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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

It is turning out that consumers want to rent their music, not own it. Over a decade later the industry has come full circle and subscriptions delivered by various providers are be... 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

3D tech developer Sensio Technologies said Monday that it has signed a 3D video-on-demand (VOD) licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures to make select 3D movies available for o... More

Content providers are no strangers to the free versus fee debate, but over the past few years some newcomers have entered into the fray. Third-party companies have started offering... More

In an interview with Le Figaro France Telecom Orange has said it is looking for a strong partner in Dailymotion. Stéphane Richard, CEO, Orange, said the operator wants to remain a... More

Online video cloud content services provider Brightcove has announced the availability of its Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding service designed to remove the barriers to multiscreen... More

Amid plummeting DVD sales, home-entertainment revenue industry-wide has dropped nearly 20% in the past five years. Computers, tablets and smartphones offer new ways to sell enterta... More

The future prosperity of Google and other online aggregators in Europe might depend on how German courts define snippets, the one or two sentences taken from websites and displayed... More

The data doesn't lie. The web is shifting from text to video. And that means that video will touch every part of what is now the Internet. With collaborative content creation and c... More

Call it academic arbitrage. Supap Kirtsaeng, a Thai student who earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Southern California, made as much as $1.2m with some basic maths.... More