Tomorrow is a big day for the wireless industry, as one of the most influential innovators in the mobile world announces the latest edition of its mobile phone operating system. With every major iteration of the iPhone’s operating system, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has disrupted the mobile ecosystem (first with the…

Round 1 goes to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The iPad, as expected, has caused a big stir, and given people like Walt Mossberg reason to gush with enthusiasm about the death of laptops. Throughout, as various members of the press have mused about the death of Amazon’s Kindle, I feel compelled…

Ustream, the popular online live broadcasting service, just announced it has raised $75 million in a second round of funding led by Softbank. Updated: The actual funding is only $20 million, for now, with an option for Softbank to purchase more of Ustream by July 2011, by putting in another…

As you may have noticed recently on our pages, we’ve launched a new video section, with help from Vodpod. The section pulls together interesting daily videos from third-party sources, our own video interviews, and video from our conference and events. We hope you’ll take a look around and let us…

With the 2016 Olympic Games all squared away and set for Rio de Janeiro, members of the International Olympic Committee could get down to more serious business—such as how to handle the issue of online video. WPP Group CEO Sir Martin Sorrell had some very simple ideas for the IOC…

News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) subsidiary Star India last week launched Star Player—an online video destination that currently features content from the broadcaster’s multiple channels. Star Player’s design and layout is similar to Hulu and Gurtej Sandhu, SVP for new media at Star, told contentSutra that the US-focussed video site is…

Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of Hotmail, has now given up on another internet business. French business networking site Viadeo has acquired Bhatia-funded social networking website ApnaCircle.com. The financial terms are not disclosed, but the deal is in stock only, according to Yogesh Bansal, co-founder of the Indian networking site. The…

Nautanki.tv Networks Pvt. Ltd, the video distribution start up in which Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt Ltd (formerly Virtual Marketing) acquired a majority stake last year, is rapidly scaling up in terms of content offerings. It has struck a deal with Star India Pvt. Ltd, the News Corp (NYSE: NWS).…

Jivox, the developer of a self-serve video ad system, has raised a $10.7 million first round led by Opus Capital, along with Helion Venture Partners and other past backers. In March, the company did a $2.7 million seed round. The San Mateo, CA and India based company claims it simplifies…

While there is no official announcement yet, this is big news for the video market. We had earlier reported Tata Comm and BitGravity, a CDN solutions provider based out of California, partnering to resell the technology platform in Europe and Asia. The service is now live with Tata entering the…

Cleartrip has launched Cleartrip Videos gleaned from the Short Flicks Festival which had been sponsored by the DAG, KPCB and Sherpalo funded online travel portal. The one to three minutes long user submitted videos are across multiple cities. This is a good addition to the Lonely Planet content tie-up feature,…

Nimbus Communications has officially launched its home video entertainment rental and sale business called Showtime. The stores, which distribute DVD, VCDs and Game CDs, are currently only Bombay centric with 8 distribution centres. The release states an investment plan of over Rs 1.5 billion in the next 3 years with…

AOL India has tied up with Galatta.com for movie content related to South India, an AOL (NYSE: TWX) spokesperson confirmed to ContentSutra. The recently launched South Cinema channel features content from Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil cinema. All the content is in English, though AOL does have local language content…

Video distribution startup Nautanki.tv has recently inked deals for three channels - with Zoom TV (BCCL Group), and with Hungama for FTV and Bollywood Hungama (earlier known as IndiaFM). All of these are revenue share deals, and there’s something particularly interesting about the Zoom deal - Zoom is doing their…

Online video content startup Tinselvision has inked a deal with UTV, by virtue of which it gets access to UTVs theatrical titles like Life In A Metro, Chup Chup Ke, Swades, among others. The movies will be available for streaming and pay-per-view. As per the release, Tinselvision is also set…

Film and television production house Moving Picture Company intends to digitize its library of rare archival footage, as per a release. The company has tied up with Movico Technologies, which intends to launch a video aggregation website (yes, another one for the list). Moving Pictures Company is listed on the…

While some have been saying that the horizontal portal is waning in influence, Web18, the internet company from the Network18 group is set to open its so-called-horizontal portal In.com for beta testing. I met Rishi Khiani (COO, Web18) and Varun Singh, (CTO, Web18) yesterday for a sneak peek at In.com.…

I met Gaurav Dhillon, Founder and CEO of Jaman, on the sidelines of FICCI Frames last month. Jaman (named after an Indian fruit) is a community site around World Cinema content, and I was rather surprised to learn that, for Jaman, India ranks second in terms of traffic. I also…

Video content from Headlines Today will be made available on blinkx, by virtue of a deal that the video search engine has struck with India Today Group Digital (ITGD/Digital Today). Blinkx will host separate channel for Headlines Today. The details of the deal haven’t been disclosed, though the industry norm…