“Adobe System’s longtime chief technology officer Kevin Lynch, who once criticized Apple CEO Steve Jobs for failing to support Adobe’s Flash technology in the iPhone, is leaving the software maker to join Apple as a vice president of technology.”
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LG’s first TVs running webOS will launch in early 2014, possibly at CES. That’s the word from our sources, and loosely confirmed by LG VP of communications John Taylor, who said webOS is in “fast…
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“There’s been a lot of talk about the second-screen experience,” says Google product VP Mario Queiroz, referring to the devices viewers turn to while watching TV. “We haven’t implemented a second-screen experience just to be able to say we’ve done it. When does it make sense for a [Google TV] user to have his or her tablet, or phone, or computer?”
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Video-sharing site DailyMotion has pacted with Yahoo on a syndication deal for video, says Daniel Adams, VP International Content at Dailymotion, during the recent Beet.TV Global Video Summit at the BBC Worldwide.
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“PARIS–Netflix Tuesday added some fuel to its original content engine, naming Cindy Holland its VP of original content.
Starting next month, I’ll begin a new journey as an analyst with Parks Associates…”
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“Success — in traffic numbers and ad sales — could make NBC Sports the poster child for the promise of digital viewing.
‘It will be the biggest digital event that this country has ever seen,’ said Rick Cordella, VP-general manager of NBC Sports and Olympics Digital.”
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“The following is a guest post from Michael Beckner, VP Development at Veenome, a cloud-based platform that turns video into data.
What happens when the tags of trending videos are copied & appended to, shall we say, more suggestive content? You get the latest trend in spam — thank you, Reply Girls! — that invades categories, sends users packing, drives down ad dollars and casts your service in an unkind (and very public) light. Just ask any video platform.”
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“WeVideo announced it has raised a $19.2 million Series A round led by Crest Capital Ventures. Last week I interviewed WeVideo’s VP of Product, John Canning, at the NABShow, who explained what’s so special about its cloud-based, in-browser, collaborative video editing platform. John shares more about whom WeVideo competes with in both the consumer and the enterprise markets. WeVideo also announced an integration with the new Google Drive storage service, showing once again how powerful cloud computing has become.”
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“Palo Alto-based video encoding start-up EyeIOleft stealth mode Wednesday with the announcement that it has licensed its technology to one of the biggest players in the online video space. Netflix is using eyeIO’s encoding technology to cut down on the bandwidth of its streams, allowing the company to deliver HD video without busting subscribers’ bandwidth caps or overwhelming networks in emerging markets.
EyeIO has been operating stealthily since the end of 2010, and was able to win Netflix as a customer last summer. Netflix hasn’t said where and in which capacity it is exactly using the technology it has been licensing from eyeIO, but the company’s VP of Product Development Greg Peters said in a press release that eyeIO is ‘an important part of the technology (Netflix uses) to improve video quality and overcome bandwidth challenges presented by Internet infrastructure.’”
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In 2011 Marty Roberts, VP Sales & Marketing, for thePlatform, argued that TV everywhere is taking over TV. Although the logic behind this sentence can be argued with, there has been a growth of multiscreen initiatives from both B2C service providers and B2B technology and network companies.
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