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Both companies capture the signals of TV broadcasters including CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox and deliver them to subscribers online. Both enterprises have been defending lawsuits against ... More

The global fixed broadband market generated service revenues of US$ 188bn in 2012, up 7% from 2011, and is set to continue growing to reach US$ 251bn by 2018, according to US firm ... More

Gabe Newell's wide-ranging keynote at the DICE Summit this morning didn't include any big announcements. But Newell did provide some tantalizing hints about how Valve is thinking a... More

I was intrigued—and a bit confused—by a radio segment on the Daine Rehm Show Tuesday debating an FCC plan for free nationwide WiFi using low-frequency “white space” spectru... More

The mobile opportunity is of course colossal and the ubiquity of mobiles devices indiscriminate of geography means the mobile channel is able to penetrate an ever far-reaching glob... More

Matthias Kurth, Executive Chairman of trade body Cable Europe, has suggested that the cable industry is well positioned to play a role in the delivery of OTT services and would con... More

Google Inc.'s YouTube has a familiar problem: Plenty of illegally uploaded movies are finding their way onto the website. Hundreds of full-length feature films including blockbuste... More

Under the new agreement, FilmFlex will invest in the development, roll-out and management of next generation video-on-demand (VoD) services, as well as procuring and curating film ... More

Google Inc must extend its offer made last week to pay French publishers for use of their content to all media companies across Europe, the head of the European Publishers Council ... More

Watching television while also using a smartphone or tablet is one of the most popular leisure activities of the mobile era. The mobile industry is working hard to create mobile ap... More

Last year GetGlue launched a new iPad app and website with a social program guide, activity feeds and community features. Today, they’ve bought that functionality to the iPhone. ... More

Consumers will eventually pay less for entertainment streamed to smaller devices, with studios and distributors basing prices on the size of the destination device, movie mogul Jef... More

Another Super Bowl Sunday has come and gone, and in addition to the Baltimore Ravens, this year's winners include halftime headliner Beyoncé, commercial fan-favorite Budweiser and... More

Twitter is acquiring social TV analytics firm Bluefin Labs – but why is it interested in bringing the big data company onboard? Well, close to two thirds of UK Twitter users use ... More

Already airborne with an inflight entertainment channel, Virgin Produced is taking its programming on the road through mobile devices. Richard Branson's production shingle has deve... More

The BBC achieved another landmark first with the launch of a new second-screen Top Gear app for BBC Worldwide viewers when the new series of the show kicked off this month. Called ... More

The U.S. Postal Service’s Feb. 6 announcement that it will suspend Saturday residential mail delivery beginning Aug. 5 to save $2 billion annually in costs barely elicited a yawn... More

How big is the smartphone market? Try these numbers on for size: from 1997 to 2012, there were 1.038 billion smartphones in use, enough for 1 for for every 6.7 people on the planet... More

Some companies talk about being mobile. Google, on the other hand, is finished talking and is acting in the biggest way possible. By transforming its AdWords system, Google is enha... More