Video search engine blinkx has provided a brief trading update. In November 2012, blinkx announced that it had an exceptional first half, driven by the early integration of recent acquisitions and the effects of the US elections and London Olympics. blinkx is now reporting that trading in the third quarter continued to be strong. Therefore, […]
Dijit Media, maker of the popular NextGuide and Dijit Remote TV discovery and control applications, has confirmed it is in the process of acquiring GoMiso, maker of the Miso, SideShows, and Quips social TV products. Dijit will continue to support Miso and Sideshow users, but intends to shut down the Quips app and service. Somrat […]
Investor BlackRock has lifted its stake in the company above 10 per cent as shares rose on the launch of its new web site. Nonetheless , at 65p, shares in the advanced video search engine are still short of last year’s 80p high. Weakness in the online advertising market, on which blinkx’s revenues depend, have […]
blinkx, the advanced video engine, has officially launched the next generation of its flagship product, blinkx.com. The new site was designed to enhance the video discovery and viewing experience, with strong recommendation and personalisation, as well as integration across users’ social graph. In open beta testing over the past four months, blinkx.com’s focus on delivering […]
blinkx, the advanced video search engine, has announced a partnership with Dailymotion, the online video portal. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will embed Dailymotion’s player alongside its own content to give users seamless access to Dailymotion’s video library on blinkx. Dailymotion will place advertising against these videos and share resulting revenue with blinkx. […]
Announcing a raft of licensing agreements, taste-and-mood based entertainment discovery engine specialist is now claiming to be the biggest discovery provider for Tier-1 providers worldwide, and that its semantic approach will be at the forefront of next-generation entertainment experience. Jinni says the deals represent aggressive worldwide growth and the beginning of market transformation from the […]
At CES, Video content discovery solutions provider Jinni has unveiled a new NLU (natural language understanding) discovery engine to power voice-activated video guides that understand natural human language. The Jinni NLU engine leverages the company’s Entertainment Genome to interpret natural human speech and derive the underlying meaning to enable intuitive interaction between users and their […]
Cox Communications has announced enhancements to its premium TV product, Cox Advanced TV Plus, with an upgrade to the Trio Programme Guide. The enhanced Trio Guide will allow users to receive personal recommendations for up to eight users in a household, based on the movies and shows they already enjoy watching “We are making significant […]
CASBAA and international media and technology law firm Olswang have launched Singapore’s first online directory of digital content available from legitimate sources. The pilot directory is available to all at finddigitaltv.com and allows users to search for content by genre, device or just search for content that is free. The directory is being launched in […]
ThinkAnalytics, the company behind the world’s most widely deployed multiplatform TV Search & Recommendations Engine, has increased its customer base by 75 per cent over the past six months with 15 new operator customers. With a global customer base that now stands at 35 operators and more than 80 million licensed subscribers, ThinkAnalytics is benefiting […]