20 Jan 2014
London, England and San Francisco, CA. 20 January 2014 - blinkx plc ("blinkx" or the "Company"), today announces that Suranga Chandratillake, Founder of blinkx plc, is becoming a General Partner at Balderton Capital. Mr. Chandratillake will remain Chief Strategy Officer of blinkx, a role he assumed in 2012, and executive director of the Company.
About blinkxblinkx (LSE AIM: BLNX) is an Internet media company that connects consumers and brands through premium content online. Founded in 2004, blinkx pioneered Internet Video Search using its patented COncept Recognition Engine (CORE). This technology leverages speech recognition, text and image analysis to deeply understand the meaning and context of video content to generate improved search relevancy for consumers and a brand safe environment for advertisers. Today, blinkx is a broad digital media technology, distribution and monetization platform that connects consumers, advertisers and content across four screens. Through its partnerships with hundreds of media companies, including ABC, NBC, Conde Nast, Reuters and Bloomberg, blinkx has indexed and search enabled millions of hours of video content. blinkx powers video search, discovery or monetization on thousands of online properties including AOL, Lycos, ABC, CBS and Fox Sports. blinkx is headquartered in San Francisco, California with 15 offices worldwide. For more information please visit www.blinkx.com.
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