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Advanced Advertising: Zeebox Aims to Build One Second Screen App to Rule Them All (Multichannel News)
With dozens of show-specific second screen apps fighting for consumers’ attention, Zeebox is aiming to be the Swiss Army knife of them all, integrating discovery, social, informa... More
Turner Broadcasting Selects Digital Rapids’ Kayak Workflow Platform for Multi-Screen Media Operations (PR Newswire)
Digital Rapids announced today that Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) has chosen the Kayak™ dynamic workflow platform as the technology foundation to power Turner's me... More
Second Screen Experiences: Using Your Tablet with Your TV (Geek.com)
If you’re the type to hop on the couch and tune in for some prime time, chances are pretty good that your smartphone or tablet are sitting right there next to you. In fact, you p... More
Poor Home Entertainment Numbers Don’t Hurt Viacom Profit (HMM)
A 32% drop in home entertainment revenues year over year didn’t prevent Paramount parent Viacom from posting a profit of $650 million for its fiscal fourth quarter (ended Sept. 3... More
Adobe Targets Digital Television Industry with “Project Primetime” (Beet.TV)
To help broadcasters deal with device proliferation, Adobe expanded its Project Primetime platform with both the addition of an ad insertion option and a new player technology that... More
Brightcove CEO Slams Facebook, Wants End To “Wars” Over Platforms (GigaOm)
The fragmentation of the mobile environment into proprietary development platforms threatens the overall app economy by straining the labor market, says Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allai... More
New Tech Could Boost HDD Capacity Fivefold (Gizmag)
A team of researchers at the University of Texas is working on a novel design that could circumvent some of the pressing limitations of current data storage technology and open the... More
OTT Video To Be Worth Over US$37bn In 2017 (IP&TV)
A major new report from Informa Telecoms & Media has found that over-the-top (OTT) video will be worth more than US$37bn globally in 2017 – a big figure no doubt, but put int... More
One-Blue Signs 2 Replicators To BD Patent Pool (TWICE)
Optical disc replicators PrimeDisc Marketing and Bestdisc Technology have joined the One-Blue Blu-Ray Disc (BD) product licensing program as licensees, One-Blue LLC said Wednesday.... More
Ooyala: Tablet TV Gains Momentum (Advanced TV)
Viewers are flocking online for live and premium entertainment and news, according to video streaming and monetisation platform provider Ooyala ... More
FCC’s Genachowski Circulates Media Ownership Order (Adweek)
There was no doubt that the Federal Communications Commission would wait until after the election to deal with the always controversial review of media ownership rules that have be... More
“Six Strikes” System Goes Live This Fall, Appeals To Cost $35 (Ars Technica)
The Center for Copyright Information has revealed more details about its "six strikes" system, which it calls the Copyright Alert System (CAS). In a blog post published Thursday m... More
MESA Cited In Fox Apps Story (LA Times)
Guy Finley, executive director of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance trade group, said an application developed for the FX show "Sons of Anarchy" -- which viewers used... More
TiVo Inks Tebow For Ad Campaign (TWICE)
TiVo said Wednesday it has signed on New York Jets quarterback-in-waiting Tim Tebow to take the snap in a national advertising and integrated social media campaign...... More
Can Hollywood Make the Cut at YouTube? (Variety)
Hollywood has yet to produce a top draw among YouTube's inaugural programming partners, but there's probably enough traction for some to command a second round of funding from Goog... More
BSkyB “Exploring” Rebranding Roku Boxes (IP&TV)
Bloomberg reports that UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB is working together with US firm Roku to build a set-top box that can deliver its new over-the-top (OTT) video service ‘Now ... More
Living With the Xbox 360: How Microsoft’s Trojan Horse Took Over Your Living Room (The Verge)
A seven-year-old gaming console has evolved into a top contender for the web TV crow ... More
Harris Poll: 53% of Americans Have Streamed a TV Show (HMM)
More than half of the country’s television viewers have streamed a program over the Internet via a connected device, according to new data from The Harris Poll. Yet, 90% of respo... More
Square: We’re Going To Be The “Remote Control For Commerce” (GigaOm)
Square has had a whirlwind year, inking a deal with Starbucks, raising $200 million and pushing its annualized processing rate to $10 billion. Now it’s looking ahead to 2013, whe... More
