New York - Viacom's (NYSE: VIA) mtvU on Tuesday announced the launch of mtvU Campus Daily Guides, an online resource for local events, restaurants and other areas of interest on 25 U.S. college campuses. Powered by Zvents, the guides will aggregate local content from over 250 sources, and also feature headlines from mtvU's College Media Network and ratings from RateMyProfessors.com. Users and local performers will also be able to add and promote their own events and activities.

New York - Viacom's mtvU college network and partner Cisco on Wednesday launched five online applications developed by college students as part of their Digital Incubator program, which provides up to $250,000 in grants each year to students' interactive projects. The winning projects include RapHappy (NYU), a mobile phone-based hip-hop community; Osiris (Brown), which creates music videos using lyrics and images pulled from Flickr; Casablanca (NYU), a mobile party game; Selectricity (M.I.T.), an online communal ranking technology; and How Do I Say This? (UCLA), a Web-based advice wiki.

New York - Viacom's mtvU campus network and partner Cisco Systems on Monday announced the five student group recipients of $30,000 grants in their "Digital Incubator" program, aimed at "pioneering the next generation of digital applications and content." The projects include elements of social networking, mobile games, online interactivity, affinity-based websites and short-form broadband programming. Now in its second year, the program this year will encourage grant recipients to submit a detailed business plan and pitch MTV and Cisco executives for a supplemental grant of up to $100,000.

New York - MTV Networks' mtvU campus TV network said on Thursday that it has partnered with Internet video distributor ROO Group, to offer a video player and customizable video channels to the more than 500 online college newspapers in mtvU's College Publisher network. The private-label video players have access to news, sports and entertainment content from providers like the Associated Press and Reuters.

New York - Viacom's mtvU campus music TV network announced on Thursday that it has partnered with the Kaiser Family Foundation to launch a contest that seeks the best concept for a Web-based video game that will raise HIV/AIDS awareness among 15-24 year-olds in the U.S.

New York - mtvU, a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks, announced on Wednesday that it will acquire RateMyProfessors.com, a site with over 6.6 million user-generated ratings on more than 900,000 college professors.