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Few independent films get seen, let alone make money. But IndieFlix is looking to change that — one app at a time — by putting its library of titles in front of more audiences ... More

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings that enable the processing of video in the cloud are quickly becoming an area of considerable interest, with two US firms revealing new offe... More

A new study released by a U.K.-based industry intelligence firm says pay TV revenues in Asia-Pacific will increase by $2.1 billion by the end of 2013 -- and will grow by a whoppi... More

Ericsson AB is in talks to buy Microsoft Corp.’s IPTV business, which makes software used by phone companies such as AT&T Inc. to deliver television over the Internet, people... More

Hard core gamers will still buy the new gaming consoles, even though they have a lot more gaming options available and will spread out their gaming on multiple devices.  The bigge... More

The next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could face a high-stakes and politically explosive decision. If a federal court strikes down the commission's net n... More

If you’re a Dish Network subscriber that happens to have a Dish Hopper DVR and likes basketball, you will love this. Dish has announced a new second-screen and mobile app experie... More

Rovi Corporation, driving digital entertainment innovation, today announced that Hubee, a major supplier of multi-screen entertainment solutions for service providers, has selected... More

While television was once considered a passive activity, mobile technology has since turned media consumption into a busier pastime, with consumers constantly switching from screen... More

Daniel Danker, the BBC executive responsible for the hugely successful iPlayer online TV catch-up service, is leaving the corporation after three years to join Shazam. Danker will ... More

Let's call it the baby sitter's dilemma. If you go to someone's house and pick up the TV remote, chances are, you won't know how it works. You know the situation's bad when even a ... More

There's a slew of new entertainment formats coming to the market from Endemol, among them Does Someone Have to Go, a fly-on-the-wall series set in the workplace. Does Someone Have ... More

Home entertainment used to be so simple. With VHS it was the movie. DVDs opened the door to commentaries, deleted scenes and any number of bonuses that could fit on a single (or du... More

Companies like Google, Twitter and Nielsen — who respectively make money from digital advertising, want to make a lot more from digital ads, and get paid to provide data to justi... More

The Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 may not see a second screen impact their respective systems, but it certainly looks like that innovation Nintendo brought with the Wii U is something... More

Tapping into mobile marketing’s potential and using it to achieve business success continues to be a highly contested topic. From botched QR code attempts and SMS disasters to ig... More

The sale of bankrupt Blockbuster U.K. to a private equity group could pave the way for the deployment of thousands of Blockbuster-branded kiosks currently sitting idle in storage i... More

Intel Corp. is making progress in talks with Time Warner Inc., NBC Universal and Viacom Inc. to obtain TV shows and films for a first-of-its kind online pay-TV service, according t... More

Suppliers of customer premises equipment (CPE) for the broadband market had their best year ever in 2012, with revenues increasing 13% to reach US$ 7.7bn, spurred on by particular... More