Kaltura News & Articles

Open source video platform provider Kaltura has raised a round of US$ 25 million in additional funding from new investors Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Inc. and ORIX Ventures, as well as existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, .406 Ventures and Avalon Ventures. Kaltura says it will use the funds to support a planned expansion into the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

Open source video platform Kaltura has released Kaltura MediaSpace Version 4.0 -- the newest version of the company’s out-of-the-box centralized video portal. Kaltura MediaSpace allows users to integrate video into social collaboration.

With the web becoming the go-to destination for breaking and local news, Internet Broadcasting launches ibPublish 2, an advanced digital content management and publishing platform designed for the future of digital video publishing.

Gartner: Portals, Content and Collaboration isn’t just about the sessions and keynotes, it’s about building relationships with attendees and exhibitors alike. This week, many key social business vendors announced new releases and launches. Here are a few that caught our attention.

Publishers that wish to take advantage of Kaltura's (news, site) open-source video platform to push their own services can now sign up with Kaltura's recently-launched Partner Program. Targeted at resellers, system integrators OEMs, media consultants and marketing agencies, the Partner Program provides a white-label edition of Kaltura's commercial offering.

This week sees the National Association of Broadcasters show take place in Las Vegas. It's the place to find out what's happening in Internet broadcasting alongside other TV and film technologies.

A rash of investment deals have taken place in the last few days, throwing funding at web companies that venture capitalists think will make it big in the near future.

Kaltura (news, site) launches the latest version of its open source community edition and adds Amazon back-end power.

The Open World Forum (news, site), a conference around the technological, financial and social impact of open technologies, has announced that they're looking for competitors for their Demo Cup competition.

The latest upgrade to Accordent’s (news, site)  Media Management System (AMMS) extends the video content platform by giving enterprises out-of-the box integration with content delivery networks (CDNs), enabling them to control how video content is delivered across enterprises.

If Kyte (news, site) was looking to become a video platform to reckon with when it upgraded in January, then the announcement that it has extended cross-platform support to bring social video to Facebook (news, site) should help it down that road very nicely.

Tiki's (news, site) rampant expansion continues with the addition of a range of collaboration services for its groupware users.

Kaltura Exchange (news, site) is providing a trading post for those creating apps using the open-source video platform.

Though Kyte (news, site) originally launched as a consumer-focused video product, the company has been aggressively expanding their services for their Tier 1 clients. Hoping to become an online video platform provider to reckon with, today’s release of Kyte Console 2.0 offers improved content management as well as some nifty new features.  

Kaltura (news, site) is making a number of moves lately with its open source video platform. After being listed as one of 10 Innovative Application Companies Under $100M to Watch by IDC you probably expected to start seeing things happening. And happening they are.