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Aggregating Social Key to Second Screen Experiences (Cable Fax)
There is no shortage of second screen applications consumers can access while watching television—and the landscape is likely to become even more cluttered with start-ups. Indeed... More
Mobile Advertising: How Can Advertisers Capitalise On the Second Screen? (The Drum)
In the first of a series on mobile advertising as part of The Drum's Mobile supplement, here we take a look at the trend of dual screening and its impact on mobile advertising. Wit... More
Analyst: Liberty Media’s Interest in Virgin Media has SVOD Implications (HMM)
London-based Virgin Media Feb. 5 acknowledged it is in acquisitions talks with Liberty Global, the international cable unit of Englewood, Colo.-based Liberty Media. Liberty Media r... More
Ericsson: MPEG DASH Makes Economic Sense to Operators (Streaming Media)
While much of the MPEG DASH discussion has focused on what that adaptive streaming standard will bring publishers, operators are anticipating it for other reasons. Speaking at the ... More
Hard Disk Drive Market Revenue Set For Double-Digit Decline (SolidState Technology)
Facing a relentless onslaught from tablets, smartphones and solid state drives (SSD), global hard disk drive (HDD) market revenue in 2013 will decline by about 12 percent this year... More
Mobile Data Use Soared At The Super Bowl This Year (CITIWorld)
Internet use fell in U.S. homes but soared inside the Superdome during this year's Super Bowl. AT&T's mobile network in the Superdome got a workout, carrying 388GB of data over... More
Ouya Preorders Start Today; Retail Availability Set For June (cnet)
Ouya, the Android-based Kickstarter phenom that raised over $8.5 million from the community, will be available at a wide range of retailers in June. Speaking to the Wall Street Jou... More
How Social Media Is Becoming As Important A Live Event As The Live Event Itself (GigaOm)
In our age of the dual television and smartphone screen, watching Twitter during live events has become intertwined with the actual watching of the broadcast itself. You can always... More
Twitter's Purchase of Bluefin Labs: A Play to Make Social-TV Craze Into a Business (AdAge)
Can Twitter capitalize on the social-TV craze it helped ignite? As the backchannel chatter showed during the Super Bowl Sunday night, Twitter and TV have become almost inseparable,... More
Vinyl Vault Lights Fuse On Copyright Time Bomb—But Is It Armed? (BoingBoing)
Amoeba Records' new out-of-print music service, Vinyl Vaults, proves a deep knowledge of the industry it cherishes. But the much-loved music store's archive of obscure classics is ... More
Music Videos Foster Disney, VEVO Collaboration
Disney Interactive and music video and entertainment platform VEVO have announced plans to join forces and create "family-friendly music and video experiences," according to a pres... More
Sony Quits Manufacturing the 21-Year-Old MiniDisc Player (TechHive)
Sony introduced the first MiniDisc player in 1992. The audio players were small enough to fit in the palm of a hand. The optical discs, which had their own enclosures, supported di... More
The Google Fund for the French Press (Monday Note)
At the last minute, ending three months of tense negotiations, Google and the French Press hammered a deal. More than yet another form of subsidy, this could mark the beginning o... More
NPD: Free Streaming on Par With SVOD (HMM)
While traditional pay TV operators and broadcast networks dominate the consumer television landscape, 12% of TV viewers streamed TV shows for free from the Internet during the past... More
Facebook to Make Targeted Ads More Transparent For Users (AdAge)
Facebook is about to get more transparent in the way it targets advertising at its users. The social network has agreed to start displaying the little blue "AdChoices" icon on its ... More
Rupert Murdoch to Spend Billions on Video Rights (The Telegraph)
The “new News Corp”, as it is currently known, has set aside $1bn to fuel the spending spree, but is understood to be in discussions to increase that figure to $3bn. It will ap... More
Standalone CableCards Rose 8% in 2012 (Multichannel News)
The nine largest cable operators in the U.S. have deployed about 600,000 standalone CableCards to date for use with TiVo DVRs and other retail devices -- an annual increase of 8% -... More
Is Streaming TV Worth The Wait? (Broadcast Engineering)
Broadcasting traditional over the air (OTA) RF is like spraying a fire hose in the dark. You’ll probably soak some viewers, hit some others with mist and maybe even get an estim... More
Amazon’s Downton Abbey Coup: Bad News For Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
If there was any doubt, it’s now clear that Netflix Inc. has some serious competition in the streaming video world. Amazon's disclosure on Friday that it has exclusive rights to ... More
