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Blinx Eyes MIVA Buy for $41M

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August 8th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Let the games begin: video search engine Blinkx is hoping to acquire PPC ad company MIVA for $1.20 a share, or $41.13 million. (It’s closing price yesterday was 0.78 a share). Blinkx sent MIVA a letter stating its intentions. It reads, in part: “Our proposal represents a 54.0% premium above [...] more...

Blinkx Launches New Tool To Rev Revenue

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July 16th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Video search engine blinkx has unveiled a new tool to boost ad revenues. The product, Red Label, is billed as a complete, flexible solution that helps customers harness the Video Web and capitalize on the online video ad market. Basically, blinkx will sell its search engine to third parties. [...] more...

News Corp. Has Eye on Blinkx

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May 9th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Blinkx Plc, the video-search operator, may be snapped up by News Corp., according to a Bloomberg report. Since the news leaked, shares have skyrocketed, reaching a seven-month high today. Blinkx was founded in 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake in Britain. In May of last year, Blinkx merged with another British [...] more...

Blinkx Doubles Ad Sales Team

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May 7th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – blinkx clearly doesn’t have a case of the economic blues: the company just doubled the size of its interactive advertising sales team. The video search engine said it made the move to capitalize on the booming Internet video market – and it says it may hire more bodies [...] more...

Blinkx Scores Ad/Content Deal With Handbag.com

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April 30th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Yet another deal is in the bag! Blinkx, a video search engine, has announced a deal with Hearst Digital, the commercial aggregator of the magazine company’s online properties, including Handbag.com. The site, under the terms of the agreement, is now searchable and playable at www.blinkx.com. Blinkx will place contextually [...] more...

Blinkx Adopts Poker Face

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April 29th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Do you know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away and know when to run … online? Video search engine blinkx is partnering The Poker Channel to make Europe’s largest library of poker programming accessible at www.blinkx.com, providing ample time for [...] more...

Survey: 40% of “Double Dippers” Go Online To Find Products Advertised on TV

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February 28th 2008
Author
Editor

ADOTAS — Most consumers are media multitaskers, double-dippers, typers or talkers – and how they approach media significantly affects how they interact with advertising. Video search engine giant blinkx today released the results of a television and online video survey that studied consumers’ viewing habits. Harris Interactive conducted the survey, which [...] more...

Blinkx, Dow Jones Online Band Together for Video Indexing Content

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December 20th 2006
Author
Editor

Thanks to today’s announcement of its partnership with Dow Jones Online, Blinkx users will now be able to search and watch video clips from The Wall Street Journal Online, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s Online. Providing video search engine results, blinkx has now added business and financial news, interviews and a wealth [...] more...

Blinkx Signs Video Deal with Microsoft

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October 10th 2006
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Editor

Blinkx, the video search company owned by Autonomy Corporation, has entered into a major partnership with Microsoft to provide video search services on parts of MSN and Live.com. Blinkx uses Autonomy’s Virage technology to search much of the free video content available on the web and present it to users [...] more...

Freecaster Adds Library to blinkx.tv Video Index

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September 18th 2006
Author
Editor

Freecaster, a library of extreme sports clips, and video search engine blinkx have announced a partnership that will make Freecaster’s offerings fully searchable at blinkxtv.com. Blinkx users will be able to access Freecaster’s collection of sporting and music clips as well its major athlete and rock star profiles. Visitors will [...] more...


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