Contentinople | March 7, 2008
John Edwards, CEO of streaming content technology provider Move Networks, says that his company is close to finalizing a Series C round of venture capital that will be more than the $34 million that has been previously rumored.
“There was a leak out that said we raised $34 million,” said Edwards in an interview with Contentinople yesterday. “That number is low.”
Move is clearly onto something. It is growing like a weed out there in the Utah desert, going from 40 employees to 140 employees in one year. It’s wrapped up some big media deals, including providing streaming video technology for Fox, ABC, Discovery Channel, and Oprah.com.
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Online Video Watch | March 5, 2008
“At the MIX conference this afternoon, Perkins Miller of NBC demoed the Silverlight powered video platform for NBCOlympics.com. Duncan Riley liveblogging for TechCrunch called it “kickass,” and it deservedly got the largest ovation of the day.”
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Socaltech.com | February 29, 2008
Tony Perkins (who founded Red Herring Magazine and now heads AlwaysOn) gave a great keynote…Perkins also talked about the effect technology is having on the entertainment industry, and also showed an HD clip of “Lost” using broadband streaming technology from Move Networks… Full Article…
Multichannel News | February 21, 2008
ESPN360.com’s presentation of the Feb. 20 Phoenix Suns vs. Los Angeles Lakers basketball game was the debut of a new application, from Move Networks, that presents a high-definition stream matched to the speed of the viewer’s Internet service provider. Full Article…
Contentinople | February 11, 2008
It’s anecdotal evidence only, but I think a big indication of this trend is that my wife has been watching episodes of “Lost,” in HD, on the ABC site. My wife is typically not an early adopter of technology, she usually waits until it’s more mainstream. I was a bit shocked to come home one night and find Lost streaming across a 19″ flat-screen computer monitor in crisp, clear glory. In simple terms, the quality of the picture was better than you got on a traditional TV set just five years ago. Full Article…
Streaming Media | February 6, 2008
Move Networks, which hosts ABC’s ABC News Now, began coverage early in the day with Now’s scaled-down version of the mainstream broadcast ABC News, complete with former on-air anchor Sam Donaldson. The quality of the stream was extremely good, even at close to full screen, and Move/ABC followed a trend that other news organizations were offering: access to premium service free for the day. Full Article…
NewTeeVee | February 5, 2008
thePlatform, a Seattle-based video publishing and distribution service owned by Comcast, is doing a big partner announcement tonight. Many of these are old deals, but thePlatform is right to call attention to the impressive library of partners it can offer to its customers. This includes new arrangements to support advertising from Adap.tv, content delivery from Cisco, and playback technology from Move Networks. Full Article…
FierceIPTV | February 5, 2008
If you can’t get enough politics for today’s Super Tuesday Primary race, try ABC’s online coverage. ABC is taking the oh-so-brave move and is actually putting its coverage of the primaries online for the day. The press release breathlessly compared FDRs famous fireside radio chats and the first TV debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon to today when ABC is “bringing political content to Americans in a never-before-explored format.” Full Article…
