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blinkx Overview
blinkx is one of the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine.
Founded in 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake, the company completed a tremendously successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) in May, 2007 and currently has a market capitalization of US$350M*, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA and the UK.
blinkx has built a reputation as the Remote Control for the Video...More»
blinkx is one of the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine.
Founded in 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake, the company completed a tremendously successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) in May, 2007 and currently has a market capitalization of US$350M*, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA and the UK.
blinkx has built a reputation as the Remote Control for the Video Web. Now, with an index of over 18 million hours of searchable video and more than 200 media partnerships, including national broadcasters, commercial media giants, and private video libraries, it has cemented its position as the premier destination for online TV.
blinkx pioneered video search on the Internet, developing an engine based on technology that was conceived at Cambridge University, enhanced by $150M in R&D over 12 years, and is now protected by 111 patents.«Less
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Funding
| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 09/2003 | Seed | 9M | Unknown |
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Products
| Name: | Blinkx |
| Product URL: | http://www.blinkx.com/ |
| Description: | Blinkx analyzes videos speech and meta data to tease out the content of the video. They also claim to use visual recognition as well. However, Blinkx has also leveraged their technology to launch adHoc, contextual advertising based on the content of the video. |
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09/18/2008 05:38PM by kilmeny
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Bulls vs. Bears (2)
| Bullish Opinions (1) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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Blinkx just signed five ad deals with TV networks |
tara 04/08/2008 |
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100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
| Bearish Opinions (1) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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Video search is a very crowded space |
dave 01/16/2008 |
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100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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| Alexa Rank: | 1404 |  |
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| Yahoo Search Results: | 5,400,000 | ||
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