Posts Tagged with ‘yahoo!-video’

DivX, a growing video compression software company, has announced that it has signed a two-year deal with Yahoo! that replaces a previous similar agreement DivX had with Google, according to Tom Huntington, a spokesperson for DivX.
As the terms of the contract state, DivX software will now be offered with a co-branded Yahoo Toolbar and a version of IE7 pre-configured with Yahoo tools. Yahoo!, in exchange, will now provide links to DivX and its online video service, Stage6, within the [...]

WorldTV is another invitation only, alpha even, startup I have been testing for our readers over these last few days. The service allows users to select and view millions of online videos and to organize them into unique playlists. The idea is not revolutionary but the flash interposing of full screen video inside the user browser is. WorldTV has a look and feel that is unique and attractive. The service is perhaps one of the most interesting early phase startups we [...]

More news from video sharing services - this time about money. Today I got a scoop from a credible source in the financial industry that gofish.com has hired JMP Securities of San Francisco effectively to attempt to buy WeWin - the incentive based video sharing community. The source told me that WeWin's rewards program fills a void that exists in gofish's current platform. Details of the deal are sketchy, but the deal is reported to be between $15 to $25 million dollars. My source [...]

We recently reviewed a site called WeWin.com where users are rewarded for sharing and viewing video. We really like the site, with a few reservations, as the incentive based community is innovative and entertaining. In a press release by Market Wire - February 5, WeWin and Mondera announced a campaign that would award $5000 in gift certificates redeemable at Modera.com during the month of February. Mondera was voted “Best of the Web” by Forbes Magazine and is recognized for its quality gems [...]