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Grammys Top the 20 Most Social TV Shows of the Week (Mashable)

Actually, the Grammys soared among the most social shows of the year, much less the week. Music's biggest awards night of the year achieved the second highest social interaction in... More

Stop Worrying: More VOD Is A Good Thing For TV (Videonet)

For some time there have been concerns that if more people watch their television on-demand, overall advertising revenues in the industry will fall, because it is harder to monetiz... More

Study: Poor Online Video Quality Costly (HMM)

Global video content companies left as much as $2.16 billion on the table in 2012 due to poor online video streams, according to a new study. San Mateo, Calif.-based video streamin... More

Brands Feed Pirates, Inadvertently (Variety)

As some major online ad networks scramble to pull away from pirated content sites, more just rush in to take their place. All the while, ads for dozens of high-profile brands are s... More

Aereo CEO Thinks Plenty of People Will Pay for Free TV (All Things D)

Speaking today at D: Dive Into Media, Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia said his $12-per-month or $1-per-day service, which is currently only available in New York, is most often used for wat... More

Counting Couch Potatoes – Measuring TV Audiences Keeps Getting Harder (The Economist)

When it comes to gathering a massive audience, America’s Super Bowl shows that television can still whup other media like a linebacker arm-wrestling a mouse. On February 3rd some... More

Ericsson to Debut CDN at MWC, Emphasizes Video and Mobility (Streaming Media)

Getting a jump on Mobile World Congress news is Ericsson, which announced that it will launch a content delivery network (CDN) called the Ericsson Media Delivery Network, when the ... More

Can Dish Blow Up the Spectrum Market? (CNBC)

Charlie Ergen, the chairman of Dish Network, wants to get into the wireless business in the worst way. He's threatening to blow the market apart if he's not allowed in. Since acqui... More

AT&T Debuts Akamai-Powered CDN Solution (IPTV News)

AT&T has unveiled its new content delivery network (CDN), built by Akamai and aimed at businesses of all sizes in the US. AT&T’s CDN Service is based on the deployment of... More

Cisco ‘Walking Away From Low-Margin STB Business’ (Advanced Television)

Cisco is pressing ahead with the reshaping of its Service Provider Video Business from a low-margin set-top box business to what Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers ... More

Amazon Hungry For More CBS Content (Los Angeles Times)

Netflix, Amazon and other digital platforms may be new competition for traditional broadcast and cable networks, but they are also becoming valuable revenue sources as well. On Wed... More

Obama Administration Defends $222000 File-Sharing Verdict (Ars Technica)

The Obama Administration has stepped into a long-running file-sharing lawsuit in Minnesota, urging the United States Supreme Court not to get involved in a six-figure verdict again... More

How The Kids At Box Are Disrupting Software's Most Lucrative Game (Forbes)

Twenty months ago Aaron Levie, all of 26 years old, did something arguably foolish, undeniably gutsy and entirely counter to the prevailing mood that startups should be “lean” ... More

Beats' Curated Music Service Heading for Summer Launch (cnet)

Jimmy Iovine has worked as a producer with everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Lady Gaga over his 40-year career, and is currently chairman of Interscope Geffen-A&M. As a second... More

'House of Cards' Viewing Is Huge, but Netflix Won't Tell You or Kevin Spacey How Huge (AdAge)

Netflix's new exclusive political drama series "House of Cards," which stars Kevin Spacey, is the streaming video's service most-viewed series in all its market right now in terms ... More

Lionsgate Eyeing Larger UltraViolet Footprint (HMM)

Lionsgate Feb. 12 said it expects to expand its UltraViolet presence in 2013 as the industry-backed digital storage platform in the cloud establishes mainstream traction, COO Steve... More

Verimatrix Opens Paris R&D Base (IPTV News)

A new development centre has been opened in Paris by US firm Verimatrix as it seeks to boost product development for its video content protection solutions. The new centre will foc... More

Google’s Biz Chief: 50 Percent of Ads Will Go Online in the Next Five Years (All Things D)

Ads are part of the very fabric of our society, and have been for years. But ad execs want to stick with what works: It’s why the bulk of today’s industry ad budgets are still ... More

Sony Entertainment CEO: DVRs and Netflix Have Made TV Better (GigaOm)

Like Mad Men or Breaking Bad? Then thank TiVo and Netflix. At least that’s what Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton is doing. Lynton told the audience at All Things Digital’s... More