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The former chairman and chief executive of The Walt Disney Company, together with Time Warner, are among those investing in Veoh Networks, an online video start-up company based in San Diego.

Interactive television software company Emuse Technologies has signed a deal with the main commercial broadcaster in the UK to provide an independent interactive advertising platform across satellite, terrestrial, mobile and online services.

The annual MIPTV television programme market and associated conference was dominated by discussion of new forms of distribution, from mobile networks to internet protocol television, to the extent that it might have been called the Mobile and IPTV conference.

The chief executive of BT Entertainment is leaving the company before it launches the BT Vision television and broadband video service he was responsible for establishing.

Television over the internet could revolutionise broadcasting, according to the results of a consumer trial of the BBC integrated Media Player, revealed at an international conference by Ashley Highfield, the BBC director of new media and technology.

The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the winners of the first International Interactive Emmy Awards at MIPTV in Cannes in the south of France. The UK, France and South Korea were recognised in the inaugural awards.

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