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Vidyo Selected as a Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup

Red Herring has named Vidyo, Inc. to its Top 100 North America list, recognizing the company’s industry-leading innovation and market impact. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.

“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “We believe Vidyo embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Vidyo should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.”

Vidyo Shatters Telepresence Price Barrier | Vidyo

Vidyo®, Inc. today announced VidyoPanorama, a groundbreaking personal telepresence solution that delivers the industry’s first affordable 1080p at 60 fps solution supporting up to 20 screens at 10% the cost of current telepresence solutions. Vidyo is the only company that delivers affordable immersive interactions across 1080p 60 fps multi-screen telepresence rooms, video conferencing rooms, desktops, iOS and Android-based smart phones and tablets, (including the iPhone, iPad 2, Xoom, Galaxy, Nexus S and others) enabling employees to use the devices they want to use.

Vidyo’s Telemedicine Platform Delivers | Telehealth Platform | Vidyo

Hackensack, NJ – May 18, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc. has again raised the bar in video communications and collaboration, in this case with the focus on healthcare practitioners, patients and their families. Vidyo’s versatile telehealth solution is being embraced globally by leading medical establishments, and at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, Vidyo’s platform is allowing a team of “Virtual Care” specialists to employ more efficient and effective methods of video communication to support critical internal and community health programs. Vidyo for Healthcare allows Holy Cross–based physicians to easily connect with patients, caregivers and other providers beyond the limits of the hospital, including extended care facilities, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities and even the homes of patients and their families. To see Vidyo for Healthcare in action at Holy Cross, click here.

Vidyo Drives Interoperability of H.264 SVC Standard-Based Systems

HACKENSACK, NJ, May 12, 2011 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that two of its internationally renowned technologists, co-founder and chief scientist, Dr. Alexandros Eleftheriadis and Dr. Stephan Wenger, CTO of VidyoCast , the company’s broadcast division, were among the four co-authors of the “RTP payload format for Scalable Video Coding” specification that was published as RFC 6190 on May 7, 2011. The standard was developed by a group of experts in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and defines how SVC is to be carried in the Internet over RTP (the real-time protocol used for video and voice). It will be used wherever SVC real time video is transported over IP-based networks, and is considered to be the most significant document for ensuring interoperability of scalable video transmission next to the coding specification defined in the H.264 standard.

Vidyo Wins 2011 Best of Interop Award for Collaboration

INTEROP- LAS VEGAS – May 10, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that it is the recipient of the Best of Interop Award in the Collaboration category, for delivering video communications and collaboration on mobile devices via its recently announced VidyoMobile product. Interop Las Vegas 2011 is taking place this week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and will conclude on Thursday, May 12.

American Well Selects Vidyo for Its Online Care Suite

Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced a partnership with American Well™, whose Online Care Suite connects providers and patients for live, immediate, and clinically meaningful encounters using the Web or phone. By incorporating Vidyo’s award-winning communications and collaboration platform into the Online Care system, American Well will offer its customers a compelling new option to further enhance the highly personal, face-to-face interactions between providers and patients.