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In Netflix's bid for a flagship original drama of its own - a "Sopranos" to its HBO - the subscription streaming service is presenting a high-class adaptation of a British politica... More

Discovery is turning to AOL in a bid to extend the reach of its new original web video programs and to market its TV shows to new audiences by using short clips. A new syndication ... More

The Video Electronics Standards Association today announced the completion of requirements for the Display Stream Compression Standard, which is anticipated to be published in late... More

Twitter didn’t explain the reasoning behind its six-second video limit in an official announcement of Vine on Wednesday, but it’s easy to see what Twitter is trying to do if yo... More

As promised, Sony's delivering its web accessible Sony Entertainment Network store before the end of January, today lighting up the store for North Americans and Brazilians. Beyond... More

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va) reintroduced his bill to study the impact of violent video games and programming on kids. But this time, the bill comes with the firepower of four co-... More

Microsoft Dynamics Retail Partners Retail Information Technology Enterprises (RITE) and Retail Automation Systems (RAS) have merged. The two unite to provide end-to-end retail soft... More

Netflix and YouTube have teamed up to launch DIAL, a protocol that helps developers of second-screen apps to discover and launch applications on smart TVs and connected devices. Th... More

Every Tuesday on Making it in America, we explore hot new trends and technology that will blow your mind! To learn about some of these latest and greatest tech trends, we invited t... More

TweetTV, the social media TV Guide, discovery tool, and Twitter-based social media platform, is launching what it calls “super responsive designed” mobile HTML5 applications th... More

Music's digital revolution may not be your father's vinyl shop, but it's not only a youth quake anymore. The takeover has spread so widely that in 2012, for the first time in histo... More

Out with the polar bears, in with the showgirls. On Tuesday, Coca-Cola launched an interactive campaign centered around its Super Bowl ad, which features cowboys, badlanders (a bik... More

Google spent considerable time discussing hardware during an earnings call yesterday. Read between the lines and it looks like Google is making a very strong commitment to Chromebo... More

Radius-TWC continued its Sundance buying binge on Wednesday, closing its fourth deal of the festival with Jacob Kornbluth's documentary "Inequality for All" and kicking off what's ... More

While pay-TV operators around the world are getting keener and keener on offering multi-screen video services to their customers, content licensing remains the single biggest hurdl... More

175 million Tweets. 2.7 billion “Likes.” When it comes to social media, the data is pouring in – and those numbers are just per day! As the public’s use of social media gro... More

In the U.S., Netflix gained more than 2 million members in Q4, ending the year with more than 27 million domestic members. A major kudos on the domestic front is that the company s... More

Yep, that was Twitter CEO Dick Costolo using video from Vine, the video-sharing startup he bought last fall, in a tweet he sent out today. And yes, that means Vine is ready to go. ... More

Don't like the price you're seeing on a coffee maker or a toothbrush? Try waiting five minutes. That lesson is starting to dawn on consumers as retailers embrace technologies that ... More