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MoviePass Coming Back, But With Whom? (Variety)

MoviePass, the $50 monthly all-you-can-watch movie ticket startup that angered exhibitors and studios with two failed attempts last year to launch behind their backs, is mounting a... More

Hollywood’s New Bible Stories (Wall Street Journal)

When it sets sail in the coming film "Noah," a massive 148-foot wooden ark will carry not only a slew of zoo animals, but one of Hollywood's biggest wagers in years...... More

As FCC Closed-Captioning Deadline Looms, Online Video Industry Largely Silent (Fierce)

The FCC deadline of Sept. 30, after which closed captioning must be provided for all online programming originally aired on TV, is coming up fast.  But will TV networks and other ... More

Why Is Pinterest Poking Around In TV Land? (Fast Company)

Fast Company has learned that the interest-sharing and soon-to-be e-commerce platform, which enables users to "pin" and share photo-tagged items online, has recently met with var... More

F.T.C. Moves to Tighten Online Privacy Protections for Children (NY Times)

Federal regulators are about to take the biggest steps in more than a decade to protect children online. The moves come at a time when major corporations, app developers and data ... More

Apple CEO Tim Cook Apologizes for Maps App (Wall Street Journal)

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook offered customers a rare apology Friday for the quality of the company's new mapping application, acknowledging the fierce level of criticism ... More

Dish Exploring Web TV Service With Viacom, Univision, Scripps (AdAge)

Dish Network is talking to networks such as Viacom's MTV about offering their channels over the internet, a service that could shift the economics of the pay-TV industry, five peop... More

NBCU, Comcast Buy Into Zeebox to Take ‘Second Screen’ Prime Time (paidContent)

Siblings Comcast Cable and NBCU, which are “lead partners”, have each invested an undisclosed sum for a minority equity stake, while NBCU will also produce in-app components to... More

Airlines Entertain Tablet Ideas (Wall Street Journal)

A growing number of air carriers are tapping into consumer technologies like tablets and wireless streaming to help them upgrade their in-flight service—without breaking the bank... More

Google and Asus Rumored To Be Working on $99 Nexus Tablet (CNET)

Could you be able to score a $99 Google Nexus tablet for Christmas this year? That's the latest from the Digitimes rumor mill, which, it should be noted, has a mixed record for... More

Verizon: Simplify the Home, Protect Fiber’s Value (Light Reading)

The fiber-to-the-home industry needs to collaboratively tackle the issue of growing complexity in the digital home, including in-home wireless, says Robert Mudge, president of cons... More

AT&T MiFi Liberate Is an All-Day LTE Hotspot and Media Server (GigaOM)

AT&T and Novatel Wireless jointly announced a next-generation mobile hotspot on Thursday: The MiFi 2 will be offered in the future as the AT&T MiFi Liberate. More of the ... More

YouTube Wants to Double Down on Mobile Music Videos (GigaOM)

YouTube is looking to expand its role in the mobile music space, making the site’s music videos discoverable by artist and genre on mobile devices, according to a recent job po... More

Not All Traffic Is Created Equal (Disruption)

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest ... More

Tech Companies Warn Privacy Rules Will Kill Innovation (The Hill)

A host of companies and trade associations are warning the Federal Trade Commission that its proposed revision to children's online privacy rules will burden tech start-ups and sti... More

Netflix iOS and Android Apps Have a Remote Control Easter Egg for PS3 Owners (Engadget)

Now that the revamped Netflix interface has hit phones and tablets for both Apple and Android powered hardware, the service has quietly enabled something else: second screen remote... More

Take Advantage of Second-Screen Game Action with SportStream for iPad (PC Mag)

If told tell me a year ago that in the future, college football teams would have giant hashtags painted in their end zones, and professional Lacrosse players would have their Twitt... More

AT&T Outs U-Verse Easy Remote App for iOS, Uses Voice and Gestures to Take Control (Engadget)

Not that much time has passed since AT&T announced it was bringing Zuckerberg's social network right to your U-verse-equipped TV, and now those with an iOS device are in for ye... More

Synacor Adds Social Login Capabilities to TV Everywhere Authentication (Lost Remote)

We originally wrote about Synacor before the company had gone public. Their technology is the glue that has allowed cable companies to provide TV content on the web, across multipl... More