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Rackspace has made another acquisition to bolster its developer and niche cloud capabilities, with a deal Thursday for application error tracking tool provider Exceptional Cloud Se... More

Many brands—Capital One, Dove Men's Care, Nike and Buick, to name a few—were at the ready last weekend for March Madness, purchasing Promoted Tweets in real time around the ups... More

Magic Ruby, the leader in delivering monetizable content and immersive applications for the second screen, has been appointed to create the second screen companion application for ... More

Fox Networks has been experimenting with second-screen apps for more than a year, and the company's conclusion from its work in the space is that second-screen apps are not a passi... More

Starz is leaning heavily on media-services outfit Deluxe to power its Play-branded suite of TV Everywhere online services and apps. Deluxe Digital Distribution provides processing,... More

Wednesday afternoon at GDC 2013 (game developers conference) in San Francisco, Microsoft provided some background information on its second screen Xbox 360 experience, called Smart... More

On the second day of SES New York, Twitter’s Vice President of Global Brand Strategy Joel Lunenfeld spoke about the evolving world of Twitter marketing and how the social network... More

Madness reigned on the social TV rankings this week. The NCAA men's basketball tournament accounted for 15 of the 20 top programs on cable and broadcast. More than half of the firs... More

When the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 3, an average of 108.4 million people tuned into the game on CBS. While they watched, 5.3 mi... More

Participant Media, the company behind films such as “Good Night and Good Luck,” “Lincoln” and “The Help,” is launching a new cable TV channel, “Pivot.” The channel ... More

Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Redbox have agreed to extend their DVD rental arrangement through the end of 2014. The extension keeps new-release discs from the studio on... More

French video sharing website Dailymotion attracted a record number of viewers for its live screening of the football match between France and Spain earlier this week, with 80,000 U... More

Google has started trialling a same-day delivery service to rival Amazon Prime and eBay Now, called Google Shopping Express, in San Francisco. Testers will be given a free six-mon... More

Sporting News will add online highlight clips as part of a new business deal. Parent company American City Business Journals and digital video provider Perform will work together o... More

Online streaming software developer MediaMall Technologies said its PlayOn software is now able to access Redbox Instant, enabling viewers to leverage the on-demand video rental se... More

A new games console which industry experts say could disrupt the industry has begun shipping to customers. The Ouya costs $99 (£65) and runs on Google's Android operating system. ... More

An escalating cyberattack involving an antispam group and a shadowy group of attackers has now affected millions of people across the Internet, raising the question: How can such a... More

‘Pay TV Lite’ OTT services from traditional platform operators like Viasat, with its standalone subscription for on-demand content using Viaplay, and BSkyB, with its NOW TV bra... More

New research from Experian has found that the UK is an online video hotspot with Internet users making over a billion visits a month to video sites, a 16% year-on-year increase. Th... More