"Amazon is entering the video rental business in a big way. But rather
than receiving DVDs through the post, its customers will be watching
films and TV series online.
The US group has acquired LoveFilm,
whose British boss, Simon Calver, has now moved on, and its engineering
team has been merged with Byrne's.
Together they will create the
websites and apps that distribute Amazon's vast library of films and
television shows to every shape and size of screen."
from The Guardian
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Should be a natural target for Blinkx to try and partner with, no? The pitch would be that you could add value to the Amazon offering (or indeeed Netflix or similar) by offering a library of 135m hours of long-form video to subscribers - and by tracking what they watch you could better profile them and then cross-sell paid-for videos based on that profile.
But then what do I know? I'm not running the "world's leading video search company" which has just crawled back above its IPO price five years after float...
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