CNN Buys Video Messaging Firm Beme
CNN bought video messaging app firm Beme, Beme Chief Technology Officer Matt Hackett wrote on Medium. Beme will shut down Jan. 31, he said, saying he's "unsentimental about ending it." Beme "as a single product failed. Beme as a vision…
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for the kind of technology and media that must be built is just getting started," Hackett said Monday, saying the company will be able to do more with CNN resources. CNN said separately it's starting a stand-alone company with Beme founders Hackett and Casey Neistat, with Hackett and the Beme development team building the technology behind it, and developing mobile video capabilities for CNN, while Neistat will be the focal point of "a new media brand for a new audience." CNN said the company -- to launch by summer 2017 -- will focus on "filling the world with excellent, timely and topical video and empowering content creators to use technology to find their voice. It won’t be what most people think of as 'news.'"