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At the UBS Media Summit today, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman was asked how social TV is affecting his company, which owns Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, among other networks. Da... More

Capablue, specialist in TV Everywhere solutions, has been working with Channel 4 to create a proof of concept that explores the potential of future advertising formats. The interac... More

Multiscreen specialist Elemental says its revenue base more than doubled in 2012 as the company grew its services to reach 250 customers. The BBC, Columbus Communications, Media Pr... More

Most Mondays, Jacob Geiser watches TNT's pro wrestling with buddies who are so tight they finish each other's wisecracks. But when he sinks into the couch in his Eden Prairie apart... More

Spike TV will broadcast VGA TEN live from Sony Pictures Studios on December 7 at 9:00 PM ET. The 10th anniversary of the Video Game Awards will feature Samuel L. Jackson as host fo... More

Reality shows may attract criticism over quality but they are commercially very attractive, and in aiming to monetise its assets MTV España has launched a second screen app to acc... More

He says Redbox Instant by Verizon, which will compete with Netflix, will be available by early in the second quarter, after previous estimates for a late 2012 start...... More

Don’t expect much movie rental holiday cheer before Christmas, as major studio releases represent a collective box office down nearly 65% from major releases during the previous-... More

The real opportunity around multi-screening is that it leaves the big screen to do what it does best and directs all of the interactivity and personalisation of the experience to t... More

Verizon Communications, majority owner of the biggest U.S. mobile service, is not interested in buying spectrum from Dish Network and does not plan to make big acquisitions, its to... More

Kantar Worldpanel ComTech says that Apple’s iOS recently ousted Google’s Android as the most popular smartphone OS in the U.S.? Not so, says comScore...... More

Coinstar has been taking on Blockbuster stores with its Redbox kiosks.  Now it's taking aim at Netflix on the Web...... More

There’s a lot of sky-is-falling doomsday predictions about the World Conference on International Telecommunications, which opens Monday in Dubai with some 190-plus nations discus... More

A push by Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. to combat Apple Inc.'s iPad in the $63.2 billion tablet market is getting off to a slow start ... More

A US judge has ruled that Google's Motorola unit cannot ban sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console because of a patent dispute...... More

The day before Thanksgiving, Amazon was offering a discounted price of $49.96 on a popular Xbox game, the same price as Walmart and 3 cents lower than Target. Then the holiday pric... More

Hallmark has a gift for Netflix and other subscription VOD services just in time for the holidays: competition...... More

Scopely's Travis Chen on one developer's reasoning for leaving the stagnant home hardware market behind to dive into a future of multiplayer on handsets...... More

The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a newspaper for the iPad era, is shutting down after less than two years...... More