Joost, which is already frustrated at its failure to get any content from BBC, ITV (LSE: ITV) and C4, has told the Competition Commission that the broadcasters’ Kangaroo JV will…

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Joost, the once-hyped-but-struggling-for-relevance online video firm started by Skype founders, has made an interesting move with one of its minority investors: it has launched a Chinese version with Tom Group,…

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-- Music Trade News: ToyNews and CasualGaming.biz publisher Intent Media has bought Music Trade News from from publisher MB Media, and will merge it with its own Musical Instruments Professional…

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Yvette Alberdingkthijm, Joost’s NYC-based EVP of content, has quit the company to become executive director of Peter Gabriel’s Witness human rights organization. Schooled in law, Alberdingkthijm had long held posts,…

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To commercial newspapers’ gripes the BBC is ”the 300lb gorilla on our garden”, add a collection of concerns on web TV and travel guides. The Sunday papers have rounded up…

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-- Seatwave: The secondary tickets marketplace is adding Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) global business development unit chief financial officer Aksel van der Wal as its own first dedicated CFO. Founded by…

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Joost, the online video service which has had more than its share of troubles since its founding, had another story this weekend to contend with, this time a sketchily-sourced story…

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Perhaps answering critics who argue its content line-up isn’t compelling enough, P2P TV platform Joost will start showing Premier League soccer in eight more territories, including the important Middle East…

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The BBC and ITV (LSE: ITV) have sought the advice of lawyers to determine whether the deep-linking that online TV listings site TVguide.co.uk does to their online video streaming is…

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In a rather surprise move, Joost has won the rights to show on-demand match highlights across the Indian subcontinent. It appears rights were given by Nimbus Sport, a sports rights…

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Six years after KaZaA was forced to reform, co-founder Janus Friis, who went on to co-found Skype and Joost, offered this analysis of the P2P network’s demise… “The timing was,…

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Joost’s CTO Dirk-Willem van Gulik (pictured) will join the BBC next month to become chief technical architect. Joost accordingly is hiring Matt Zelesko as SVP of engineering. Van Gulik will…

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- Joost: The P2P PC TV platform has done a deal with web-based IM chat service Meebo to offer its instant messaging facilities through the application. London-based Joost had run…

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Turner Broadcasting System used Cannes to announce it’s inked digital distribution deals with three online video platforms. The company will this month add short-form content from the CNN International channel…

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Joost will eventually reach the living room, isn’t planning a mobile launch but can expect more attention from one of its founding fathers. In Cannes for the Mipcom TV programming…

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Joost plans to begin testing add test live TV shows alongside its on-demand content in the first quarter of 2008. In an interview with paidContent:UK in Cannes, content strategy and…

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-- Online video outfit Joost has added ITN and Major League Baseball to its programming line-up. The ITN service will cover news in the UK and rest of the world,…

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- Joost: Joost has taken delivery of some 34 movies in a deal with Paramount Pictures UK (announcement). In April, the outfit hired former Paramount Comedy Networks Europe MD Tony…

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-- Deutsche Telekom: The German telco (NYSE:DT) plans to offer IPTV to DSL customers in its home country in a bid to boost flagging fixed-line revenues, Thomson reports. The company…

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-- Broadband video use on the rise: About 81 million people, or 63 percent of the 129 million who have broadband connections in the U.S., watch broadband video at home…

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- Top Gear: BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s overseas commercial arm, is responding to the online popularity of Top Gear with a push in the U.S. Although it is a U.K.…

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But, of course, our readers knew it last week when we were first to report that former Cisco senior exec Mike Volpi was headed to Joost as CEO and that…

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