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Hollywood studios will eventually charge less for entertainment streamed to small devices, basing prices on screen size, DreamWorks Animation SKG CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg predicted. ... More

Think of “mobile first” companies, and Instagram should top that list. It rose to prominence as one of the fastest-growing mobile-only companies over the past few years, and is... More

Twitter has acquired Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics company that was founded in 2008, sources say. Although we don't know the exact acquisition price, we were told this is Twi... More

Among the many Super Bowl commercials with second-screen tie-ins this year, my hat is off to Coca-Cola for its Coke Chase sequence. Much like last year’s use of Polar Bears acros... More

Authenticated subscribers of Time Warner Cable and DirecTV can now catch all of the Los Angeles Lakers games on their iOS devices, home computers, and Android tablets and phones. T... More

Sundance Channel is planning a fun social push tied to some of the network’s original programs. Not content to simply create a generic second-screen experience, the AMC Networks-... More

When Barbosa family members botched their cover of an old Brazilian gospel song last year on a family video, they thought it was pretty funny—funny enough to upload to YouTube. B... More

There is no shortage of second screen applications consumers can access while watching television—and the landscape is likely to become even more cluttered with start-ups. Indeed... More

In the first of a series on mobile advertising as part of The Drum's Mobile supplement, here we take a look at the trend of dual screening and its impact on mobile advertising. Wit... More

London-based Virgin Media Feb. 5 acknowledged it is in acquisitions talks with Liberty Global, the international cable unit of Englewood, Colo.-based Liberty Media. Liberty Media r... More

While much of the MPEG DASH discussion has focused on what that adaptive streaming standard will bring publishers, operators are anticipating it for other reasons. Speaking at the ... More

Facing a relentless onslaught from tablets, smartphones and solid state drives (SSD), global hard disk drive (HDD) market revenue in 2013 will decline by about 12 percent this year... More

Internet use fell in U.S. homes but soared inside the Superdome during this year's Super Bowl. AT&T's mobile network in the Superdome got a workout, carrying 388GB of data over... More

Ouya, the Android-based Kickstarter phenom that raised over $8.5 million from the community, will be available at a wide range of retailers in June. Speaking to the Wall Street Jou... More

In our age of the dual television and smartphone screen, watching Twitter during live events has become intertwined with the actual watching of the broadcast itself. You can always... More

Can Twitter capitalize on the social-TV craze it helped ignite? As the backchannel chatter showed during the Super Bowl Sunday night, Twitter and TV have become almost inseparable,... More

Amoeba Records' new out-of-print music service, Vinyl Vaults, proves a deep knowledge of the industry it cherishes. But the much-loved music store's archive of obscure classics is ... More

Disney Interactive and music video and entertainment platform VEVO have announced plans to join forces and create "family-friendly music and video experiences," according to a pres... More

Sony introduced the first MiniDisc player in 1992. The audio players were small enough to fit in the palm of a hand. The optical discs, which had their own enclosures, supported di... More