Neowin News Feed for: Vimeo

Once valued at $100 billion, AOL is about to be sold by Yahoo for just $1 billion

Usama Jawad — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:06:01 +0000

Yahoo is apparently on the verge of selling AOL to an Italy-based tech firm for $1.4 billion, after being purchased for roughly $5 billion four years ago. Read more...

Vimeo is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, the parent company of Evernote

David Uzondu — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:44:02 +0000

Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons has entered into an agreement to acquire video hosting platform Vimeo. Read more...

Vimeo to shut down all of its TV streaming apps later this month

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 05:38:01 +0000

Vimeo said it's discontinuing streaming apps for various TV platforms, including Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Fire TV. The change will come into effect later this month but users do have alternatives. Read more...

Vimeo improves page load times with support for AVIF images

Usama Jawad — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 04:10:01 +0000

Vimeo has announced support for AVIF images which offer comparable quality while lowering file size. This will improve page load times and bandwidth consumption on browsers which support it. Read more...

Dropbox Extensions aims to make users more productive

Paul Hill — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 19:06:01 +0000

Dropbox has announced Dropbox Extensions; these are additional tools provided by third-party companies to enhance Dropbox user productivity. Extensions will be available from November 27. Read more...

UK Home Office AI tackles extremist propaganda [Update]

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:54:01 +0000

The UK Home Office has developed new software that is able to scan for, and remove, terrorist content being uploaded online. The Government will share the software with smaller online platforms. Read more...

HDR content now supported up to 8K on Vimeo

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:52:01 +0000

Vimeo isn't a streaming service you hear about much anymore, but it is still alive and kicking and offering its users new features. Today, it announced support for HDR content up to 8K. Read more...

Vimeo introduces support for 360-degree content, supports up to 8K resolution

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 03:26:01 +0000

Vimeo has updated its service to support 360-degree content. The streaming platform will offer a variety of features and tools for creators and will even support video resolutions up to 8K. Read more...

Github, Sourceforge, Vimeo, and more blocked in India in antiterror advisory [UPDATE]

Adrian Potoroaca — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:50:01 +0000

In an order issued by the Indian government to ISPs, the Department of Telecom is demanding them to block access to 32 websites, including large sites like Sourceforge, Vimeo. Read more...

Joss Whedon bypasses movie studios, his latest movie is a $5 rental from Vimeo

John Callaham — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:39:43 +0000

In Your Eyes, the latest movie written by Buffy and Firefly creator Joss Whedon, is bypassing theaters and the normal VOD avenues and is now available as a 72 hour rental for $5 via Vimeo. Read more...

Vimeo shows off new lightning-fast player

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:08:59 +0000

Vimeo has launched a new version of its video player. Re-engineered from the ground up it offers great performance and speed improvements as well as some fancy features thanks to HTML5. Read more...

iOS 7 will integrate Flickr and Vimeo, reports suggest

Ben Buffone — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:39:57 +0000

A report claims that Apple plans to comprehensively integrate Flickr and Vimeo support into the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 7, when it arrives later this year. Read more...

New media apps, including Vimeo, released for Xbox 360

John Callaham — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Microsoft is launching even more media streaming apps for its Xbox 360 console this week, including the Vimeo and AOL On apps in the US, along with an update to the Verizon FiOS app. Read more...

Microsoft to add MTV, Maxim and more video apps to Xbox Live

John Callaham — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:02:47 +0000

Microsoft announced that a large number of new video streaming apps will be added to the Xbox 360 for Xbox Live Gold subscribers in 2013, and several new apps will make their debut this week. Read more...

New Vimeo and Microsoft Insider Windows Phone 8 apps released

John Callaham — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:09:37 +0000

Vimeo has released the Windows Phone 8 version of its video streaming app, which includes a way to share videos between phones via NFC. Microsoft has also launched a new version of its Insider app. Read more...

Vimeo Windows 8 app makes its debut

John Callaham — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:06:02 +0000

The popular video streaming service Vimeo has now made its debut on Windows 8, releasing an app that lets folks check out the many videos on their service and upload their own clips to Vimeo. Read more...

Microsoft launches new Movie Maker and Photo Gallery

John Callaham — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:33:54 +0000

Microsoft has released new versions of its Movie Maker and Photo Gallery software for both Windows 7 and Windows 8, along with Vimeo as a new publishing partner for videos. Read more...

India blocks The Pirate Bay and Vimeo

Paul Ferson — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:31:45 +0000

Indian internet providers have taken steps to reduce the amount of piracy ongoing in the country, blocking sites such as The Pirate Bay, as well as Vimeo, for seemingly no discernible reason. Read more...

Windows Phone gets new Vimeo video app

John Callaham — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:27:27 +0000

Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace had added a new Vimeo app, allowing users of the popular streaming video web site to view and even upload new videos to the service. Read more...