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Pandora Caps Mobile Streaming As Ad Revenue Falls Short (AdAge)

Pandora is placing a 40-hour-per-month limit on free mobile listening, company founder Tim Westergren announced in a blog post on Wednesday. The decision is designed to move Pandor... More

Mobile Operators Could Have A Bigger Role In Video (Videonet)

Mobile operators have the chance to carve out a bigger role for themselves in the video market by working with content providers to guarantee a much better Quality of Experience fo... More

Time Warner Cable and DirecTV Support Cablevison in Viacom Fight (Los Angeles Times)

Pay-TV distributors Time Warner Cable and DirecTV have come out in support of Cablevision Systems Corp.'s lawsuit against Viacom Inc. The battle is over how Viacom, parent of more ... More

Convenience, Demos Drive In-Store Traffic: Report (TWICE)

A study of showrooming in CE retail stores found that convenience and live product displays are the two top drivers of brick-and-mortar traffic. Price was ranked third in importa... More

Sprint and Telefonica In Mobile Ad Alliance (Rethink Wireless)

Sprint Nextel has united with Telefonica to create one of the largest mobile advertising partnerships in the world. The two firms will work together to allow global brands to reach... More

Videology Touts Addressable Advertising Breakthrough for Mobile Video (Beet.TV)

Videology, the video advertising services company, has found the "Holy Grail," the means to serve deeply addressable advertising into mobile and other digital devices, says Rich As... More

CBS Eyes Creating Original SVOD Shows (HMM)

CBS Corp. is considering producing original programming for Netflix and other subscription video-on-demand services, an executive told an investor group. Speaking Feb. 26 at the Mo... More

New FetchTV Boxes Arrive For iiNet Subs (IPTV News)

Australian broadband provider iiNet has introduced new-look set-top boxes for its IPTV service, offering a new slimline look, faster processor and increased memory. The new boxes a... More

Could TiVo And Roku Beat Apple To TV Nirvana? (Forbes)

While Apple remains apparently stymied in its attempt to remake the television business, makers of TV add-on devices are slowly and quietly worming their way toward a new world of ... More

Vodafone ‘Will Be In TV’ (Advanced Television)

Vodafone will launch new services including pay TV, CEO Vittorio Colao has told the Mobile World Congress. Colao confirmed Vodafone would launch ‘unified’ service packages and ... More

Google Music Streaming Would Boost Industry, Says Universal Executive (The Guardian)

Google's plans to launch a music-streaming service would give the record industry a welcome boost on its path to recovery, according to a digital executive at Universal Music Group... More

Fox Launches New Digital Content Syndication Network (2nd Screen Society)

Fox Broadcasting Company today announced that it is launching a new, first-of-its-kind syndication network that will distribute FOX’s custom sync-to-broadcast experiences – cur... More

Cablevision Sues Viacom for Bundling Channels (Wall Street Journal)

Cablevision Systems Corp. said it filed an antitrust lawsuit against Viacom Inc., alleging the entertainment company forced it to carry more than a dozen "lesser-watched" channels ... More

Jargon Technologies Launches JargonTalk 2.0 (M&E Daily)

Jargon Technologies announced the launch of JargonTalk 2.0, a cross-platform technology that enables advanced interactive applications which run on a multitude of devices. Building... More

YuMe Named Winner in First Digital Video AD Unit Competition from IAB Rising Stars Series (MarketWire)

YuMe, a leading provider of digital video brand advertising solutions, has been named a winner in the 2013 Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Digital Video Rising Stars competiti... More

Rovi Unveils Innovative Technologies to Drive HEVC, Multi-Screen Interactivity and New Mobile Revenue Streams (Nasdaq)

Rovi Corporation, driving digital entertainment innovation, will be showcasing new technologies at Mobile World Congress (stand #7182 in hall seven of the Fira Gran Via) that are d... More

How Never.no’s Creating Social TV Advertising (Lost Remote)

Back in November, Never.No launched a social TV ad platform to reach multiple screens. Now they’re proving that what they’ve created can work. “We’re creating social TV adv... More

Time Warner Using Eye Tracking Devices to Study How Second Screen Devices Impact TV Viewing (FierceCable)

Time Warner Inc. said Monday that it is conducting a lab study that uses eye tracking devices to gauge the impact that smartphones and tablets have on TV viewing. The media giant s... More

Twitter: The Second Screen That We Can’t Live Without (Business2Community)

With more than 280 million active users, Twitter remains one of the top social networks in terms of global engagement. Twitter has become the go-to source for microblogging – sho... More