From: Beet.TV on Sat, Jan 22 2011 12:56 PM

Norway’s Opera claims 140 million worldwide users, most of whom are on smart phones using Opera Mini.   In an interview at CES, Opera's Jeremy Forrester tells Beet.TV that the popularity of the browser on iPhone has come from its speed which is "four-to-five times faster than the native" (M...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Jan 21 2011 8:47 AM

SecondMarket, a New York-based company which provides an exchange, for some 35,000 qualified investors, to buy and sell shares in private companies, has seen demand double in the fourth quarter of 2010, Erick Schonfeld reports this morning at TechCrunch. In May, we interviewed Jeremy Smith, the ...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Jan 20 2011 4:45 PM

The Discovery Networks connects with 23 million fans on Facebook, says Kelly Day, who heads the network’s digital operations, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with her earlier this month at at CES. A spokeswoman for Discovery told you correspondent this afternoon that the network of progr...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jan 18 2011 10:40 PM

The location-based ad market is poised to grow from $213 million last year to $2 billion in 2014, according to the latest figures from local market research firm The Kelsey Group. That’s why TV networks are now jumping into the fray. Networks from NBC to HBO to OWN have paired up with ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jan 18 2011 10:40 PM

CBS has been rapidly expanding its online efforts in several major U.S. markets by integrated its local owned and affiliated television and radio stations into 15 regional portals, says Ezra Kucharz, President of Local Digital Media. We spoke with him at CES earlier this month. He explains how m...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jan 17 2011 5:36 PM

Samsung and IBM have announced plans to jointly developed semiconductors for use in mobile handsets.  Earlier this month At CES, we spoke with Yiwan Wong, VP for Business Development for Samsung. He  explains that advancement in chips is essential to many core functionalities of smart phones. An...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Jan 12 2011 6:08 PM

LAS VEGAS --  The iPad App for the New York Times has had 1.5 million downloads since it launched in April, says Ray Pearce, who heads circulation for the newspaper.  We interviewed him at CES last week. This number puts it ahead of weekly circulation for The Times which is about 950,000.  Sunda...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jan 11 2011 5:02 PM

For many in the industry who have wondered about Google’s plans to develop a universal codec for the Web, the big news is that Google will support its WebM codec on the Chrome browser, the company announced today. The company says it will not support H.264 - a widely used codec for online video....

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Jan 09 2011 9:51 PM

LAS VEGAS — Yahoo! Connected TV, a software program installed in a number of Internet-ready television sets, will soon allow producers and advertisers to enhance the viewing experience with a variety of interactive features, the company announced at CES. At CES, we spoke with Ronald Jacoby...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jan 04 2011 6:31 AM

Pioneering P2P file sharing platform BitTorrent has 100 million active users, the company announced on Monday. In November at the NewTeeVee Live event in San Francisco, we spoke with Bram Cohen, inventor of BitTorrent, about developments at the company and the development around techno...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jan 03 2011 4:30 PM

Already this week, Vizio and Toshiba have introduced new tablet computers and more tablet releases should be unveiled at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Manufacturers such as Dell, LG and Microsoft are expected to enter the market with their iPad competitors. Many of the n...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Jan 02 2011 10:27 AM

Foodspotting, the fast-growing, San Francisco-based social platform for sharing favorite food dishes has 100,000 iPhone registered users who have uploaded 250,000 dish reviews, with 10,000 uploaded every week. There are some 500,000 users of the App who consume the food pix. (Only reg...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Dec 23 2010 9:28 PM

While more and more online video publishers are connecting with audiences in their living rooms with smart TV’s, Blu-ray players and devices such as Roku and Google TV, advertising on these platforms is not yet in place. Flash-based ads don't work on televisions. As a result, the ...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Dec 22 2010 3:23 PM

LOS ANGELES — The number of online video ads viewed in November was 5.4 billion, making ads 15 percent of all videos viewed, up 25 percent since June when they accounted for 12 percent according to data provided to Beet.TV from comScore. While many of those ads were streamed by big publish...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Dec 15 2010 6:32 AM

As brands and businesses continue to migrate their services to the growing number of Smartphone users, they will want to keep the user experience that is particular to mobile phones, said consumer research firm Opinion Lab. The company recently released a report on how to migrate your Web site t...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Dec 14 2010 11:30 AM

NEW YORK — Using an algorithm which parses one million records per day, the MTV Music Meter provides a ranking of the the most talked about and fast moving tunes. For each artist in the ranking, the Meter provides music to purchase along with news, tweets and video. The platfor...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Dec 13 2010 10:28 PM

While not a conventional news organization, Denver-based Examiner.com may be the world’s largest by the sheer size of its writing stable and the amount of content being produced. Examiner.com has some 67,000 writers under contract in 230 U.S. cities who file around 100,000 stories pe...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Dec 13 2010 6:26 AM

New York-based Big Think, which launched in early 2008 with seed capital from Lawrence  Summers*, President Obama’s Director of the National Economic Council, and other investors including Peter Thiel, is serving some 5 million monthly video views and has reached profitability, says Victoria Bro...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Dec 10 2010 3:42 PM

SB Nation, a network of nearly 300 micro blogs about professional sports teams in the U.S. and Canada, has reached 100 million page views per month, making it the fastest growing, and one of the largest sports sites, says CEO Jim Bankoff in this interview with Beet.TV Last month the Washington, ...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Dec 10 2010 7:41 AM

While the 30 second pre-roll remains the dominant form of online video advertising, the medium is inexorably becoming more interactive, says Steve Robinson, CEO of Panache, the Los Angeles-based software company which is creating new forms of video ad units for major publishers. Panache is provi...