Record label EMI may have tired of suing individual file sharers for copyright infringement. But a number of music-industry plaintiffs, all partners and subsidiaries of EMI, are suing social network Hi5 and advertising startup VideoEgg in New York Southern District Court for copyright infringement. According to the…
The problem with lists like BusinessWeek's collection of 13 under-30 entrepreneurs: Inevitably, in an effort to fill a demographic quota, editors scrape the bottom of the barrel. And presenting a balanced picture of these business novices cuts against the goal of serving up fresh faces. (Whether they're supposed to…
Last summer, VideoEgg CEO Matt Sanchez complained that Google ripped off his company's innovation when YouTube began selling ads that popped up along the bottom margin of videos while they played. Now Sanchez doesn't so much care. YouTube, he told NewTeeVee, is only going to earn revenues of about $70 million to $90…
Google is introducing "overlay" ads that fill up a fifth of the screen while playing YouTube videos. Google executive Eileen Naughton describes it as something Google "[has] come up with." But like Google's AdSense, the idea didn't originate in the Googleplex; clips on rival video site VideoEgg has featured overlays…
Just so we all know what we're snarking this week, here's what the Big 3 5 7 plus or minus 2 are rolling out.
