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Companies like Google, Twitter and Nielsen — who respectively make money from digital advertising, want to make a lot more from digital ads, and get paid to provide data to justi... More

3D tech developer Sensio Technologies said Monday that it has signed a 3D video-on-demand (VOD) licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures to make select 3D movies available for o... More

Content providers are no strangers to the free versus fee debate, but over the past few years some newcomers have entered into the fray. Third-party companies have started offering... More

In an interview with Le Figaro France Telecom Orange has said it is looking for a strong partner in Dailymotion. Stéphane Richard, CEO, Orange, said the operator wants to remain a... More

Online video cloud content services provider Brightcove has announced the availability of its Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding service designed to remove the barriers to multiscreen... More

Amid plummeting DVD sales, home-entertainment revenue industry-wide has dropped nearly 20% in the past five years. Computers, tablets and smartphones offer new ways to sell enterta... More

The future prosperity of Google and other online aggregators in Europe might depend on how German courts define snippets, the one or two sentences taken from websites and displayed... More

The data doesn't lie. The web is shifting from text to video. And that means that video will touch every part of what is now the Internet. With collaborative content creation and c... More

Call it academic arbitrage. Supap Kirtsaeng, a Thai student who earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Southern California, made as much as $1.2m with some basic maths.... More

Video site Blip is looking to increase the ad load on the content it’s hosting by making advertising mandatory. The changes are going in effect early next month. Publishers will ... More

DVD and games rental chain Blockbuster has been sold to restructuring specialists Gordon Brothers Europe, its administrators have said. The move raises the likelihood 2,000 jobs an... More

According to two sources briefed on the company's plans, Spotify intends to become an on-demand music and video service – one that would invest in original content and compete... More

Apple has bought WifiSLAM, a company providing indoor mobile location services, which lets people figure out their location inside a building using the strength of its Wi-Fi signal... More

Like lots of other Big Media companies, Viacom has seen a flood of new revenue show up from digital services in the past few years, primarily via Netflix and Viacom. At first blush... More

Publishers are concerned: The shift to mobile advertising revenue is lagging way behind the transfer of users to smartphones and tablets. Solutions are coming, but it might take a ... More

Understanding the pools of information pouring into the databases of Starbucks has become a major focus at the international brew chain, even though its high-profile CEO doesn't mu... More

HBO has signed a five-year renewal of a services contract with Clearleap, which will continue to process and distribute multiple formats of the premium network's subscription video... More

Many magazines, which initially packed their tablet editions with interactive features, have had to curb them in the face of a growing (and costly) number of devices to develop fo... More

Analog-era minds have a hard time processing a key product of the digital era: the staggering amount of information being created, collected and correlated. What's called "big data... More