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Transpera, the fast-growing mobile video ad network solution has raised an additional $2 million in venture funding, according to mocoNews.

YouTube, which was expected to lose $500 million in 2009, probably lost only $200 million last year, helped by a successful advertising strategy, says Ken Auletta who reported these numbers in his best-selling book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It."

Watch CBS News Videos Online CBS News has acquired a surveillance tape showing the Haiti earthquake as it happened.   CBS says it was acquired by its Investigative Unit.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the son of persecuted Russian Jews, has been the driving force in the the company's showdown with China, says Ken Auletta, New Yorker media columnist and author of the best selling book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It."

NEW YORK, NY — Reuters was first with this stunning video of the devastating earthquake in Haiti which has been seen on CNN, CBS News, YouTube, and many outlets around the globe.

Watching CNN this morning, we have seen most of the coverage of the disaster coming from a Reuters feed.  With the country's infrastructure devastated, having quality video image is of enormous value to broadcasters around the world.

Ooyala, the video platform services company, announced today a plan to introduce its service to Japan with an alliance with NTT, Japan's largest telco. 

VideoEgg,  the San Francisco-based online video-advertising network, hit $24 million in revenue and reached profitability last year, CEO Matt Sanchez tells Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch.

Google sends nearly four billion clicks per month to news providers, according to Josh Cohen, project manager at Google News.

LAS VEGAS, NV –  Yahoo has expanded the scope of its "Connected TV" with several new television and consumer electronics manufactures and expects the platform to be in as many as 5 million Internet-enabled television sets by the end of June, we have learned.

LAS VEGAS  — Earlier this week at CES, an industry consortium of Hollywood studios and technology companies called DECE announced a plan to make digital files of premium content portable between different digital devices.

LAS VEGAS — HP unveiled a new line of stylish 2.6 pound netbooks with a very attractive price point.  The basic unit starts at $299, and with Windows 7 installed they start at $329. 

LAS VEGAS — Don't buy that new Mac yet. At CES , Intel unveiled its new Intel Core processors that will be in most major brands in Q1.  

Ryan Tate over at Gawker reports that AOL is in discussions to acquire the big social media/tech blog Mashable.

LAS VEGAS–HP, the world biggest computer maker is making its HP SkyRoom video conferencing software and service available for free on its new line of business notebooks and workstations.  The announcement was made at CES.

Later today at CES, Cisco is expected to announce a sophisticated consumer teleconferencing product, a slimmer extension of the very pricey TelePresence system for big businesses and governments, according to a report by Maggie Reardon of CNET News.com.

LAS VEGAS–At CES, HP announced a new line of PC's and netbooks, their inexpensive and powerful mini PC's that come with storage drive mapped to an external "cloud." 

At CES this week, Intel will unveil the new integrated GPU called Intel HD Graphics.  

Twitter has become a useful reporting tool as well as a big driver of traffic to paidContent, the influential digital media blog.

For several years, digital executives in Hollywood have been developing a format to allow consumers to purchase digital files of films and watch them on various devices.