Video index Blinkx may come to the connected TV market more as a feature of other services than by bringing its own services to the devices. It’s making available an API, so that IPTV applications made by other outfits can offer its videos and ads.

Online video search index and advertising firm Blinkx says it expects to blow away analysts’ expectations by posting a much stronger half-year operating profit.

Video search-and-ads firm Blinkx nearly doubled its income last year - but ongoing product costs left it with another significant loss. Suranga Chandratillake’s Blinkx is well-positioned in the fast-growing space - it’s got 720 content providers, its video searches are up 169 percent to 22.6 million a day and the…

Blinkx isn’t taking no for an answer. Despite dropping its pursuit of pay-per-click ad network MIVA last month after being rebuffed, it’s now restarted the reverse-takeover bid after recording strong earnings last week. At $0.55 per share ($19 million), the new bid is far less than the $1.20 ($41 million)…

Video site Blinkx lost $3.26 million (£2.07 million) between April and September - fairly hefty, but far less than the $12.8 million (£8.14 million) loss recorded in the same period last year, when the company was spun off from Autonomy and floated on London’s AIM market. What started as just…

Just like iPlayer, *BSkyB* and Joost before it, video search index Blinkx has decided to sideline the rather clunky standalone application for its recently-launched BBTV service, after just five months. Instead, it’s switching to an open platform called the “web”. On the one hand, CEO Suranga Chandratillake calls it “a…

—AOP: Association of Online Publishers director Ruth Brownlee will leave to concentrate on caring for her children, just nine months after starting the job in January, Guardian.co.uk reports. Brownlee played commercial roles at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), C4 and Handbag.com but said the part-time AOP job needs to be full-time -…

Updated: The Miva board has rejected this bid, “following careful review and consideration”, the company said in a statement. The board said that it “believes that blinkx’s proposal significantly undervalues Miva’s assets, including our technology, brand recognition and network…We don’t believe that the proposal, as currently constituted, is in the…

—Blinkx: Yet another product launch from the video search index - today it debuted a TV listings guide. Blinkx Remote merely links to programme pages on broadcaster websites. But, listing just five of the UK’s seven public service broadcasters only, it’s not as complete as rivals like 123webtv or TVGuide.co.uk.…

—Blinkx: Of the many press releases put out by video search site Blinkx (four so far today), one of the most significant is the announcement it is now making its core search feature available to third parties under the “Red Label” codename. First to take up the offer are MSN…

Video search index Blinkx slimmed its losses to $4.5 million in the six months to March 31, from $18.2 million in the same period last year. But revenue is down from $6.5 million to $3.6 million. The Cambridge- and San Francisco-based company said this puts its ahead of expected pace…

Market speculation from an Investec analyst (via Bloomberg) that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) or News Corp (NYSE: NWS) may buy voice recognition-based video search index Blinkx did wonders for the company today - then petered out a little. FT.com casually noted the company may seek a Nasdaq listing, adding to its…

Voice recognition-powered video search index Blinkx is announcing even more content deals this week than it usually does. Amongst the eight press releases issued in the last three days… It’s partnered with German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle and UK TV channel Five to take news and highlights throughout the day;…