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blinkx Wins Hitwise Top 10 Award, Named Industry Leader Among U.S. Web Sites »
29 October 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – October 29, 2008 – blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has been named a winner of Hitwise’s Top 10 Award for the quarter ending September 2008. During this period, www.blinkx.com ranked 7th Web site in the Hitwise Entertainment-Multimedia industry category.
Each quarter, Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, awards the 10 most popular Web sites in over 160 Hitwise categories. Top 10 Web site Awards are based on popularity according to the market share of user visits a Web site receives compared to other Web sites in their industry during a specific period. blinkx’s high traffic earned it a top spot on Hitwise’s list for Web sites of its kind.
“We’re excited to be recognized as a leader in our industry,” said Suranga Chandratillake, CEO and founder, blinkx. “We distinguish ourselves from the many video sites out there through smart technology and killer content, and we’re very pleased to be awarded for our efforts.”
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 Remote for Kids Offers Hours of Viewing for Children; Find Tom and Jerry, Chuckle Vision, Mr. Men and More
New site enables parents to find a wide variety of kids shows online with ease
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - October 28, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced the availability of a kid-friendly version of blinkx Remote, a free Web site for watching TV on the Internet. Parents now have easier access to full-length children's television shows online than ever before. From Bugs Bunny to Lazy Town, parents can access everything from current hits to classic favorites, all from one location.
Though there are countless hours of entertainment suitable for children available online, many parents are unaware it exists or unsure of where to find it. blinkx Remote for Kids solves these problems. The Web site aggregates information and access to tons of kid-friendly, full-length television programs across the Web, offering a one-stop-shop for high-quality children's entertainment. Parents can search for specific shows, browse by genre or network, or filter alphabetically. The breadth of its content makes blinkx Remote for Kids perfect for those parents who just can't bear to watch the same episode of Bob the Builder again, while its convenient, on-demand design makes it ideal for families unable to sync their busy lives up with the television schedule,
"We're thrilled to announce a family-friendly version of blinkx Remote," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. "blinkx Remote for Kids guarantees parents access to endless episodes of shows their kids will love, from Balamory to Fireman Sam, and more."
Leveraging blinkx's patented video search technology, blinkx Remote for Kids filters out video spam, illegal clips, and inappropriate material that has been falsely tagged, to deliver the highest quality user experience. Children and parents will find only full-length, legally available, episodes of their favorite TV programs through blinkx Remote for Kids, and will be able to sign up to receive alerts when a new show is posted through RSS or e-mail.
Visit blinkx Remote for Kids today at http://childrens-tv.blinkx.com/.
BLINKX plc
Interim Results and Conference Call - Monday 10 November 2008
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, California - October 27, 2008 - blinkx Plc (London AIM: BLNX), the largest video search engine on the Web, will announce interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2008 on Monday 10 November 2008.
A teleconference call to discuss these results will be hosted at 9.00am GMT on Monday 10 November 2008. The call will be available live via webcast over the World Wide Web. To access the live webcast, investors are directed towards the investor relations section of blinkx's website, www.blinkx.com. Investors should go to the website approximately 15 minutes prior to the start time of the call to register.
About blinkx
blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive 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.
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IDCC should do some shopping in this bad economy for a small company in cell mkt like finger print sensor or a touch screen cell phone tech stock.
Press Release Source: blinkx plc
blinkx Partners With Mr. Paparazzi to Bring Users the Latest Celebrity Scoops and Scandals
Tuesday October 21, 8:00 am ET
Get the Dirt at www.blinkx.com
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with Mr. Paparazzi (www.mrpaparazzi.com), the popular entertainment news and gossip site featuring Hollywood and U.K. celebrities. From footage of Eva Longoria’s latest shopping spree, to a video of Amy Winehouse singing in her garage, Mr. Paparazzi’s content provides an intimate, authentic look into the lives of everyone’s favorite celebrities, now more easily accessible than ever at www.blinkx.com. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage its AdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising against Mr. Paparazzi’s clips, and will share resulting advertising revenue with Mr. Paparazzi.
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Following the success of television show “Paparazzi,” celebrity picture agency Big Pictures launched Mr. Paparazzi, a Web site devoted to celebrity news, gossip and videos. Mr. Paparazzi offers access to up-to-the-minute celebrity images and videos, and pays viewers for their own celebrity snaps. Thousands of the site’s exclusive videos are now readily available at blinkx.
“Celebrity news and gossip have always been wildly popular on the Web,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “There is a seemingly insatiable need for this type of entertainment and our partnership with Mr. Paparazzi gives our worldwide audience instant access to the latest celebrity scoop.”
“We’re thrilled to partner with blinkx, the leader in online video search,” said Dan Barton, head of IT and Production, Mr. Paparazzi. “blinkx’s innovative technology allows us to share the best celebrity rumors, gossip and industry secrets with fans everywhere, immediately and easily.”
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.
About blinkx
blinkx plc (LSE AIM:BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive 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
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I bought idcc long ago at 12.99 and this is on topic and I wanted jimlurs comment on this matter it has been a long awaited battle on these court battles and on this market situation, I voted with most Americans in 2000 I voted for Al Gore (who really won) and not Bush so nothing to do with this bad economy is my fault.
I don't post much on IDCC unless I have questions and the broker who told me about idcc said to ask jimlur any questions that guy knows this stock backwards and forwards.
As far as posts for blinkx I just wanted more people to know about it as this small stock could be going places in 3-5 years(pure spec. trade on pinks) .
I am long on both IDCC and BLNKF and never sold any shares of either.
I am glad to be shareholder of both.
hopefully IDCC wins the lawsuits in a timely manner and they actuallly pay us some dividend money from the results like they should have in the past.IMO
I wish nothing but the best for IDCC and its holders and best to you as well good luck this market is scary and no place to hide in it.
jimlur I copied a post form google message brd and wanted your comments on it.
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Qualcomm was lucky to get Nokia to settle a few months ago, when
things weren't quite as bad as they are now.
But the world economy has gotten much worse since then, and credit is
too tight. Companies like Nokia and Samsung need to hold on to every
penny they have. They won't settle, not when they have fought so long
and hard. They will continue to delay. Samsung will roll the dice on
the ALJ's ruling, and even if it goes against them, they can still
appeal a few times. Nokia may still have a few legal tricks up their
sleeve. They know there are plenty of judges out there like Judge
Batts who can stall the ITC once again. Nokia and Samsung know that
the economic situation is dire, and they will not settle until IDCC
agrees to their rate.
All my opinion.
to all I have found a company I would like you all to look at..
Its called Blinkx.com its the # 1 video search engine with more video content than yahoo and google. (26 million hours of searchable content) .
The ceo of blinkx wants to be the google of video search,it has 111 pattens it has search tech that can use not only meta data but can listen to the video and even watch the video with it software to find even more..
Blinkx was rated the fastest growing video search engine in hits.
Blinkx has 39 million in the bank.
Blinkx expects to turn profit in 2010 maybe even late 09.
blinkx has 350 media partners .
blinkx powers some of the top leaders for video search including microsoft ask lycos and infospace.
blinkx ceo says his company is diffrent from that of youtube as they are a video host and that is quite costly he said that there will be room for both blinkx and youtube to make it.
Blinkx is currently trading at .36 cents
trades under the symbol BLNKF(also a message board on ihub you are welcome to join) in the pinks.
its web site is blinkx.com go to the bottom for more investor info.
it also has a web site for full length tv shows .
blinkx was spun off by a billion dollar company and is set to release earnings sometime in November .
its very volitle but a very exciting stock to own indeed.
please do your own dd if any questions ask me.
how about doing a topic on COLD GEAR for the winter and how ITKG could do heated gloves and heated stearing wheels for cars with global warming amoung us winters keep getting colder and colder .
please let me know what you think
TINY is very volitile in this hostile market as it makes money when their portfolio gets bought out or IPO's on the market place it looks as tho we shall not see that IMO for quite a while (I hope I am wrong)
the whole mkt is downward trend with no place to hide just myself looking for bargins but what i see as bargins continue to slide no idea where this slide ends .
Blinkx Plc - Grows Advertising Sales Team
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RNS Number : 1968F Blinkx Plc 07 October 2008
blinkx Grows Advertising Sales Team to Meet Growing Online TV Opportunity
New hires include seasoned professionals from Conde Nast, ITV and Yahoo
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - OCTOBER 7, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a number of new additions to its advertising sales team, to be based in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The team has expanded to further support new business development around the globe.
"We're thrilled to bring some of the industry's most experienced professionals on board," said Federico Grosso, senior vice president of business development, blinkx. "We're confident that our new colleagues will be enormous assets to our team and aid us in taking full advantage of the thriving online video advertising market."
Simon Voysey and Alexis James join blinkx as London's newest sales managers. Simon comes to blinkx from a number of U.K. media companies, including Channel 4 Television and Telegraph Media Group, where he managed all commercial aspects of the launch of Telegraph TV. Alexis most recently worked as UKTV's commercial development manager, where he managed the external sales team and oversaw site development, among other duties. Previous to UKTV, Alexis spent some time at ITV as part of the launch sales team working on ITV.com.
Franc Gomez joins blinkx as director of advertising sales with over twelve years of online and broadcast advertising sales experience, for brands such as the History Channel and National Geographic. Franc will be based out of New York, where he is joined by Jeffrey Eisenberg, new manager of advertising sales. Jeffrey's past roles include positions at Westwood One/Metro Networks, as well as at Hitwise.
Kristin Hiegel brings over ten years of online advertising sales experience to the team. Her most recent roles include positions at The Washington Post Company and Reader's Digest association. Kristin is joining blinkx as director of advertising sales and will be based in Los Angeles, California.
Finally, Julie Yovits, formerly strategic account director at Yahoo! and Midwest director at Conde Nast, comes to blinkx as director of advertising sales. Julie is stationed in Chicago, Illinois.
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.
BLINKX WITHDRAWS PROPOSAL TO ACQUIRE MIVA
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. * October 6, 2008 * blinkx plc (*blinkx*) (LSE AIM: BLNX) today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire MIVA, Inc. (*MIVA*) (NASDAQ:MIVA).
"Our goal in pursuing a combination of blinkx and MIVA would have been mutually beneficial to both companies' shareholders, employees, and customers. Our all-cash premium proposal was an attractive option for MIVA shareholders. It is unfortunate for MIVA shareholders, however, that despite our best efforts, MIVA's Board and management have not embraced our proposal to combine our companies," said Suranga Chandratillake, CEO and Founder of blinkx.
"The large premium blinkx offered in our initial proposal is even more significant today in light of MIVA's second quarter earnings miss, subsequent downward revision of annual guidance, and public disclosure related to restructuring of the Media EU business. By choosing not to engage in substantive discussions in any material respect and an agreement with blinkx, MIVA Board and management in our view have failed to give due consideration to a transaction that had a uniquely attractive opportunity for MIVA shareholders, particularly in light of several challenges MIVA faces in the near term."
blinkx is a disciplined buyer and will only pursue transactions that make sound financial sense for our shareholders. While the internet advertising industry remains an attractive, high-growth opportunity, there are considerable challenges and risks in the business for MIVA, including: risk and cost associated with the new technology platform, continuously deteriorating cash position, and continued deterioration in their Media business. We were committed to having a constructive dialogue and negotiation to conclude an agreement, but we did not find MIVA Board and management willing to cooperate.
We have a talented team in place and a compelling plan to grow our business through continued innovation and monetization of the blinkx technology. While MIVA would have accelerated our strategy, we have an exciting future ahead of us and will continue to focus on and progress toward our goals," said Chandratillake.
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.
One of the UK's latest and greatest exports is entrepreneur Suranga Chandratillake who, with his company blinkx, plans to be the Google equivalent of online video, says Andrew McCormick.
In the sunny California hills, a bit of British entrepreneurial spirit is thriving. The entrepreneur is 30-year-old Suranga Chandratillake, and his company, blinkx, aims to do for online video what Google has done for websites - make them easy to find, while making money through advertising. blinkx's ambitious plans have recently moved up a gear with a bid for paid-search outfit Miva, which would pit the Cambridge graduate and his colleagues against the US search giants.
"In terms of personality we're definitely British," says blinkx founder and chief executive Chandratillake. "We're the only Silicon Valley firm that has a box of PG Tips next to an over-used kettle."
Besides the odd trip to the vineyards and taking in a few gigs, a cup of tea is about the only time Chandratillake has had to relax since he set up blinkx in 2004. After gaining a degree in computer science, he furthered his tech expertise at software firm Autonomy, before turning his attention to helping people find video content on the web.
"Commercially, we're in a very important market," he says. "blinkx brings together all of the good things about TV, plus the accessibility of the internet. The big problem is navigation. People can put video up anywhere and anyone can watch it anywhere. From the seed of that problem, I formed blinkx."
Chandratillake's previous employers obviously have faith in his ability: Autonomy has a 9.9% stake in blinkx and sits alongside JP Morgan and HBOS as a top ten shareholder. After listing on London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market in August 2007, Chandratillake has been under pressure to satisfy the high expectations of the City.
"When we first listed it piled on the responsibility," he says. "I now have to take stock and explain everything to investors, but day to day I still work closely with the technology and product teams."
The latest from blinkx is an online remote control, which aims to make it easy to find TV content online. The tagline for blinkx's new development is 'Make your TV jealous'. It's not quite doing that yet though.
blinkx's future does not rest on the success of its latest launch. More important is AdHoc, its ad system that can identify the audio from videos people are watching and deliver relevant ads. Chandratillake is not more involved on the commercial side, though he says it hasn't come easy.
"The commercial side was something I knew less about," he says. "So we hired Federico Grosso, senior vice-president, business development from Yahoo!, and he has taught me a lot."
Chandratillake defines blinkx as a media company dependent on technology. Having personally developed the technology, he is now engineering the commercial charge. News reports speculating that Google and News Corp were preparing bids for blinkx have so far proved wide of the mark. But it surprised no one and provided a strong indicator that blinkx could be the next big British internet success story.
grant should ARAY buy private company intouch robot a video robot w/ camera for doctors to see patients in a diffrent way .
also grant are you voting to keep aray's BOD?
blinkx Partners with the Telegraph To Offer the Best in British News Coverage »
30 September 2008
blinkx index gets an international news boost with Telegraph TV’s quality clips
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 - blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with Telegraph Media Group (TMG). The Daily Telegraph is one of the U.K.’s best known newspapers, while it’s online property, Telegraph.co.uk (TCUK), is the fastest growing U.K. newspaper Web site year after year. TCUK is home to Telegraph TV, host of breaking news clips, original shows, and more. Videos cover a wide variety of topics of interest, from news and business analysis to the latest in arts and entertainment, along with a whole range of original weekly shows.
A wide range of Telegraph TV content, ranging from gadget reviews to behind-the-scenes fashion show footage, is now easily accessible at www.blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with TMG.
“We’re delighted to partner with a news organization with the prestige and reputation for quality that the Telegraph embodies,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “News searches are among the most popular on our site, and we’re constantly improving our audience experience by adding high-quality, diverse coverage of current affairs to our index.”
“We believe our content is up there with the best on the Web, and we want to make sure that it reaches as many people as possible,” said Mike Moore, General Manager – Digital, TMG. “So we’re pleased to be working with blinkx, a company that has developed an innovative way for us to make Telegraph TV available to more people worldwide.”
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.
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 Telegraph Media Group
Telegraph Media Group Limited publishes The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Telegraph.co.uk and The Weekly Telegraph. This is a wholly owned subsidiary of Press Holdings Limited.
jimlur
the new google phone video can be found here (link below) and it looks to challange iphone looks very impressive to me.
http://www.blinkx.com/video/iphone-rival-g1-debuts/LeQ0RWRuLOt5lqpX0bcn1g
from another board and his vtake on blinkx meeting today.
My take on the Blinkx AGM this am
Of the 10/11 present, 2 were auditors there was the CEO; the Company secretary; a representative from the Autonomy interests and 2 young ladies who may have been Autonomy employees attending. That was about it. There was one other small shareholder and our total holding came out at about 120k.
The meeting was brief and no hanging about. The CEO spoke for about a minute and basically said that the company was showing a strong performance; it was now the fastest growing video search engine in the US and the UK and he was very optimistic regarding the future. When the Company Secretary went through the resolutions the CEO was asked re the funds for acquisitions was specifically targeted at Miva and he said it was to give them overall flexibility if an appropriate situation arose. He said the same in relation to the buyback of shares but did not give a price at which they would activate that strategy.
The meeting lasted about 10 minutes.
He then stayed behind for informal questions and we had about an hour with him-the 2 of us! Everything I am now saying reflect my own assessment and conclusions. The first thing to say is that the results will be released between the end of October and the middle of November and he provided no specifics. They provided us with their marketing document which was produced in March and the figures in there have clearly moved on. The document itself is most impressive-professional; informative and being used as part of their marketing push. Looking at the CEO’s report at the end of the financial year I will use his highlights from that and comment further
• The company is ahead of plan in its move towards profitability. The brokers have indicated that they expect this to still be reached in 2010 but earlier than previously stated. He is comfortable with that assessment
• Content hours have grown over the 26m already stated. They have appointed more engineers recently.
• The daily video search run rate has increased from over the 5m per day quoted in March. The number of hits is relevant when they come to meet with marketing agencies and enhances their credibility
• Again-increase in unique visitors and page views
• Increase in media partners. He made the point that they are marketing to content providers who they regard as being the major players in their particular fields while at the same time accepting other players who approach them. By having the unique search facility and quality content, that again gives them credibility with the marketing agencies. With the world economy in trouble the agencies are looking for the most cost effective mechanism to market their products and the growth of broadband means that consumers-especially young ones-are using the internet as their source rather than the traditional TV. The key point is that the advertising is very focused to that individual in relation to the material he/she is searching. The difficulties ITV are facing reflect that imo.
To answer several other questions the discussion boards are asking.
The Miva takeover. He indicated that it was still on the cards but not essential but it would speed up their expansion. He held by the price offered and I wonder if he was even considering whether they might get it cheaper in the current environment. The new CFO may have a view on that –again imo. He also said that they were open to other acquisition options in view of their strong cash position. Someone had asked if he knew about Podcast wizard-he did and said that early promise in this area had not been fulfilled and that radio was still many people’s mainstay. They already have a partnership with a company called Podshow-which has recently changed its name ?Evio I think.
Whether or not they get Miva he regarded a NASDAQ listing as not being important and they are not considering it currently.
They are very pleased with the response of the new “Remote “ facility. He described this as b
BBTV in the Browser Fuses a High-Quality TV Experience with the Interactive Power of the Web, without Software Download
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today launched an evolution of its broadband television offering: blinkx BBTV will now be available without download, straight from your browser. Leveraging blinkx’s patented speech and visual recognition technology, BBTV simultaneously delivers a high-quality television experience over the Internet, and links it to the universe of information on the Web, adding dimension and context to the viewer’s experience. Now, BBTV is available in the browser, without any software download, integrating video into the fiber of the Web for true, full-screen Online Television. To try blinkx BBTV direct from your browser, visit http://www.blinkx.com/channelbrowser?quality=bbtv.
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The Web is the largest repository of connected information in the world - on any subject and from myriad sources. BBTV delivers television over the Internet, but it also fuses that TV with the wealth of information on the Web, rather than appearing as just another layer floating above it.
As with the previous version of BBTV, the new Web-based release enables users to instantly and easily browse or interact with online sources related to the program they are watching straight from their browser, whether it’s Google, Wikipedia, IMDB or other Web sites offering relevant information – from news and entertainment, to travel and sports.
“Delivering a Web-based version of blinkx BBTV was a natural evolution for us,” said Suranga Chandratillake, CEO and founder of blinkx. “Advances in streaming technology and the pervasiveness of broadband have made software downloads an unnecessary obstacle for audiences. We’re delighted to be able to now offer users our ground-breaking online television product directly through their browser.”
Delivering the same unique functionalities as the downloadable version, BBTV in the browser enables an unprecedented level of interaction with online television. blinkx’s patented video indexing automatically creates a speech track of content within the video, making it easy for viewers to navigate literally word-for-word and jump to specific points in a program, simply by searching for a spoken word or name. While watching programs or movies on blinkx BBTV, viewers can instantly access features never before possible, including transcripts of the audio track and background information on everything from actors and personalities, to reviews and locations shown within the video. Alternatively, users can opt to sit back and watch the video full-screen, on-demand and in TV quality.
In coming months, blinkx will be adding dozens of additional channels and premium video content to the Web-based BBTV offering. BBTV is fully compatible with blinkx AdHoc, blinkx’s contextual advertising platform.
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 and visual recognition technologies to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.
blinkx Expands Management Team, Appoints Jonathan Spira as Chief Financial Officer
Wednesday September 17, 8:00 am ET
Technology Industry Veteran Brings 20 Years of Experience to Fastest Growing Video Search Engine
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced that Jonathan Spira will join the blinkx executive management team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), commencing September 29th, 2008. Spira joins blinkx at a time when the company is experiencing rapid expansion in its partner and user-base: last week blinkx announced that it is the fastest growing video site among visitors in the U.S.1 and the U.K.2
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Spira will assume financial duties currently managed by Matthew Service, who has served as both CFO and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at blinkx since 2006. Matthew Service will continue in the role of COO.
“Jonathan’s impressive industry experience, financial background, and track record with rapid-growth companies – as well as some of the top brands in the world – make him an excellent fit for our team,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. “We are delighted that blinkx’s continued success has enabled us to expand our executive management team, and we look forward to leveraging his unique insight and expertise as blinkx continues its rapid growth trajectory.”
Spira has extensive experience in both the media and technology industries. He joins blinkx from J.Phineas International, a business consultancy company he founded that offers advisory services in specialty areas, including Strategic and Business Planning, Capitalization and Fundraising, Board and Investor Relations, and High Growth Operations. Spira has been building and managing companies in the technology and consumer industry for 20 years, helping enterprise software, wireless communications, on-demand, and consumer-product companies grow dramatically and profitably, while building significant value for investors.
Prior to founding J.Phineas International, Spira served as Chief Financial Officer at a number of private and public companies, including: Kapow Technologies, a Web 2.0 start-up; Packethop, a wireless networking company; Atrenta, a developer of Electronic Design Automation applications; ePeople, a developer of Web-based customer relationship management solutions; and Autonomy Corporation plc, where Jonathan spearheaded a successful $50 million IPO in 1998. Spira has also held senior finance and planning positions at Walt Disney Co., PepsiCo Inc. and Nestlé Food Company, and worked as a consultant in Peat Marwick’s Merger & Acquisition practice. He holds a Masters in Business Administration from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Kenyon College.
its cause oil companies are a bunch of criminals
blinkx could be a hidden gem ..
Blinkx # 1 video search engine with 26 million hours of content
found this funny video from SNL
If you go to youtube it will not be allowed to play due to copyrights from NBC .
Blinkx symbol BLNKF.pk here is the link very funny vid too.
http://www.blinkx.com/video/snl-palin-clinton-show-intro/zn--_j2oKiVbuJAXuU7Ywg
blinkx could be a hidden gem ..
Blinkx # 1 video search engine with 26 million hours of content
found this funny video from SNL
If you go to youtube it will not be allowed to play due to copyrights from NBC .
Blinkx symbol BLNKF.pk here is the link very funny vid too.
http://www.blinkx.com/video/snl-palin-clinton-show-intro/zn--_j2oKiVbuJAXuU7Ywg
blinkx could be a hidden gem ..
Blinkx # 1 video search engine with 26 million hours of content
found this funny video from SNL
If you go to youtube it will not be allowed to play due to copyrights from NBC .
Blinkx symbol BLNKF.pk here is the link very funny vid too.
http://www.blinkx.com/video/snl-palin-clinton-show-intro/zn--_j2oKiVbuJAXuU7Ywg
New Overview of Rapid Response Emergency Communications Systems pdf file posted to www.plfm.net
Accuray Incorporated Announces Resignation of Chief Financial Officer
Last Update: 9/11/2008 4:00:00 PM
Accuray Incorporated Announces Resignation of Chief Financial Officer
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept 11, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Accuray Incorporated (ARAY), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that Robert E. McNamara has resigned as chief financial officer and senior vice president to pursue other interests. Holly Grey, Accuray's senior vice president of finance since March 2008, has been appointed to serve as senior vice president of finance and interim principle financial officer until a successor is found.
"Robert McNamara has been a valuable member of our management team," said Euan S. Thomson, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer. "We appreciate the contributions he has made during his tenure at Accuray and wish him the best in his future endeavors."
Grant your thoughts on this please..
from another board (copied)
I'm a contrarian & also
like to make my own mind up about things.
First off, JP Morgan is not neutral,
as they own a signifcant holding in blinkx.
However they may be accurate.
MIVA was/is already in partnership with blinkx, and an unsoliticted offer just means MIVA didn't invite an offer to take it over. In my view blinkx & MIVA would have known about the offer in advance and must have been ..and was to the advantage of both companies to do, and to MIVA to refuse.
It put value on both companies, giving blinkx better standing, and MIVA's share price rose immediately.
Secondly, blinkx could have gone ahead with a takeover. In a time with impossible credit for small companies, blinkx is cash rich.
Blinkx gain would be mainly a NASDAQ listing without incurring the huge fees for that.
It would have been a smart move.
The customer base of MIVA would have been useful but blinkx is not a pay per click company and to move into that would have been very difficult in my view.
It does however show a maturity in blinkx who has begun playing business politics and on that basis I bought blinkx.
Despite what we idealists think about business, it is the hardest poker game in town, with some bosses ending up in jail as their schemes sailed to clse to the wind and they wee caught with their trousers down and hand in the till like ENRON.
Many get away with things because they work, which had they backfired would have caused them being prosecuted.
If you think that is cynical look at many famous corporate names, including microsoft, and see how often they are in court, and also how much they have to pay out in billions.
Business is extreme sport as well as just production.
The question for me is, is blinkx strong enough to play at the world table?
At present it is an unknown and the big fish are not stalking it, despite rumours made up by journalists who have vested interests in running with them as they get paid for them.
But as blinkx publishes profits....... expected in 2010 but thought by some to be possible by May 2009 or even 29th October this year when their intrim report may be published...... it will draw the attention of city analysts and consequently many investors.
it will therefore also draw the attention of predators.
In fact 2 of the biggest US investment houses William Blair and JPMorgan are already onboard blinkx, who together with Mike Lynch & Autonomy and the remarkably prophetic Fidelity who has become billionaire from small mllionaire by correctly guessing emerging tech shares, own 60-70% of blinkx shares.
That is a massive amount of bluechip investments in an AIM, but it also makes buying large amounts of shares impossible without dramtically pushing the sp up.
The shares on projected revenues should hit £5-£15 by 2011 by my calculations from trends on growth and revenue per hits, which if confirmed in their first profits figures will make a scramble for the presently unknown blinkx certain.
I'm bias and in technology, and only playing for interest, but I have enough knowledge of blinkx, its operations and its markets and competition to assess it accurately as a hobby-ist!
I expect a price rise to the October report and if figures confirm profits or near breakeven there will be a scramble for shares and analysts will sgart covering it. (They cant at present as it is not proven according to their protocols, and if they tip shares that fail they lose clients. they have to tipo share s that are demonstrably succeeding to cover themselves. This mean great bargains are not to be had by listening to paid analysts)
Blinkx Plc - Blinkx is fastest growing video site
RNS
RNS Number : 9674C Blinkx Plc 09 September 2008
blinkx.com is fastest growing video site in U.S. and U.K.
World's Largest Index of TV, Video and Movies Online Continues to Gain Users - Traffic Growing Faster than Any Top 20 Video Site
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - September 9, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it is the fastest growing video site in the U.S., and also one of the fastest growing online sites in the U.K., as users continue to turn to blinkx to find video content ranging from premium high definition movies and sports, to breaking news and top quality niche content.
According to findings just issued by Compete.com, blinkx is the fastest growing video site among the top 20 video competitors in the U.S. Its traffic grew by 1,036% between July 2007 and July 2008, boosting blinkx to 16th place among the top 20 video sites.
In another recent report, Neilsen Online listed blinkx.com as the ninth fastest growing site in the U.K. as its traffic soared 681% between June 2007 and July 2008. The report noted: "Video is one of the fastest-growing sectors and blinkx is allowing viewers to search across millions of hours of professional and consumer-generated video. The site also taps further into the social media phenomenon by enabling viewers to build customized video walls for their blogs or MySpace pages."
"As more and more television, movies and other video content is available online - tens of millions of hours and counting - we have noticed a sharp increase in visitors who are looking for their favorite show or a recent news clip - whether it's an well-loved sitcom, an Olympic moment or the latest U.S. convention speech," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. "It's clear that there will continue to be great demand for our technology among users, advertisers and content owners who want to take full advantage of the exploding video Web."
As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the most effective 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.
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.
I have a question I am trying to see if IDCC would make money on the new google phone.
In Jan 2007 google announced Samsung would be producing the google phone does this mean more revenue for IDCC or does Samsung no longer do business with IDCC?
any help is welcomed here thanks in advance.
Blinkx is better off on its own ..
Nasdaq listing is where the money is and blinkx will turn profit soon enuff IMO and will attract investors all around the world .
I am voting no thanks to any buyout offer less than 500$ per share .
Ceo of google stated "the future of the internet is not google the future is video" thats why they bought youtube and why blinkx is the future .com household name and I invision it being used in every home on the internet and ont heir tv sets at home as well.
Back in July 2007 The Telegraph made the following statement in its share tips section:
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Blinkx and you’ll miss it
Blinkx is a search engine for videos, spun off from Cambridge-based software group Autonomy at the end of May.
The key to the company is its technology. It has developed speech and image recognition software that scans the video clips watched by its users to target them with relevant advertising, and takes a share of the ad revenues from sites it drives traffic to.
Although Google does similar things with text, it has nothing to match the Blinkx speech and image technology.
Autonomy claims it would have netted tens of millions had it simply sold the intellectual property to another search engine. Autonomy retains 10 per cent of Blinkx, while founder Michael Lynch has 9 per cent. Other major investors include Fidelity, Schroders and Legal & General.
Blinkx is trading at a loss, but analysts believe revenues will grow from $4.4m (£2.2m) next year to over $60m by 2010, when the first profit is forecast. It recently struck a deal with RealNetworks, whose software is downloaded to 1.5m computers each day.
Blinkx is a one-trick pony. Its technology will either be a huge success or a dismal failure. But the early signs are encouraging.
The shares made their debut at 45p, peaked at 65p, but have since drifted below the issue price to 43.5p. For the brave investor, keen to take a punt on what could be the next big thing, Blinkx is worth a look.
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If you want to read the whole article you can find it at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/07/01/cxequity101.xml
However, the interesting point in the above is the statement : "revenues will grow from $4.4m (£2.2m) next year to over $60m by 2010, when the first profit is forecast."
Well, we know that revenues up to March of this year have already exceeded $4.4m by 50% so Blinkx is already well ahead of schedule. If it can continue at that rate what is there to stop it achieving the $60m by 2009 instead of 2010?
Things are looking good.
stormin (takes too long to type in your whole name) have you gone on to the site you referenced at http://www.quantcast.com/blinkx.com and clicked on the 216 number?
When you do it brings up the full list, top down, of all the sites starting with Google. That way you not only get the rating but you also know who is ahead and the ones you reckon Blinkx will pass in the next year or so.
Makes very interesting reading.
BLINKX SETS DATE FOR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Cambridge, England - 28 August 2008 - blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX.), the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, announces that its Annual General Meeting will take place on 23 September 2008 at 9.30am (London time). The meeting will take place at blinkx's headquarters in Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WZ.
All shareholders not planning to attend the meeting in person are urged to send instructions for the voting of their shares so that they are represented at the meeting. Please contact your financial intermediary for the procedure to follow.
Copies of blinkx's Notice of Annual General Meeting, Form of Proxy and Directors' and Auditors' Reports and the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2008 were recently mailed to shareholders, and may also be obtained directly from blinkx as well as from your financial intermediary. blinkx's annual report for the year ended 31 March 2008 will also be available on blinkx's web site located at http://www.blinkx.com/investors.
About blinkx plc
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.
This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
Blinkx reports earnings every 6 mths it is expected to report earnings around late oct early nov.
when does blinkx expect to be profitable well at first it was supposed to be 2010 .But now the ceo of blinkx says that it is above that target and could be profitable sometime in 2009.
Alot of exciting things are happening for blinkx
1. hits are increasing to its web site.
2. it launched a new web site to watch full length tv shows tv.blinkx.com
3.signed a deal with microsoft in the uk to power thier video search.
4. tried to buy a Nasdaq listed company afew weeks ago called miva and offer got rejected but not sure if blinkx may be in talks again with them not sure.
I am very long term on blinkx this one guy on another board says his price target for blinkx is $2-$4 by years end and $10 to $30 by 2011 .
When Eric Schmit ceo of google bought youtube he said "The future of the internet is not google the future is video."
Ceo of blinkx Suranga Chandrataitlake says his goal is to be the google of video search .
He has also stated in a tech confrance where youtube founder was at there is room for both youtube which hosts video clips and blinkx is a video search .
blinkx is also partnered with youtube .
message from sobeit
Is this what you want?
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-earnings-blinkx-losses-down-revenue-down-hits-expectations
This says 56.1m unique viewers and 584m page views in March. And we know it has gone from strength to strength since then.
Given that Blinkx can get $60CPM but let's be conservative and say $20CPM that should translate itself into a lot of money even if you share it 50/50 giving a $10CPM. On a monthly basis that equates to $6m.
If you extrapolate that over the last six months, the revenue for that period should come in at around $36m so let's be even more cautious and say 50% of it hasn't come in yet even though it is earned but is in the pipeline. That gives a conservative revenue figure of $18m for the six months to the end of September. But let's be even more cautious and say it only gets 50% of that giving a figure of $9m.
Now how does that stack up? Well, it did $3.5m in the 6 months ending in March 2008. If it comes in with anything approaching even $9m this share is going to go through the roof.
message from citytrade on another message board-it just keeps coming.
there is much more to this deal than there seems.
Getty is to be sold (see wiki entry below) for $2.4 billion.
RNS Number : 0684C
Further to your posts on this:
Blinkx Plc
27 August 2008
blinkx Partners With Getty Images to Offer Users the Best in Editorial Multimedia
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - August 27, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with Getty Images (www.gettyimages.com), the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media. From entertainment capsules to sporting recaps to the upcoming Democratic and Republican Convention feeds in the United States, Getty Images' content is now more easily accessible than ever at www.blinkx.com. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage its AdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising against Getty Images' multimedia, and will share resulting advertising revenue with Getty Images.
"We're delighted to partner with Getty Images, a company that is considered the gold standard in its industry," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "Our viewers will enjoy Getty's diverse range of high quality content. In addition, with Election Day approaching in the States, our American audiences will particularly appreciate Getty's up-to-the-minute Democratic and Republican National Convention feeds on blinkx.com."
"We believe our assets deserve wide exposure, and we're always looking for innovative ways to make our digital content easily accessible," said Josh Rucci, senior director of multimedia sales, Getty Images. "We're pleased to partner with blinkx, whose technology enables us to expand our reach further than ever before."
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Getty is pretty big:
"an archive of 70 million still images and illustrations and more than 30,000 hours of stock film footage"
etc
wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Images
Apart from handling the biggest media base, blinkx is aiming at exposure through deals, infrastructure contracts and advertising share fro long term with specialist providers.
I value blinkx now at about £2.50 or $5- in a depressed market and while it is still AIM and only covered by one analyst outside citibank.
I also think blinkx is pretty easy to value which is hits X revenue multiple less debts+ costs.
in a sector that has viral growth (faster than exponential) blinkx is outgrowing and outperforming everyone else.
It looks like Google is concentrating on text search which it is good at.
I'm still looking at £5-£15 a share in 2-3 years (2011) as advertising is the way to go for both TV and internet revenues, as sites moves increasingly away from subscription fees.
IDOL is licenced to blinkx until 2012.
That means blinkx HAS to make huge profits fast, and/or recontract research and develop its own software systems.
I dont think we should worry about market makers with blinkx...about 100 trades a day can go through, few over £25,000 which is peanuts to when it will be on the formal markets.
Autonomy is likely to enter the FTSE top 100 next month and draw blinkx to the attention of analysts.
Although we see blinkx everywhere it is pretty unnoticed by most investors.
Getty's deal will alert loads of corporations and 'thought leaders' as the yanks call them, to blinkx.
It would be neat if blinkx diversified without running into the combinatorial explotion, eg doing their own browser in a deal with firefox
Good luck to everyone for the October bull to the intrims, which should be starting shortly!
citytrade
blinkx Named "Star Performer" by Speech Technology Magazine
Tuesday August 26, 2:00 am ET
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has been named a winner of Speech Technology magazine’s 2008 Speech Industry Awards in the “Star Performers” category. Awards are presented to individuals and companies for extraordinary efforts made to increase benefits, acceptance and adoption of speech technologies and for outstanding accomplishments in bringing new products and services to the marketplace. The awards were presented recently at the 14th Annual SpeechTEK Conference and Exposition in New York City.
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“Recipients of the Speech Technology magazine's Speech Industry Awards are recognized for accomplishments that stand out from the crowd,” says David Myron, editorial director of Speech Technology magazine. “They have distinguished themselves through their individual accomplishments, service to the industry and the implementation of truly innovative new applications using speech technology.”
“We are honored to receive Speech Technology magazine’s Star Performer Award,” said Suranga Chandratillake, CEO and founder, blinkx. “Our patented speech recognition technology is a core component of our video search offering, which has enabled us to index more than 26 million hours of online television and video. Our technology understands video better than any other service available today, and we’re pleased to be awarded for our efforts.”
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.
ITKG needs to communicate with its investors even tho we are in a tough economy ...
ITKG needs to answer the questions to its investors durring our quiet period,,,
1. What are ITKG's goals and have they changed at all?
2.What are the independent results on electriplast and what took so long?
3.When will itkg start producing its product ?
4.when will ITKG be profitible?
5.Have the ceo set goals for itkg and list them on the web site have seperate goals for each qtr.
I am not all negitive about itkg i am still holding but i am upset with the lack of communication and its share price and its almost year end and still nothing .
its still debt free but some contract money would be nice....
Google's speech-to-text technology is huge search advance
By MIKE WENDLAND | Detroit Free Press • Published August 20, 2008
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This is huge: A new speech-to-text technology from Google in which you type in a word or a phrase and it searches through YouTube videos to find all the instances where someone said it.
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Right now, it's being used on YouTube's You Choose video page (youtube.com/youchoose) and applied to all of John McCain and Barack Obama's YouTube videos, both those produced by their campaigns and by everyday folk. Look on the lower left hand side of the page in the search box and type in whatever you want to hear them talk about, be it global warming, the surge in Iraq, abortion, gay rights, whatever.
If you want to see a transcription, as the video plays, put the cursor on the timeline and you can read along, too.
For now, this new technology is being used only for political videos. But you can be sure it will expand. And you get snippets, not necessarily the entire clip or soundbite, so getting full context can become an issue. But you can easily identify the event or video and then search on it and then watch it in its entirety.
Google does all this through automated spiders, Web-crawling tools that are able to process and transcribe words, which are then embedded as metadata into the video itself.
That metadata - information that describes the context, content and structure of files and documents - can be indexed and searched, just as text.
Google calls it the Elections Video Search Gadget.
"Using the gadget you can search not only the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken content. Additionally, since speech recognition tells us exactly when words are spoken in the video, you can jump right to the most relevant parts of the videos you find," according to a post on the official Google blog.
Google researchers concede that some of the transcribed parts of the gadget "may not be 100% accurate." But by quickly bringing up the actual words and video segments, users can follow along and fill in any missing blanks.
Google may be the biggest outfit out of the box with this, but two smaller but very competitive rivals, Blinkx and EveryZing also use speech-to-text technologies to make video content easier to search and watch.
And Adobe is also deep into this technology, close to providing similar speech-to-text search capabilities for its Flash, one of the most popular options for displaying Internet videos.
All these rushed and improved technological search advances come as the Web becomes more and more of a distribution center for video.
Online video advertising is booming and expected to grow from $500 million now to $4.3 billion a year by 2011, according to the eMarketer research firm and U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
Highlights:
• Financial results: revenues and results for Half ending March 2008 from operations in line with
analyst expectations.
• Company ahead of plan in move towards profitability
• Content hours more than tripled since IPO, from 7 million to 26 million
• Daily Video Search run rate of over 5,000,000 per day in March 2008
• 56.1 million unique visitors and 584 million page views through the blinkx network in March
2008 (source: comScore)
• 175% growth in content partner base to over 350 media organizations, including BBC iPlayer,
CBS, Channel 5, The Guardian and The Weather Channel
• Addition of top-tier syndication partners, including Ask.com, Real Networks, and Infospace
• Introduction of four new strategic technology offerings:
o blinkx BBTV
o blinkx beat
2
o blinkx AdHoc
o Native language search
• Successful execution of campaigns for leading advertising agencies including OMD, MediaCom,
Universal McCann and Initiative Media.
• Collaboration with media futures unit of Publicis Groupe, S.A. on higher-performance videobased
advertising format
• Key hires in Sales and R&D to drive growth
source:
http://cdn-99.blinkx.com/store/images/docs/blinkx_FY08_Results_15.04.08.2.pdf
Blinkx got 1/2 billion page views in March.
That converts to advertising hits pretty predictably & is why I forecast £5-£15 in 2-3 years (by 2011).
There will be hard revenue figures in next May but you can work them out yourselves from hits/revenues less expenses.
Blinkx has been cited as one of the 'Companies that Will Change the World” (Business 2.0)
Everything in the market is pretty cheap apart from Autonomy which has gone over £11- as I forecast
The dollar is rising and recovery is coming: I expect signs of that in November because I think the reason there was a downturn was over speculation by banks in property loans coupled to oil rises.
Here is the letter from blinkx to miva for the 1.20 bid that got rejected first day.....
Online video search engine blinkx has sent a letter to digital advertising company MIVA, seeking to acquire it for $1.20 per share. Yesterday's closing price for MIVA stock, which trades on the NASDAQ, was $0.78.
MIVA has certainly had its share of trouble of recent years. The company has gone through reorganizations and a management shakeup in the hopes of stabilizing the business, which includes a pay-per-click offering.
Here's the full text of the letter for your consumption.
August 8, 2008
MIVA, Inc.
5220 Summerlin Commons Boulevard
Suite 500
Fort Myers, FL 33907
Attention: Peter Corrao, CEO
Larry Weber, Chairman
Members of the Board of Directors
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Re: blinkx and MIVA Combination
I am writing on behalf of the board of directors of blinkx Plc to make a proposal for the business combination of blinkx and MIVA. Under our proposal, blinkx would acquire all of the outstanding shares of MIVA common stock for $1.20 in cash per share. Our proposal is not subject to any financing condition. The transaction would be funded from existing cash resources of the two companies.
Proposal. Our proposal represents a 54.0% premium above the closing price of MIVA common stock of $0.78 on August 7, 2008, and a 36% premium over the average closing price for the one month prior to August 7, 2008.
By whatever financial measure one might use, we believe this proposal represents a compelling value realization opportunity for your shareholders and the quickest and most secure way to see such value, particularly given the several challenges MIVA faces in the near term, including: risk and cost associated with the new technology platform, a deteriorating cash position, continued deterioration of the Media EU business and continued decline in revenue and profitability.
We believe that MIVA's shareholders would not be well-served by any delay in negotiating or completing the merger process, and that time and/or another round of restructuring plans will not significantly increase MIVA's valuation.
Background. Having worked together for a number of years you will be aware that blinkx is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Founded in 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake, the company completed a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) in May 2007 and currently has a market capitalization of approximately $160 million, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA and the UK. With an index of over 26 million hours of searchable video and more than 350 media partnerships, including national broadcasters, commercial media giants, and private video libraries, blinkx has cemented its position as the premier destination for online TV. blinkx pioneered video search on the Internet, enhanced by $150 million in R&D over 12 years, and is now protected by 111 patents.
Rationale. blinkx believes that a combination of the two companies would be mutually beneficial to both companies' shareholders, employees, and customers. blinkx and MIVA have complementary businesses that could benefit greatly from blinkx's technology and MIVA's distribution network.
blinkx has worked with MIVA as a customer and partner for a number of years and has a great deal of respect for MIVA's success in building a global keyword advertising network and growing the MIVA Direct consumer offering. We believe, however, that with the Internet's continued progression towards rich media and newer forms of advertising, more advanced technology will play a fundamental role in achieving success.
blinkx already has in place a proven and growing video-driven revenue engine, and enjoys an unrivalled technology portfolio which is applicable across many aspects of the online market. A combination of the two companies - fusing MIVA's advertising network with blinkx's ability to leverage its technology portfolio into the online market - presents an exciting and compelling opportunity.
Specifically, blinkx's advanced and scalable matching technology will enable immediate platform improvements for MIVA. As a result large portions of relevant search traffic from MIVA's search ad network will be monetizeable at higher rates through blinkx's technology. Furthermore blinkx's technology holds the potential to build on MIVA's existing toolbar network, adding the latest functionality and an entirely new revenue stream. Finally, MIVA's consumer sites and portals, that already attract large audiences, will immediately benefit from blinkx's advanced video technology and AdHoc advertising platform.
Process and Employees. We would value the opportunity to further discuss with you how to optimize the integration of our respective businesses to create a leading global technology company. We believe that the management and employees of MIVA are critical to realizing a successful transition and foresee an important and central role for MIVA employees in the combined company.
Any acquisition of MIVA would be subject to the opportunity to conduct a limited confirmatory due diligence investigation, the negotiation of a definitive merger agreement containing customary terms and conditions, including customary conditions to closing; no material adverse change to MIVA's business; appropriate shareholder approvals; and any regulatory requirements. Given our participation in the industry and MIVA's public status, we envisage an efficient due diligence process appropriate to a public company. We are prepared to deliver a draft merger agreement to you and begin discussions immediately.
Due to the importance of these discussions and the value represented by our proposal, we expect the MIVA Board to engage in a full review of our proposal and discussion of its contents with MIVA's shareholders. We are prepared to meet at a time and location of your convenience to complete due diligence and commence definite agreement negotiations.
We believe this proposal represents a unique opportunity for MIVA's shareholders to realize value, and the combined company will be well positioned for future growth. We hope that you and your Board share our enthusiasm, and we look forward to a prompt and favourable reply.
Yours sincerely,
Suranga Chandratillake
CEO and Founder