Cartoon Network

In a posting on its corporate blog, Tuesday, Verizon FiOS TV announced that it has expanded its "TV Everywhere" offering by making CNN's main US channel and Headline News (HLN) companion channel available live online to authenticated subscribers.

Verizon said last week that Time Warner is launching broadband VOD services for three more of its channels--Adult Swim, Cartoon Network and truTV--on Verizon FiOS TV Online.

GoAnimate, a company which offers an online platform that is billed as making it easy for anyone to create their own animations, announced last week that it is making its platform available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, so that companies can deploy its animation capabilities on their own Web sites in order to increase "brand interaction." "For the last year at GoAnimate.com, we have been helping major brands from hip-hop stars like Akon to major movie franchises like 'Star Trek' to give their fans an entirely new way to interact with them via their own customizable animations," GoAnimate founder and CEO, Alvin Hung, said in a prepared statement.

Turner Broadcasting announced Wednesday that it will launch a new UK Web site for its Cartoon Network children's channel, June 16th, that will heavily feature interactivity, community and personalization. Among other things, Turner says, the site will offer a social-networking service, called "My CN," that will allow children to interact "safely" with one another, using a range of pre-selected statements and messages. Visitors to the site will also be able to customize its look, using it a selection of backgrounds; choose avatars based on various Cartoon Network characters; chat with their friends; and play games to win virtual prizes.