BusinessWeek Online Partners with blinkx TV

BusinessWeek Online Partners with blinkx TV

BusinessWeek Online and blinkx Partner to Supply Users Top Business News

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer and on the Web, today announced a content agreement with BusinessWeek Online, www.businessweek.com. Under the agreement, blinkx will index BusinessWeek's content, making it easily searchable at www.blinkx.tv.

With continuous coverage of today's business issues, BusinessWeek Online is a leading full-service Web site for senior-level executives. The site provides readers with daily perspective, unique insights, breaking news, and in-depth analysis of the latest trends in the business world. Content from BusinessWeek TV, including reports on the state of the economy, insight from captains of industry, and detail on the best business schools will also be made easily searchable on the blinkx.tv site. In addition, users will be able to find new podcasts by Steve Wildstrom, BusinessWeek's renowned technology expert, which feature tips on understanding the world of technology. blinkx's technology will automatically index and transcribe BusinessWeek Online's content and provide viewers with easy access to that information at blinkx.TV's search site.

"By automatically indexing and transcribing our content, blinkx will help give our users more of the timely information they need to make critical business decisions," said Peggy White, Vice President and General Manager of BusinessWeek Online.

"The information available on BusinessWeek Online is a necessity in the business world and we are delighted to be partnering with them," said Jon Gregg, US VP of Business Development, blinkx. "We look forward to providing our users with high quality, useful content as found on BusinessWeek Online."

blinkx.TV and advanced audio/video analysis

blinkx TV combines advanced speech recognition and transcription techniques with intelligent Context Clustering Technology (CCT) and a patented context prediction and synchronization technology to analyze and understand the actual content (spoken words) of an audio/video file, delivering unparalleled automation, accuracy and access to multimedia content from the web. The output of these analytical sub-processes are stored as further metadata tracks, alongside the digitally encoded content itself; not only does blinkx know what was said, blinkx knows exactly when it was said.

About BusinessWeek Online

BusinessWeek's award-winning Web site www.BusinessWeek.com provides users with daily perspective, unique insights, breaking news, and in-depth analysis of the latest trends in the business world. With continuous coverage of today's business issues, BusinessWeek Online is a leading full-service Web site for senior-level executives. At BusinessWeek Online, users find eight channels replete with trusted information and resources to help manage their personal and professional lives. From small business to global business, personal investing to corporate strategies, BusinessWeek Online provides insight and perspective on all topics relevant to today's business professionals. In addition to unparalleled journalism, the site also offers interactive tools, reports, data, forums, and newsletters.

About blinkx

blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer and on the Web, is changing the way that people think about search. Only blinkx can harness the desktop, Web and TV -- unifying content with a one stop search tool. Available to users on the Web at www.blinkx.com and www.blinkx.tv, as well as free to download, blinkx automatically and intelligently links to content anywhere and in any format, on the Web, on the desktop and even on TV. blinkx's conceptual toolbar means users are no longer limited to keyword search; instead, blinkx assesses all the information that the user is actively viewing, and automatically recommends and retrieves relevant content, from local, Web and TV searches, based on context. In addition, www.blinkx.tv makes thousands of hours of TV content fully searchable and available on demand for the first time. blinkx is a privately-held company based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.

Source: blinkx

CONTACT: Julia Blystone of OutCast Communications, +1-415-392-8282, or
julia@outcastpr.com, for blinkx

Web site: http://www.businessweek.com/

Web site: http://www.blinkx.tv/

Web site: http://www.blinkx.com/

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