Joost

Can Video-Streaming Site Joost Avoid Going Off the Air? By Jacqueline Emigh - Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:46PM EST Add articles about technology to your My Yahoo! Facebook creates dual-class structure, but no IPO (AP) Way outdone by rivals...

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Ah, 2007, when online video sites like Joost and Veoh were poised to take over the world. Now, two years later, both have seen their fortunes falter. Adconion Media Group, an ad network, quietly purchased "certain assets" of Joost, the...

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...cable and satellite providers, broadcasters and video aggregators, and lay off some of its employees. In Joost's Best Interest That same month Joost began winding down operations and closed a Netherlands office. At that time, Matt...

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...interest from the cable television operators like Time Warner Cable and Comcast. Adconion will acquire the Joost trademark, Joost.com and some of the technology that Joost had hoped would have made it into the Web's premier place for...

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...Tuesday it bought Joost assets for an undisclosed sum. These include the technology behind Joost's video platform and the Joost trademark. About 12 Joost employees - the majority - were given jobs at Adconion, which plans to continue...

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...it sounds awfully dull. An announcement Tuesday tells us all that "certain assets" of a "white-label" online video service called Joost have been acquired by Adconion Media, which calls itself "the largest independent global audience and...

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...to continue operating its Web site under the same name. Adconion Media Group said Tuesday it bought Joost for an undisclosed sum. Joost had earlier approached cable TV operators Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. about a buying it.

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...privately-held Joost were not disclosed. Digital media website PaidContent.org said about a dozen of Joost's remaining 20 employees will join Adconion. Joost was launched with great fanfare in January 2007 but it never really caught on with...

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...of the transaction were not disclosed, but it's likely a firesale that isn't bringing any returns to Joost's investors. Last June, Joost announced a change in its business strategy to focus on providing white-label video platforms, and...

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