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PeakStream launched last September with $17 million in Series B funding, helmed by executives from Nvidia, Sun Microsystems, and VMware.  Google, Inc. on Tuesday said it has acquired a startup called PeakStream that specializes in software programming tools for high performance, multi-core and parallel processors.  

In an e-mail statement, Google said, “We believe the PeakStream team’s broad technical expertise can help build products and features that will benefit our users. We look forward to providing them with additional resources as they continue developing high performance applications for modern multi-core systems.”   A Google spokesperson declined to detail the price.  Redwood Shores, Calif.-based PeakStream’s Web site has been down most of Tuesday afternoon, possibly a consequence of the acquisition news. A company spokesperson was not immediately available to comment on the purchase.

Two year-old Blip.tv, the video sharing site for independent producers, announced the closing of its series B financing, and its first venture capital investors. The financial details of this round were not disclosed. The round was led by Ambient Sound Investments while the venture capital was provided by the fund established by the four founding engineers of Skype.

Other participants in the round include Lauder Partners, Jeffrey Sechrest, Managing Director and co-head of the media and entertainment division of Lazard and Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, among others. With the recent funding, Blip.tv plans to expand on advertising sales, content management and programming, talent relations and technology development.

This is important for the furthered development of Blip’s ad program, which enables producers to create their own ad campaigns. Blip.tv is also looking to incorporate additional advertising options for content creators, and diversifying these options may be the way to go, as several video-sharing sites are experimenting with ad revenue-sharing programs.

Others dabbling in ad revenue-sharing models include Guba, Metacafe, YouTube and Revver.

Ask.com has signed blinkx, the video search engine, to be used in conjunction with its own search service.

Blinkx will provide video search results for Ask.com, giving it access to its video search library. The revenue will be split for each search that Ask.com users click on, as well as advertising when users go to media partner sites. This is not the first search engine Blinkx has partnered with. Other major search engine partners include MSN and AOL. Other partnerships include Sproose, National Geographic, ChaCha, Quintura, and LookSmart.

Blinkx has also gone ahead with its IPO, indicating its preparedness in expanding the company and becoming a recognizable standard in video search engine technology. It’s long tail approach to partnering with several other search engines is proving to be more than beneficial to Blinkx.