Jivox Inc., which focuses on self-service online video advertising for local business, said it raised $10.7 million in its first round of funding. The company said its product enables smaller and local businesses to harness the power of online video advertising by reducing the cost and complexity of developing and placing online video ads.

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Microsoft Live Expo, their experiment with classified listings that launched in early 2006, will be shut down on July 31, says a notice posted on the site, above. New listings have already been suspended.

This comes as Craigslist solidifies its position as the top free listings service. Other services like Kijiji (owned by eBay) and Oodle [...]

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Last year, research from the Newspaper Association of America revealed that the majority of newspaper Web sites features video. Results from this 2008 NAA survey, which looks more closely at the area, show newspapers’ video operations are quite extensive. This is a pleasant and encouraging surprise from an industry going through a difficult period of [...]

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