007)
Blinkx has had costs of IPO to pay off, otherwise it would have broken even by now.
I also look at the white collar deals blinkx is doing, the management team, the sector, and then how well blinkx performs in the sector.
The fact ot has made a takeover bid for a dead duck, MIVA, is in my view the proof that it is going to seize as much of the market in video as it can.
Blinkx is known as a video search engine, but it makes its money from relevant advertising placement.
I saw doubleclick growing (from close up) and it had a similar drive.
THere is a lesson to be learned from recovery stocks as Autonomy, the larent company was trading at £00.93p and is now £10.00, although at the height of the dot com boom it was £40-. Mike Lynch took it off Nasdaq.
But it's proven a sound recovery stock, and blinkx is certianly there.
I think the market got it right on the day of its launch.
MIVA deal gave me great confidence because I'd beleived the team at blinkx was capable of playing big time, but didn't have any evidence of it.
Suranga Chandratilake has some formiddable investing expertise to draw on from his major shareholders and his team are international
.
I dont think it's an easy business model to understand because there are so many software options, but the bottam line is clicks=revenue.
There are serious advantages with blinkx over alternatives: try google video, altavista video, yahoo video etc
Compare them and its obvious why blinkx is booming.
So I factor in competance, vision and energy of management, what advice they can call on, and how their business plan has worked or failed.
In a climate where credit is very difficult or at exhorbitant rates, blinkx has large cash reserves.
But there are also deals in the offing: the BBC archives is the obvious one and negotiations I gather have been going on for months. Even if blinkx doesn't get that, it has already gazzumped the market with launch after launch.
On line video is just starting. The speed of signalling is going to increase dramatically by 2011.
Portable computing, mobiles and wearables will become mainstream and MOST of the stuff on line will be driven by advertising.
blinkx doesn't charge you to advertise...it just shares revenues out of profits.
I am also aware of developments in logic and software which has become increasing model driven, and new languages are coming.
At present anyone with a foothold in intelligent computing, which I know a little about, is going to clean up.
i have spoken to the head of Google R&D and ditto microsoft head of research @ microsoft and it's my judgement blinkx can nail the market before they knw what's hit them.
They aren't idiots and will try to tackle the revenue side of video search, but blinkx has patented everything it's brought out so they will either do some tight deals, or try to buy blinkx.
The highest user increase is the 12-17yr old americans, and I expect gaming to be available at some stage with blinkx systems (i've no knowledge of blinkx working on this, it would juts be a surprize if they didn't do it):
The video gaming industry is pre
from city trade on another board
I asked him what his targets are for blinkx in us money here is his reply..
Assume $2 to £1
Price in US $4 by next full reports:
$10-$30 in 2-3 years.
I think my estimates are conservative.
There are several monitoring agencies and they are pretty well reporting the same things with different measures.
Blinkx hits were up 51% ON ONE MONTH thru June/July)
this is hardly surprizing as they're in Brazil's huge market, and Russian federation also massive.
The next leap will be to make a huge presence in India.
There've been profits taking today.
I'd be very surprized if the MIVA deal goes through, but it is blinkx trumpet call as it enters the American world
There aren't enough shares to go round and the price is well below its launch.
As blinkx gains attention it will become recommended by analysts.
It's only been listed 1 year and 2 months & launched during a terrible financial climate.
But its results are ABOVE market forecasts, so a 69p price on its launch day may seem cheap next year.
It is very hard to be objective about a share one has vested interest in.
I tried to get back in at 27.1 but was forced in at 32.21 as I want to watch this soar.
The credit crisis has been over hyped and the banks are off the bottam. Bears sterns is already doing better for JPMorganChase (who own 7% of blink ) and Northern Rock the British Bear sterns is producing profits ahead of expectations in what now looks like a government grab!
Recovery stocks (blinkx is that) seems one of the best ways of making money I've looked at.
MIVA Board of Directors Rejects blinkx Offer
Friday August 8, 5:24 pm ET
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MIVA, Inc., (NASDAQ:MIVA - News), a digital media company, today said that following careful review and consideration, its Board of Directors has rejected the unsolicited proposal publicly released by blinkx PLC (LSE AIM: BLNX) to acquire the company for $1.20 per share.
"After careful evaluation, the MIVA Board believes that blinkx's proposal significantly undervalues MIVA's assets, including our technology, brand recognition and network," said Larry Weber, MIVA's Chairman of the Board. "We don't believe that the proposal, as currently constituted, is in the best interests of our shareholders. The Board of Directors continues to evaluate all of MIVA's strategic options in the context of our industry and the broader business environment and remains committed to evaluating and considering offers that maximize shareholder value."
The investment bank Petsky Prunier is acting as financial advisors and Baker & McKenzie LLP is acting as legal advisors to MIVA in this process
This is a copy of a post made today by another poster on another message board ..
He titled it Blinkx going to NASDAQ
the astute analysts among you will have seem this advantage on MIVA's aquisition....it's already on NASDAQ.
Rock on suraga.
There is a ripple of alarm as you have run to the tall diving oard and thumped into the water hahaha.
Yep connected to eBay et all.
Google started like this.
It's the team the team!
Autonomy's entering the FSTSE 100 shortly and Blinkx is going on NASDAQ with a merge.
MIVA must be swinging from the chandeliers.
Blinkx should also look to aquire others at the same time suing valuable leverage in an economy where credit is difficult for small companies.
JPMorganChase on the board Wiliam Bliar..big (biggest) USA investment houses will guide blinkx (and their own 10% of the company) to boom.
The markets pioneers at the edge have turned. It is very hard to call a top or bottam but the enterprisers in expanding fields will be leading it.
did anyone see Boulton (Fidelity) last night.Sound interview of the arch UK contrarian:
Major Shareholders' Information
F&C Asset Management 11.0%
Autonomy Corporation plc 9.9%
William Blair & Co 9.5%
Michael Lynch 8.6%
HBOS plc 7.2%
JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 6.0%
FMR LLC 5.0%
Fidelity International Ltd 3.8%
Between a rock and YouTube, video execs see promise
Posted by Stefanie Olsen 3 comments
SAN FRANCISCO--If the $1 billion Web video advertising market is to reach the level of television's estimated $50 billion, it ironically won't be thanks to YouTube, the Internet's most popular spot for watching clips.
That's at least the read from Internet video executives here Thursday at the RBC Capital conference. Executives from popular video search and ad companies said that so-called user-generated videos like those on YouTube aren't drawing any significant dollars from advertisers or agencies. Advertisers need to control their brand, and it's seen as too risky to give up that control on a network with home videos or potentially pirated broadcasts.
One executive went so far as to say that user-generated videos will never make money.
"It will be like instant messaging. It's ubiquitous but no one makes money on it," said Thomas Wilde, CEO of Everyzing, which hosts digital audio and video for major broadcasters such as Fox Sports and Cox Radio.
Of course, he has a stake in supporting professional content. But that's still a controversial idea, given that Google spent $1.6 billion to buy YouTube two years ago. Despite the site's enormous popularity--it's the no. 5 Web site--YouTube has yet to make money from the massive video inventory it produces. Industry insiders have even estimated that it costs Google as much as $1 million a day in bandwidth fees to serve hundreds of millions of videos, according to Fortune.
Suranga Chandratillake, CEO and founder of video search service Blinkx, speculated that Google didn't really care about the costs when it bought YouTube. The acquisition, he said, was likely about acquiring those millions of people who visit YouTube every day--the same rationale behind Microsoft's interest in Facebook. (That said, YouTube has sought to form partnerships for professional videos.)
He disagreed with Wolfe that user-generated content will never make money.
"It will have to be a very different kind of advertising. If someone does figure it out, then Google will be in a good position," he said.
So when and for whom will the money start rolling in? Video ad executives said that while YouTube has a lot of inventory that's hard to monetize, sites with professional content such as Hulu.com don't have enough inventory to serve demand from brand advertisers.
Jayant Kadambi, CEO of video ad network YUME, said that in February, a major auto manufacturer called him and asked to spend $2 million on online video broadcasts the day before the Super Bowl. "I couldn't take it," Kadambi said, clarifying that he didn't have enough inventory. (His company now runs Microsoft's video ad platform.)
He said only recently has there been enough video to start targeting ads to people's demographics, location and age. That has kept the cost of video ads relatively high--between $10 cost per thousand impressions and $20 cost per thousand.
Video executives also said that they're getting higher rates of response on video ads than typical online display ads, which can command as low as 0.1 percent click through rates. They said that the more popular pre-roll video ads--or ads that play before a broadcast--are getting anywhere from 2 percent to 6 percent response rates.
Still, Blinkx's Chandratillake said hosting and streaming video is expensive, particularly compared with a text page. "If you are a publisher you're paying for this expense and you're trying to figure out how ad revenue will offset that expense," he said.
"What we've found is that advertisers and agencies are only interested in professional media, so professional content providers are having a good time finding extremely high demand because they have a lack of video views," he said.
He said his company has had some success creating a program to place sponsored videos next to searched-for broadcasts.
As for getting to TV-like spending, advertising executives said that that likely won't happen soon, if ever.
"I don't think it's going to be a $50 billion business, but it's going to be a more efficient business, one that's targeted and relevant," said Brandon Berger, an executive at MDC Partners, a holding company for several digital advertising agencies.
Blinkx makes 39 million offer for MIVA
Adds CEO comments, reaction, share price)
LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - London-listed Blinkx Plc (BLNX.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), an Internet video search company, has proposed buying U.S. search-based ad network Miva (MIVA.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) for $39 million to accelerate its expansion in targeted Web advertising.
Blinkx Chief Executive Suranga Chandratillake said buying the Nasdaq-listed company would allow Blinkx to deploy its technology across Miva's portfolio of consumer sites.
"Miva is an obvious match," he told Reuters in a telephone interview. "They have an advanced distribution network business and a toolbar business that is also strong."
Shares in Blinkx were up 2.6 percent at 30 pence at 1058 GMT, as PiperJaffray analyst Rajeev Bahl said it could be a transformational deal.
"Blinkx's proposed bid for Miva has the potential to significantly change the shape of the business, marrying Blinkx's advanced search and ad-matching capabilities to Miva's material base of search-based advertising revenue," he said in a note.
Chandratillake said the deal would be a shortcut in the company's strategy of growing its targeted advertising revenues, but he would walk away if he could not get the right terms.
"We think it can be done at this price, but we are not committed to doing it," he said.
The approach, which has been made in a letter to Miva's board, proposes paying $1.20 a share -- a 54 percent premium on Miva's closing price on Thursday -- and would be funded entirely in cash, he said. (Reporting by Paul Sandle, editing by Will Waterman)
blinkx CEO Suranga Chandratillake To Speak At RBC Capital Markets' Technology Conference
Tuesday August 5, 8:00 am ET
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that Founder and CEO Suranga Chandratillake will be presenting at the RBC Capital Markets Technology, Media and Communications Conference in San Francisco, California. Chandratillake is scheduled to participate in a panel on online video Thursday, August 7th at 11:30 a.m. PT at the Four Seasons Hotel.
A highly respected expert on the convergence of Web and TV, Chandratillake is well-qualified to provide important insight into the world of online video. As the world’s leader in video search, blinkx has signed more than 350 media partners and indexed over 26 million hours of video content on the Web, and has built a reputation as one of the most intelligent search engines available.
St Marys is near where I live .
West Virgina is the state the article mentions its the only one in the state.
they are very pleased I have called this hospital before they said they zero complaints so far.
grant what was ARAY's IPO price?
glad to hear your reply data rox
I think IDCC should buy AUTH for the future of cell phones fingerprint tech the best in the biz for cell phones and computers 2 huge mkts and 52 week low to boot
jimlur
In your own words what would you like to see happen with this new
money?
a. another share buy back.
b. key aquistion
c. dividend for shareholders
d. split the stock 3 for 2
e. reinvest in new future cell phone tech
f. call Jim Cramer and tell him he was wrong again .
p.s. I think AUTH would be a perfect fit for IDCC to buy its at a 52 week low AUTH will start being in cell phones in the USA probably 2009/ for security feature..
also when will idcc get the money from samsung?
Blinkx Video Search Guns for Google
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2008-07-16
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Blinkx offers a white-label video search service as it seeks to compete with Google and other Web service providers.
Oft-rumored Google acquisition target blinkx served up its latest video search fare July 16 in the form of Red Label, a syndication service that lets customers run and make money from videos indexed by blinkx on their sites.
The idea makes total sense. Thanks to broadband ubiquity and the rocketing popularity of Google's YouTube, video is table stakes for Web sites who want to not only attract users, but keep them there as long as possible.
By embedding ads within the videos, as well as along the sides of their properties, Web site owners hope to crack into the market for video ads, one that Google has barely scratched. It's also one that IDC and Forrester Research both claim is positioned for explosive growth in the next few years, surpassing even search ad growth.
Through leveraging the blinkx Red Label service, which bears a striking resemblance to the white-label social network model, customers will better be able to make money from advertising on the videos because advertising is built into the services, blinkx founder and CEO Suranga Chandratillake told me.
To use blinkx Red Label, customers sign up on blinkx and get immediate access to APIs that let them embed blinkx Web video search on their Web sites or applications.
Red Label is free; blinkx makes money through ad revenue earned from the service. When users sign up to use the service, they offer ads or let blinkx ads run on their videos. The customers split money generated from these ads 50-50 with blinkx. Sites with less than 10,000 hits per day can opt out of the ad model.
There are two primary models, Chandratillake told me. One is an XML-based model that provides customers with complete control over display and on-page integration.
The second model is a hosted version that hosts search results at blinkx.com. However, these are rendered to searchers with the aesthetics of the customer's site. Customers add code that drops the blinkx search box on their site and blinkx takes care of everything else.
Red Label will be offered in two tiers based on the size of the portal or Web site: one for larger customers that will include blinkx services, and as a self-service portal for smaller sites. Russian search engine Rambler and MSN UK have beta tested Red Label to this point.
Blinkx has 26 million hours of video content in its index from which customers may choose from for Red Label. It's also the best independent video search app out there, thanks to the blend of conceptual search, speech recognition and visual analysis software it employs.
Perhaps only Google will argue that Google's video search, on YouTube or its other properties, is superior.
But I have concerns: namely, well, YouTube. Like Google for search, YouTube is the premier destination for video hosting and sharing, and users can pretty much find what they want from that site with a few keyword searches. Where does blinkx's opportunity lie? It's not in doing searches on YouTube.
Chandratillake told me Google has both technically and strategically attacked the video hosting model rather than the video search model. "They are doing a little more video search now, but it's still pretty half-hearted compared to what they've thrown into the video hosting and video sharing model."
He went on to say the opportunity for those that want to leverage video without going through YouTube is huge because large companies are wary of working with Google. He also noted that Yahoo doesn't have video search and that Microsoft's MSN has a poor video search tool.
So, while the rumors run wild that Google may have eyed blinkx in the past, it sounds more like Chandratillake and Co. are angling for their own slice of the market, or perhaps a comfy exit strategy into the arms of Yahoo or Microsoft.
jimlur
I seen mad money Jim Cramer said to buy QCOM the only semi with his blessing he also like nokia he said the nokia deal was great for QCOM ..
do you own shares of QCOM with your idcc shares and where does IDCC fit with the qcom and nok connection please clear this up for me..
the other thing he said to buy RIMM saying their new ouch screen phones will be babe magnets and IDCC has a deal with rimm does these new touch screens phones use idcc tech too thanks in advance.
Press Release Source: blinkx plc
Hunting for Hollyoaks? Trawling for Top Gear? Want to Catch Corrie? blinkx Offers a Universal Remote for TV Shows Online
Wednesday July 30, 2:00 am ET
For all your favorites, fast, free, full-length and from any station, blinkx Remote delivers a single gateway for online television in the U.K.
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced the launch of its latest blinkx Remote service, the ultimate tool for finding and watching TV episodes on the Web. blinkx Remote provides users with a way to find their favourite TV shows from any channel with online content, including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five and more.
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Online video is no longer solely the domain of skateboarding kittens and the odd clip of David Brent dancing. Viewers can now watch full episodes of their favorite television shows when it suits them, without worrying about the link cutting out halfway through. All this choice does, however, present the problem of how to find what you want to watch, blinkx Remote is designed to help you do just that.
“The online video landscape has changed dramatically over the past year - what was once the domain of short-form, user-generated material, has become the realm of premium television,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. “It’s a tremendous source of news and entertainment for consumers, but the content is spread across myriad sites belonging to national broadcasters and media giants. blinkx Remote uses our award-winning video search technology to help consumers find their favorite TV shows quickly, easily and in one place.”
Leveraging blinkx’s patented video search technology, blinkx Remote filters out video spam, illegal clips, and inappropriate material that has been falsely tagged, to deliver the highest quality user experience. Audiences will find only full length, legally available, episodes of their favourite TV programmes through blinkx Remote, and will be able to sign up to receive alerts when a new show is posted through RSS or email.
blinkx Remote will be available for U.K. audiences at http://tv.blinkx.com/ commencing July 30th, 2008. A version of the product for the U.S. market is upcoming.
About blinkx
Ahead of the Bell: Accuray upgraded
Tuesday July 29, 8:42 am ET
Accuray upgraded ahead of new product debuts and test results for CyberKnife system
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Soleil Securities analyst upgraded shares of Accuray Inc. Tuesday, saying the radiosurgery device maker's stock should rise as it details new products and gives updates on clinical trials.
Junaid Husain said anticipation about Accuray's new products will lift the stock before the annual American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology meeting. ASTRO will hold its annual meeting in Boston from Sept. 21 to 25.
The analyst expects positive results from tests of Accuray's CyberKnife robotic surgery system in the treatment of prostate cancer.
Husain raised his rating to "Buy" from "Hold," increasing his price target to $11 per share from $9. Shares of the Sunnyvale, Calif., company closed at $7.74 Monday, and last traded at $11 on Feb. 28.
The analyst added that Accuray and its partner CyberHeart should begin testing a treatment for atrial fibrillation in November.
OT: tina and grant
Blinkx signed a deal with microsoft in the UK to search for tis videos blinkx is still only .50 cents for now!
Utarget.Fox to Take blinkx Worldwide for Advertising Sales
Thursday July 24, 12:00 am ET
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--.FOX Networks, the leading international ad network operated by Fox International Channels (FIC), announced today that its video advertising division, Utarget.Fox, has signed a significant global sales agreement with blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine. As part of the deal, Utarget.Fox will sell advertising externally on the blinkx platform across its 33 regional offices and sell inventory on a transparent basis in the UK.
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Through the agreement with blinkx, Utarget.Fox will monetize premium partner content. Utarget.Fox will also offer clients audio keyword in-video banners which leverage blinkx’s patented speech recognition technology to match the content with suitable client banners. In addition to video ad representation, Utarget.Fox and blinkx will work together to provide vertical channels and promotion of FOX content across the regional presences of blinkx.
Phil Cooper, CEO and founder of Utarget.Fox comments, “The recent acquisition of Utarget by .FOX Networks has enabled us to strengthen the relationship Utarget enjoys with blinkx, by expanding and delivering on the promise of Utarget.Fox, which combines a strong video offering with a worldwide sales presence.”
Video Advertising (as TV advertising is called when online) is experiencing a steep growth curve as brand-friendly formats continue to help advertisers reach audiences migrating to the Internet for their viewing consumption. Utarget.Fox has three years of experience in the emerging Video Advertising sector and can now leverage early relationships and well-formed technology within its new home at FIC.
“blinkx is at the forefront of optimizing ways for publishers to monetise and manage their video content,” explained Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “Working with Utarget offers our partners an effective mechanism for getting in touch with the right advertisers.”
In April 2008, Utarget.Fox became part of .FOX, the online ad network which provides transparent, brand safe placement for international advertisers. With online and TV sales teams in 33 offices spanning Europe, Latin America and Asia, .FOX Networks allows access to the quality inventory of News Corporation and premium third party publishers.
Notes to Editors:
About Utarget.Fox:
Utarget.Fox (www.utarget.co.uk) operates the video division of .Fox Networks (www.foxnetworks.com). Established in 2000, and acquired by FIC in April 08, Utarget clients include Pepsi, Dell, AOL, BMW, Guinness.
About blinkx:
blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 26 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge – as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to – and even see – the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.
About Fox International Channels:
Fox International Channels (FIC), a unit of Fox Entertainment Group, is the wholly-owned global pay television subsidiary of News Corporation. FIC develops and distributes wholly- and majority-owned entertainment, factual, sports and movie channels in virtually all markets across Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. Using a variety of strong brands, FIC broadcasts 121 television services in 29 languages. These networks and their related mobile, non-linear and high-definition extensions, reach over 268 million subscribers, making FIC one of the most penetrated and diverse operations in the television industry.
jimlur
Okay now that Nokia settled with QCOM they also signed a 3G deal to boot.
Does this mean Nokia no longer needs pattens from IDCC for 3G?
thats great for QCOM shareholders how do you reflect its good for IDCC shareholders?
Also how much was QCOM awarded from Nokia?
is nysepick still holding itkg?
BLINKX VIDEO SEARCH GUNS FOR GOOGLE
By Clint Boulton
blinkx offers a white-label video search service as it seeks to compete with Google and other Web service providers.
Oft-rumored Google acquisition target blinkx served up its latest video search fare July 16 in the form of Red Label, a syndication service that lets customers run and make money from videos indexed by blinkx on their sites.
The idea makes total sense. Thanks to broadband ubiquity and the rocketing popularity of Google's YouTube, video is table stakes for Web sites who want to not only attract users, but keep them there as long as possible.
By embedding ads within the videos, as well as along the sides of their properties, Web site owners hope to crack into the market for video ads, one that Google has barely scratched. It's also one that IDC and Forrester Research both claim is positioned for explosive growth in the next few years, surpassing even search ad growth.
Through leveraging the blinkx Red Label service, which bears a striking resemblance to the white-label social network model, customers will better be able to make money from advertising on the videos because advertising is built into the services, blinkx founder and CEO Suranga Chandratillake told me.
To use blinkx Red Label, customers sign up on blinkx and get immediate access to APIs that let them embed blinkx Web video search on their Web sites or applications.
Red Label is free; blinkx makes money through ad revenue earned from the service. When users sign up to use the service, they offer ads or let blinkx ads run on their videos. The customers split money generated from these ads 50-50 with blinkx. Sites with less than 10,000 hits per day can opt out of the ad model.
There are two primary models, Chandratillake told me. One is an
The second model is a hosted version that hosts search results at blinkx.com. However, these are rendered to searchers with the aesthetics of the customer's site. Customers add code that drops the blinkx search box on their site and blinkx takes care of everything else.
Red Label will be offered in two tiers based on the size of the portal or Web site: one for larger customers that will include blinkx services, and as a self-service portal for smaller sites. Russian search engine Rambler and MSN UK have beta tested Red Label to this point.
blinkx has 26 million hours of video content in its index from which customers may choose from for Red Label. It's also the best independent video search app out there, thanks to the blend of conceptual search, speech recognition and visual analysis software it employs.
Perhaps only Google will argue that Google's video search, on YouTube or its other properties, is superior.
But I have concerns: namely, well, YouTube. Like Google for search, YouTube is the premier destination for video hosting and sharing, and users can pretty much find what they want from that site with a few keyword searches. Where does blinkx's opportunity lie? It's not in doing searches on YouTube.
Chandratillake told me Google has both technically and strategically attacked the video hosting model rather than the video search model. "They are doing a little more video search now, but it's still pretty half-hearted compared to what they've thrown into the video hosting and video sharing model."
He went on to say the opportunity for those that want to leverage video without going through YouTube is huge because large companies are wary of working with Google. He also noted that Yahoo doesn't have video search and that Microsoft's MSN has a poor video search tool.
So, while the rumors run wild that Google may have eyed blinkx in the past, it sounds more like Chandratillake and Co. are angling for their own slice of the market, or perhaps a comfy exit strategy into the arms of Yahoo or Microsoft.
Rumored Google target Blinkx teams with Microsoft, others
By Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews
July 16, 2008, 3:44 PM
Video search provider Blinkx sharpened its defense and offense against a possible buyout from Google or Yahoo today, announcing new pacts with several major online partners, one of which happens to be owned by Microsoft.
The new deals between Blinkx and MSN UK, Russian Internet portal Rambler, and Elo Company center around Blinx's newly rolled out Red Label, a program designed to give partners customizable access to Blinkx's video search engine and the up to 26 million hours of video content in the Blinkx index.
Through the deal with MSN UK, the video content in the Blinkx index will become searchable via Microsoft Live Search throughout the United Kingdom.
In the agreement with Rambler, Blinkx will power video search for the Russian portal, giving users access to an index of over three million Russian-language video clips. Under terms of the arrangement, advertising revenue from the project will be shared by Blinkx and Rambler.
Elo, on the other hand, will partner with Blinkx in a new initiative called Blinkx Brasil, which will use Blinkx's broadband TV technology to deliver video from Elo's library of premium content. The beta version of Blinkx Brasil will be available through a free software download from both the Blinkx and Elo Web sites.
Meanwhile, Blinkx has lately been the subject of acquisition rumors involving not just Google and Yahoo but other players.
"Speculation is rising around a potential acquisition of Blinkx, a video search engine, by either Google or News Corp. (and possibly Yahoo)," noted a blog posting in May by Heather Dougherty, director of research at the Hitwise market research firm.
"Traffic to Blinkx has increased steadily over the past year. [The] market share of visits for the week ending May 10, 2008 is 10x higher than the same week in 2007. Much of this growth is being driven by new users, since 62% of the traffic to Blinkx during the same timeframe had not visited the Web site in the past 30 days," according to the analyst.
Since then, Google's legal struggles over YouTube's allegedly illegal use of Viacom's video content intensified somewhat, though Viacom did decide on Monday not to pursue its request for YouTube users' IP addresses.
Both Google and Yahoo also offer video search; and Yahoo also runs a Web-based video sharing service as well, after its purchase of Jumpcut in the fall of 2006, though that doesn't seem to be publicized in recent months. Blinkx's search engine, however, is touted as using a mix of conceptual search, speech recognition, and visual analysis software to specifically find and "quality" video.
Blinkx's new Red Label program for partners is available in both a fully hosted version and an XML-based edition.
there are 4 press releases on blinkx today..
1. Deal with MSN in the UK with blinkx.
2. #1 portal in Russia signs deal with blinkx for video search tech.
3.Targets latin internet users with Brasil featured on web site.
4.Has a new product free of charge to partners called red label to enhance advertising market.
good job TEAM BLINKX
wall street will one day look at you all its just a matter of time !
blinkx Syndicates Video Search; Delivers Gold Standard in Video Search Plus Access to the Largest Video Index on the Internet »
16 July 2008
Tune in to the Video Web with blinkx Red Label
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – JULY 16, 2008 - blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced the availability of blinkx Red Label, a complete, flexible solution that enables customers to harness the Video Web and capitalize on the thriving online video advertising market. Under the terms of a Red Label agreement, blinkx will deploy and power its patented video search technology on customers’ sites, delivering new revenue through advertising. Implementing blinkx Red Label is fast and free of charge, and gives customers access to the largest and most diverse index of video on the Web, as well as blinkx’s industry-leading search technology.
With the ubiquity of broadband, consumers today want and expect video to be part of their online experience; blinkx Red Label enables customers to incorporate rich media into their Web sites, enhancing the user experience and appeal of the site, while increasing its potential for monetization. The solution leverages blinkx’s patented, award-winning video search technology, and draws on the 26 million hours of premium video content in the blinkx index.
blinkx Red Label is an end-to-end solution that will be offered in two tiers based on the size of the portal or Web site: one for larger customers that will involve blinkx services, and the other a self-service portal for smaller sites.
“Whether you’re launching a new Web site, or want to integrate rich media into an existing site, blinkx Red Label delivers a complete solution for your video needs,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “We offer immediate, up-to-date access to the Web’s largest index of top quality video in addition to the world’s most powerful video search technology, with fast, easy integration.”
Unlike other search engines that attempt to repurpose technology built for the Text Web, blinkx uses a unique combination of patented conceptual search, speech recognition and visual analysis software to find and qualify online video more effectively than any other service today.
Benefits of blinkx Red Label
Fast, Easy Integration: There are no setup or professional services fees to deploy blinkx Red Label, and the average implementation takes just three hours. There are two available models for implementation:
• Fully Hosted: search results are hosted at blinkx.com, with the look-and-feel of the customer’s site
• XML: provides customers with complete control over display and on-page integration
Broad Flexible Functionality: A broad range of functionality enables customers to integrate blinkx Red Label in a variety of ways to best serve their site’s design and purpose. From advanced sorting and filtering features, including language and family filters, to innovative display and integration options, such as the unique blinkx Video Wall, blinkx Red Label can be customized to meet customers’ needs.
Instant Monetization: Online Video Advertising is the fastest growing segment of online advertising. Forrester Research predicts the market will reach $7.2 billion by 2012. blinkx Red Label enables customers to maximize revenue by using their own ads or ones delivered by blinkx. Highly targeted advertising can be delivered in a variety of innovative, user-friendly formats which yield a high CPM.
Complete: With access to 26 million hours of content from a wide range of sites across the Internet, blinkx Red Label delivers the most comprehensive, most current and most accurate Web video index in the world. blinkx’s 350 content partners include top tier media companies and premium niche content producers.
For more information on blinkx Red Label, please visit www.blinkx.com/products/RedLabel.
blinkx Partners with Digital Media Pioneer Elo Company to Launch blinkx Brasil, Online Television for Latin American Audiences Around the World »
16 July 2008
Joint venture will offer the latest in Brazilian music, film, sports and special interest content over broadband to computers everywhere
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – JULY 16, 2008 – blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced an online television venture with digital media pioneer Elo Company to deliver high-quality entertainment, including films, music videos and special interest channels, to audiences around the world.
The initiative, blinkx Brasil, will deliver Elo’s library of premium content through blinkx’s ground-breaking broadband television (BBTV) technology. The beta version of blinkx Brasil is a small download (0.5 MB) that will be available free of charge at www.blinkx.com and www.elocompany.com.
blinkx Brasil will debut in beta in conjunction with the 10th anniversary party of Deckdisc, one of Brazil's leading independent record companies, in Rio de Janeiro. At the time of launch, it will offer the best in Brazilian music, film (including new releases), sports, food and fashion. blinkx and Elo will also be adding features, such as transcripts of the audio track, channels and more premium video content to the blinkx Brasil offering in coming months.
While watching the Elo Cinema Latino or Elo Gourmet channel on blinkx Brasil, viewers will have a variety of useful features – never possible before – right at their fingertips, including background information on the program. In addition, users can opt to sit back and watch all programming in full-screen, on-demand and in TV-quality.
“The Latin American market is one of the most exciting and fast-growing in the Internet industry,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. “There are more than 15 million people watching online video in Brazil alone, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with one of the world’s leaders in digital media to bring TV-quality, premium entertainment to audiences everywhere.”
“Elo has been a pioneer in digital media in Brazil and is very proud to partner with blinkx. We believe this will be a great opportunity for producers, users and advertisers: producers will now be able to show their content to a significant audience in a market with limited traditional windows, and users will be able to watch a great variety of content with the best of TV combined with all the interactivity of the Internet,” said Ruben Feffer, founder of Elo Company. “Brands will also want to communicate with their audience in an innovative and efficient way. blinkx brings to video what Google brought to text on the Internet. The possibilities are unlimited."
blinkx Brasil is a significant advance in online television that leverages blinkx’s patented speech and visual recognition technology to simultaneously deliver a high-quality viewing experience over the Internet, and link it to the universe of information on the Web, adding dimension and context to the viewer’s experience.
With hybrid peer-to-peer streaming and a simple, point-and-click channel interface, blinkx Brasil delivers online television that is full-screen, TV-quality and truly immersed in the Internet. Until now, Web video has simply used the Internet as a new distribution mechanism, failing to exploit its true potential. By fusing TV and other video with the Web, blinkx Brasil enables users to instantly browse or interact with online sources related to what they are watching, whether it’s Google, Wikipedia, or other Web sites offering relevant information.
Russia’s Largest Portal Selects blinkx to Power Video Search »
16 July 2008
Top Russian Internet brand, Rambler, signs Red Label deal with blinkx
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – JULY 16, 2008 - blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has inked a Red Label agreement with Rambler (www.rambler.ru), a leading Russian Internet portal. Rambler has selected blinkx to power its video search, providing users with easy, efficient access to an index of over 3 million Russian language video clips. Under the terms of the agreement, revenue from advertising related to the project will be shared between Rambler and blinkx.
eMarketer predicts that by the end of 2008, Russia will be the second largest Internet market in Europe, with more than 40 million Internet users (eMarketer, February 2008). Rambler Media makes up a significant segment of the market, having developed some of Russia’s top Internet brands. In April 2008, Rambler Media’s Web sites generated over two billion page views, establishing Rambler as one of the biggest names in the Russian online community. Its main property, Rambler.ru, combines search and navigation functions with the latest in media to bring the Russian-speaking consumer audience the best in content. Rambler’s continuously updated video index will be completely searchable by blinkx as a result of the Red Label deal. blinkx’s expert video search technology includes language agnostic speech recognition and visual analysis software, producing the most accurate, relevant results possible.
“Russia is one of the largest, fastest growing Internet markets in Europe, and we’re delighted to partner with one of the country’s most prominent media companies,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “It’s exciting to be part of this dynamic industry and we plan to expand blinkx’s presence even further globally.”
“We’ve always been committed to offering the Russian community the best user experience possible,” said Anna Znamenskaya, chief sales & partnership officer. “We’re thrilled to be entering into a partnership with blinkx, a company that provides the best in video search technology. Our users will now be able to find all their favorite Russian language clips faster and more accurately than ever before.”
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech-recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.
blinkx Partners With MSN UK to Enhance Video Search Results
Wednesday July 16, 8:00 am ET
Agreement Will Make blinkx Video Index Available Through Microsoft Live Search in the UK
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with MSN UK to make premium content within the blinkx Video Index searchable through Microsoft Live Search in the United Kingdom.
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The blinkx Video Index encompasses over 26 million hours of online TV and video, including content from more than 350 top-tier media companies.
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech-recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.
here is a audio of ceo and founder of blinkx Suranga Chandratalake
interview done in feb of 2008 by wallstreet.net its free and do not have to join anything to listen..
http://www.wallst.net/audio/audio.php?id=4461
grant
looks like ARAY is weakened again by bad news frombanks and poor mkt conditions and I was wandering what is going on with R and D with aray for other uses other cancers and the back and heart condtions are these years away or are they close to FDA approval in other words whats all in the works for new tech at ARAY? thanks in advance
ANALYST ESTIMATES for blinkx from yahoo london
EPS Est (next year): 0.66p (london currency)
Revenue (next year): 28.84 M
Net Debt (next year): N/A
Avg Rec (current)*: 1.0 (strong buy)
* (Strong Buy) 1.0 - 3.0 (Strong Sell)
new blimp being built
http://news.yahoo.com/s/aviation/boeingbuildingbiggesthelicopterever
blinkx up 21% ont he london exchange early on and more than 3 times its normal volume yet still no news so far..
Not sure whats going on ..
Google's YouTube ad revenue short of expectations: report
Wednesday July 9, 2:50 am ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advertising revenue from YouTube is likely to total about $200 million this year and thus fall short of parent company Google Inc's <GOOG.O expectations, The Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
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Google also has significantly cut the number of YouTube clips it will sell ads against, so as not to sell them against videos that may violate copyrights, the newspaper said, citing one source.
Google and YouTube are being sued for copyright infringement in two cases involving YouTube and a second suit where the lead plaintiff is the English
The Internet advertising leader only sells ads against clips posted on YouTube that are approved by media companies or other partners, which represent just 4 percent of the clips on YouTube, a source said.
Much of the remainder are user-generated clips where rights are uncertain and where advertisers may be nervous about placing their ads against videos of unknown origin.
Google also plans accepting "preroll" and "postroll" ads to run before or after some YouTube clips. These ad formats, while considered effective with advertisers are often unpopular with Web users, one of the sources said.
The Journal reported that Google North American ad sales chief Tim Armstrong has been scrutinizing YouTube's ad sales system and that he and his colleagues had identified 105 problems with YouTube's ad sales, again citing one source.
"Over the past several months we've learned a lot about what works and what doesn't for our community and our advertisers," a YouTube spokesman said. The spokesman declined to comment on specific figures in the Journal report.
(Reporting by Ajay Kamalakaran in Bangalore and Eric Auchard in San Francisco; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and David Holmes)
Deadliest job in America Next time you can't get a cell phone signal in the middle of town, put your problem in perspective: New figures show that the deadliest job in America now goes to the men and women who construct, upgrade, and repair cell phone towers.
According to a story in this week's RCR Wireless News (no online link yet), building and climbing towers (which can be hundreds of feet tall) is more dangerous than ranching, fishing, logging, and even ironworking. The fatality rate is currently 183.6 deaths per 100,000 workers: Five tower workers died during one 12-day span earlier this year alone. 18 tower workers died on the job in 2006.
The cause for the runup in tower worker deaths isn't completely clear, but it's likely a combination of careless working practices (workers not using safety gear 100 percent of the time, or not using it correctly) and network operators pushing to build out and upgrade their networks too quickly. Hard to blame carriers for wanting to get faster networks up and running, but not at the cost of human life. (RCR is careful to note that the investigation into the rise in fatalities is too early to attribute to any specific source.)
Oddly, a loophole in OSHA rules may make it difficult for changes to happen quickly: Towers are often constructed by small contractors instead of the carriers or the owners of the towers. Since the carrier isn't on site during the construction of the tower, the contractor receives the fine and the carrier and owner face no sanctions. (That hasn't stopped the families of some of the deceased workers from suing carriers, though.)
Up next: Workers and their unions are hoping to push through federal legislation which could lead to more thorough regulations covering safety in this largely ignored industry.
Confounded by choice: A plethora of content makes online TV unnecessarily complicated to navigate - what's the best way to make sense of this jumble? »
30 June 2008
By Sean Hargrave
Even for a generation brought up on multi-channel TV such as that offered by Sky TV or Freeview, internet television can seem daunting. It is perhaps little wonder, then, that helping viewers navigate their way around this maze of new content is a priority for broadcasters and internet video services seeking to build a brand in the internet television market.
Web video search engine blinkx decided it would branch out from its beginnings as an online video search tool (sort of a Google for video) to offer a line-up of themed channels, including education and entertainment, in its new video service, BBTV, launched in May.
"The problem is there's just so much stuff out there and we're only human beings, there's only so much we can take in," says blinkx chief executive, Suranga Chandratillake. "The brands that are going to succeed will be those that act as a filter for all this new information, as well as allow people to search for content themselves."
"People watch TV in two ways. There are times when you want to watch something in particular, but most of the time people will come in from work and channel surf for five minutes. That's why it's going to be so important to be the brand that allows people to discover great content they weren't necessarily aware of through our own channel line-up - but always with the power of search behind it when people are looking for something in particular," says Chandratillake.
IPTV services such as BT Vision and Tiscali TV believe their "closed wall" systems give them an advantage over video on the open internet because they have more control over the viewer experience. For example, Orange plans to begin offering a set-top-delivered IPTV service to its broadband customers later this year and believes that the user interface and branding design will be a crucial differentiator.
"Orange is giving each part of its service unique animated characters that are designed to sum up what content is available on that part of the service," says Lucy Amortegui, head of digital media for Red Bee Media, which designed the onscreen look for Orange. "The idea is to give each section a personality."
Plain sailing
Jonathan Sykes, managing director of content strategy at Tiscali TV, says that good navigation is very important when there is such a wealth of content available. "We know that to succeed we have to make our managed service easy to use and fun."
"The beauty of an IPTV service is that we can segment content not just as you would normally expect like sports, movies, drama and so on," says Sykes. "We can also take the feedback from what people are watching and have charts of top 'feel-good movies' for example. It makes navigating the service so much simpler and it's a lot more fun than a conventional programme guide."
Online video aggregation services, such as Bablegum, are adding Facebook-like personalisation tools to attract users. Personalisation is also key at Zattoo, a web service which offers live streams from the UK's five terrestrial channels. Zattoo's latest version allows users to create a personal electronic programme guide (EPG), giving them a tool to drag and drop channels so they are in the order they prefer - channels they are not interested in can be deleted. The company believes users will respond well to a level of control conventional television does not offer.
John Gilles, vice-president of media and entertainment at digital agency Method, believes that people will soon realise the power of online television and how it should operate. "I think search is over-estimated, particularly in television," he says. "In real life people find out about shows from one another. We've helped Comcast produce its Fancast site where people can talk about shows to one another. It's going to be so important in the future of television. When there is so much content out there, people are going to be turned off by search, because they don't necessarily know what they're looking for, so they'll increasingly rely on recommendation."
This idea of a programme guide supplemented by communal recommendations is also at the heart of Sky's future plans, says Brian Lenz, Sky's head of product design. "The real question in finding your way around IPTV is: how do you make an informed choice? And we believe the brand that allows people to do this easily and has the best content will be the winner."
Sky already offers a recommendation service on its recently rebranded web television service, Sky Player. The technology works a lot like the Amazon recommendation engine, basing the new titles it recommends on a user's past viewing.
"We plan to link our set-top boxes to broadband, which will mean there will be scope for more community around programme watching," explains Lenz. "People can find out about great content from one another and select these shows directly, rather than going through a conventional EPG."
Sky is also developing "widgets" which users will be able to place on social networks, such as Bebo and Facebook, to say what they have been watching and what they plan to watch.