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Twitter is acquiring social TV analytics firm Bluefin Labs – but why is it interested in bringing the big data company onboard? Well, close to two thirds of UK Twitter users use ... More

Already airborne with an inflight entertainment channel, Virgin Produced is taking its programming on the road through mobile devices. Richard Branson's production shingle has deve... More

The BBC achieved another landmark first with the launch of a new second-screen Top Gear app for BBC Worldwide viewers when the new series of the show kicked off this month. Called ... More

The U.S. Postal Service’s Feb. 6 announcement that it will suspend Saturday residential mail delivery beginning Aug. 5 to save $2 billion annually in costs barely elicited a yawn... More

How big is the smartphone market? Try these numbers on for size: from 1997 to 2012, there were 1.038 billion smartphones in use, enough for 1 for for every 6.7 people on the planet... More

Some companies talk about being mobile. Google, on the other hand, is finished talking and is acting in the biggest way possible. By transforming its AdWords system, Google is enha... More

Mobile social video apps have been getting a lot of attention lately — if not for their porn problems, then for their sheer quantity. Now Qwiki’s getting in on the craze. It cl... More

Few cable subscribers realize it, but each time they switch channels, their TV provider makes a note of it. Today, that data is primarily used for internal research and to inform r... More

Digital content ecosystem UltraViolet is gaining momentum and is set to roll out in further European countries in 2013, according to Jeff Bewkes, Chairman and Chief Executive Offic... More

The inexorable rise of digital music, blamed by many for the collapse of high street retailer HMV, continues unabated in the UK, according to new figures. Almost one in five consum... More

The media planning and buying process is increasingly failing to keep abreast of technology developments and consumer behavior, still relying on the traditional metrics of reach an... More

Amazon has won a patent to create a virtual marketplace where users could resell digital content like apps, songs and ebooks. But it’s unclear whether such a marketplace would be... More

Could this be the beginning of the end of the used game market? According to online reports, Microsoft Corp.’s next Xbox console may eliminate the market for pre-owned games by ... More

Redbox Instant by Verizon will launch the beta of its streaming service on the Xbox 360, as the company that put tall red kiosks of DVDs in your neighborhood supermarket joins the ... More

Gannett’s fourth quarter earnings report this week put to rest the idea that digital paid subscriptions will only work for the biggest newspaper organizations like The New York T... More

Always ahead of the pack in new technologies, Japanese cellco NTT Docomo is already planning to introduce smartphones featuring the newly agreed HEVC standard for video compression... More

On the one hand the demand for video-on-the-move is growing exponentially says a new report from Juniper Research. Juniper says the number of users of mobile video calling services... More

In addition to the new moniker, the service has also undergone several other changes aimed at improving the customer experience, Rob Hyatt, AT&T's executive director of marketi... More

A new report suggests that IPTV providers are poised to take an 18 per cent slice of the global Pay TV market by 2018. The worldwide Pay TV market grew steadily in 2012 to generate... More