With video search set to be the next big growth area BLNX have the software the likes of Microsoft, Google and NewsCorp would love to have.

In fact BLNX have done deals with most of these, the most recent being the UtargetFox deal which has been reported in the USA but not RNS'd in the UK.

Alexa rankings confirm the continued growth in usage as its viral effect spreads:-

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/blinkx.com

The ITN RNS confirms blnx is the best in the market and is growing fast:-

Leading News Organization ITN Extends Advertising Deal with blinkx Based on Proven Campaign Success




blinkx Selected to Power Advertising across ITN Website and Syndication Partner Sites




SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - July 2, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has won an extension contract that will augment the scope of its advertising partnership with ITN, one of the world's leading news and multimedia content companies. Under the terms of the new agreement, ITN will use AdHoc, blinkx's patented contextual advertising platform for online TV and video, to serve advertisements on the ITN website and its syndication partner sites, including Bebo.




Through AdHoc, ITN has already been effectively monetizing its premium news content on the blinkx.com network for over six months. During this time, ITN achieved a significantly better return, greater search volume, and higher monetization through blinkx than through other syndication partners.




AdHoc uses blinkx's patented speech-to-text transcription and visual analysis technology to understand video content more thoroughly and effectively than any other service today, and can therefore dynamically place the most pertinent advertising against it. The AdHoc platform offers media companies and advertisers a unique value proposition -- video advertising which combines the emotive power of TV promotion, with the relevance and utility of contextual search advertising.




The confluence of ITN's premium TV content, blinkx's extensive syndication network, and AdHoc's uniquely powerful targeting capabilities was a formula for success. By extending its partnership with blinkx, ITN aims to achieve similar returns by leveraging the AdHoc platform to deliver contextually relevant video advertising on its own website and across its distribution partner sites.




'We're thrilled to be broadening our relationship with ITN,' said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. 'News content is one of the most popular categories of online video and there's clearly a tremendous opportunity for monetization. The success of our partnership with ITN is evidence that the blinkx AdHoc platform is a uniquely powerful solution for online video advertising today.'




'We've been delighted with the results of our partnership with blinkx and are looking forward to implementing the AdHoc technology on our site,' said Nicholas Wheeler, managing director, ITN On. 'blinkx AdHoc has proven that it can achieve significant monetization of our content, effective marketing for advertisers and, most importantly, a useful, non-disruptive experience for our audience.'




As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the most effective way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.

When I first took a look at the Blinx website a couple of years ago I thought it was sh*te; very difficult to navigate. It has improved greatly since but I think there is a lot of improvement to be made. Or it could be that my MacBook doesn't like it!

I hold BLNX by the way, mainly because they do appear to have momentum. Maybe not sp-wise but there is something there!

Haystack, you've been saying BLNX will fall since 20p or so, no doubt you will be proven correct eventually!

Lolyou have noticed Peter?

Never in the history of investing has so much crap been written so incomprehensibly about a Royal Flushstillit does give investors like myself that are never wrong the opportunity to do a little trading on the sidewhat a stock and thank you very much!

If you want to blame anybody for stock market failureall shares falling indiscriminately with the economic downturnsI would suggest you direct your attentions to behaviour of the banking industryask Mervyn!

It is also worth mentioningas nobody else hasBlackRock the world's largest and most respected asset management firm has in the last few days increased its holding in BLNX to over 10%a massive increase and doubling their stake!

Btw... Haystack posted on a number of bb's that BlackRock had soldso do you think he has an interest for the price to fall? naughty naughty!

Thursday 18th August 2011, 12:37am

TECHNOLOGY

ALISON LOCK

BLINKX, the worlds biggest video search website, added mountain biking, heavy metal music and gaming to its burgeoning content portfolio yesterday as it penned a partnership with magazine group Future Publishing.

Future, which produces magazines such as Metal Hammer and Xbox World 360, will make all of its 100 or so digital magazines available on Blinkx on an advertising revenue share basis.

Blinkx will get the benefits of Futures viewer base of more than 25m unique monthly users, and 160m page impressions, as it sells advertising around the video player.

Blinkx founder and chief executive Suranga Chandratillake said the partnership gave it access to Futures wide variety of high-quality special interest content.

Futures UK chief executive Mark Wood said video content was a key strategic driver for our business moving forward. Blinkxs technology and search abilities would allow fans everywhere to easily discover and watch relevant video content online, he added.

The partnership with Future is the latest catalyst in a high-speed growth path for Blinkx, which was spun out of Cambridge-based intelligent software developer Autonomy in 2007.

It has added more than 720 content partnerships so far, with recent additions including Fashion TV and news aggregator Newslook. It says it has indexed more than 35m hours of video and audio content to date.

Blinkx raised 25m in a London IPO in 2007 and is now valued at about 400m, as it has proved a hit with consumers.

Its technology protected by more than 100 patents uses algorithms to detect patterns in content such as images and sounds.

http://www.cityam.com/news-and-analysis/blinkx-host-future-s-web-magazines

True or false?

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), the worlds largest computer maker, is planning to announce the acquisition of Autonomy Corp. for about $10 billion and the spinoff of its personal-computer business, said people familiar with the companys plans.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-18/hp-said-to-be-near-10-billion-autonomy-takeover-spinoff-of-pc-business.html

Which ever way this plays out BLNX will gain.

In addition to selling off its PC business, Hewlett-Packard will reportedly make a $10 billion bid for Autonomy, according to Bloomberg.

Autonomy provides software for enterprises to help find and make sense of data hidden away in documents and other files throughout their organization. It's the largest software company by market cap in the U.K.

More updates as we get them.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/report-hp-to-make-10-billion-bid-for-autonomy-2011-8#ixzz1VOtOEqAg


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/18/businessinsider-report-hp-to-make-10-billion

Maybe it's August fool joke. Not done much for AU. today down 8.28%

The Board of Autonomy (the "Company") notes recent press speculation and confirms that it is in discussions with Hewlett-Packard regarding a possible offer for the Company.

This will put shorters on red alert any obvious manipulation will be met with a hefty fineshort sellers losing that cosy edge they have had for so long bodes well for the future.how you doing haystack and the gang?

31 August 2011

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today published a decision notice for Swift Trade Inc (Swift Trade) indicating that it has decided to fine Swift Trade 8m for market abuse.

Swift Trade has referred the matter to the Upper Tribunal (the Tribunal) where it and the FSA will present their case. The Tribunal will then determine the appropriate action for the FSA to take. The Tribunal may uphold, vary or cancel the FSAs decision. The Tribunals decision will be made public on its website.

In the decision notice dated 6 May 2011, the FSA set out its decision to fine Swift Trade, a non FSA authorised Canadian company with global operations, for systematically and deliberately engaging in a form of manipulative trading known as layering.

In the FSAs opinion, between 1 January 2007 and 4 January 2008, Swift Trades manipulative trading caused a succession of small price movements in a wide range of individual shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) from which Swift Trade made substantial profits. It has not been possible to measure Swift Trades profits precisely; however, they were in excess of 1.75m.

The decision notice states that the FSA believes that this was a particularly serious case of market abuse. It was widespread and repeated on many occasions involving tens of thousands of trading orders by many individual traders sometimes acting in concert with each other across many locations worldwide. The trading led to a false or misleading impression of supply and demand and an artificial share price in the shares they traded which was to the detriment of other market participants. The FSA believes that such conduct, if unchecked, could undermine market confidence.

Further, in March 2007, it is the FSAs opinion that when Swift Trade became aware that the LSE had raised concerns about its trading activity it actively sought to evade restrictions on its trading by refining its trading pattern to avoid detection. Swift Trade said it would impose effective controls on its trading but in fact took further steps to avoid regulatory scrutiny by changing its Direct Market Access (DMA) provider. DMA is a service offered by some stockbrokers who are exchange member firms that enables investors to place buy and sell orders directly on the order book.

The FSA believes the size of the proposed fine reflects the serious nature of the market abuse and should act as a deterrent to other market participants.

Tracey McDermott, acting FSA director of enforcement and financial crime said:

The FSA remains committed to tackling abuse of the UK markets - wherever it originates. Interference with the price formation process threatens the integrity of those markets.

Market participants who offer direct market access should be aware of the risks that such access may be abused and take proactive steps to prevent it.

Swift Trade and its President and CEO, Peter Beck, have commenced judicial review proceedings to challenge the FSAs decision made on 11 May 2011 to publish the decision notice. These proceedings are ongoing. They also obtained a High Court injunction on 9 June 2011 to restrain publication of the decision notice. That injunction lapsed on 16 August 2011 following the Tribunals decision dated 2 August 2011 that rejected an application for prohibition of publication of the decision notice. On 26 August 2011, the High Court dismissed a further application for an interim injunction to restrain the FSA from publishing the decision notice.

On 13 December 2010 Swift Trade was voluntarily dissolved under Canadian law after changing its name to 7722656 Canada Inc and its remaining assets were transferred to a former holding company, BRMS Holdings Inc. Any creditors claims including fines levied by the FSA would be paid out of these funds. Despite the dissolution of Swift Trade the FSAs legal proceedings against Swift Trade will continue as if Swift Trade had not been dissolved.

The FSA has liaised with other regulators worldwide and with the LSE in bringing this action and acknowledges their assistance.

Missed this recent broker Buy....

Blinkx PLC

FORECASTS 2012 2013
Date Rec Pre-tax () EPS (p) DPS (p) Pre-tax () EPS (p) DPS (p)

Daniel Stewart
30-08-11 BUY 15.11 3.72 24.77 5.51

Hmmmmnice!

A stonking performance today, up 10.5

and on the rampage again with good volume - strange

Reasonable Burst Media RNS yesterday maybe?

New all time high

It has hit 155 intraday sometime in the last 12 months.

So, we neeed to hold above 148

It breached 150 once in April and twice in May - highest was 155. Yesterday's RNS makes for interesting reading - albeit, not that meaningful to me!