New York — Just two months after adding the video annotation functionality to its YouTube video-sharing website, Google on Wednesday announced that it has acquired video mashup/presentation company Omniso, a California-based social video start-up company for an undisclosed sum, which focuses on making videos more interactive. Google disclosed the acquisition on its YouTube blog Wednesday […]

London — Peter Barron, the man who has an astonishing media expertise — for four years as Newsnight editor, is leaving the BBC to join Google as head of communications and public affairs for the UK, Ireland and Benelux regions. Barron, who has edited Newsnight since May 2004, has been appointed as the search engine’s […]

AOL Reduces Weak Properties, Focuses On Ads New York – Unable to gain a solid stand in the personal media space, AOL plans to scrape its Bluestring, a site to share videos, music, and photos; Xdrive, a general-purpose online storage service; and AOL Pictures, where people could store and share photos, as the Time Warner […]