Yahoo Inc. is reportedly planning to kill Maven Networks, a video distribution and advertising software company it paid about $160 million for in 2008.

At the beginning of last year, Yahoo made a fairly large acquisition with the purchase of online video distribution and advertising platform provider Maven Networks . Under the terms of the agreement, which we reported as a rumor the same day the papers were signed, the company acquired the startup for approximately $160 million . At the time, the press release touted the acquisition to lead to ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Blinkx, the video search engine, is getting into video distribution.