Sony Buys Online Video Site Grouper.com

August 23, 2006 By Richard Baguley

Sony Buys Online Video Site Grouper.com

Sony is laying out some cash to gain a foothold in the online video hosting market: they’ve just paid $65 million to buy Grouper, which claims to be "the second largest independent video community". I’m betting that we will see a tie-in with Sony camcorders shortly: something along the lines of them coming with a free Grouper account so you can upload your videos. I’ve not tried Grouper myself: anybody out there care to let us know what you think of it?

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