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Comcast Corp. has added to its Comcast Interactive Media division by acquiring DailyCandy, which has a fashion-and-lifestyle daily e-mail service with 2.5 million subscribers and a Web site, the cable giant said.

Philadelphia-based Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA, CMCSK) paid about $125 million to The Pilot Group equity fund for DailyCandy.

The free e-mail includes localized entertainment, beauty and other features for 12 U.S. cities, including Philadelphia, and London.

On Friday, Redlasso shut out bloggers from it excellent video search engine. This move occurred due to increasing pressure and lawsuits from a few near sighted corporations.

Rather than come up with a mutually beneficial way to work together, the networks decided that a lawsuit might be more effective.

Redlasso has decided to not pull content from their website in response to a recent cease and desist letter. In a letter to the legal councils of five broadcasters, RedLasso has indicated it will continue to make it's content available to bloggers using it's platform. They are doing this while they continue to find a way to secure proper permissions from the broadcasters.

According to website NewTeeVee, RedLasso, had 24 million unique visitors in April. And I don’t mean pre-launch like Gmail-is-still-in-beta pre-launch, I mean you can’t actually get in through the front door of the site if you aren’t explicitly given special access. Only 18,000 people are part of its private beta.

Boomi is mentioned in a NY Times article today discussing the benefits of cloud computing.

Webware discusses the soon to be released Flickr Video service. It does some analysis on what Flickr Video needs to do to be competitive. Included in the analysis is a recommendation that they adopt a concept similar to Viddler's video embedded tagging functions.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SIVOO(TM) Holdings (Pink Sheets: SIVO - News), creators of the CEDR technology platform for IP video management announced today that it has entered into a three-year technology services agreement with JumpTV Inc. (TSX, AIM: JTV). This multi-year strategic relationship leverages SIVOO's CEDR technology platform to create Video-On-Demand (VOD) assets from JumpTV's extensive streaming content offering of over 10,000 live sports events per year from over 175 sports properties and 250 channels from 70+ countries.