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Already being dubbed the "Tablet Christmas" in London as retailers are seeing tablets fly off the shelves and into shoppers baskets at the rate of 1 per second, there is a large su... More

Four out of 10 Americans have connected their TV to the Internet, according to a new Forrester study. If you’re just talking about the whippersnappers in the 18-to-32 age bracket... More

Nearly 75% of consumers who subscribe to a video-on-demand service such as Netflix said they will “definitely” continue using the platform, despite the existence of alternative... More

Second-screen infrastructure company Magic Ruby has joined Delivery Agent’s TV Wallet developer program, enabling Magic Ruby to add commerce capabilities to its projects. The two... More

The term social TV gets bandied about with great relish by those who want to be part of what Michael Lewis once called “the new, new thing.” Everyone from gurus and ninjas to V... More

Already available on iOS and Android, second screen social TV app zeebox is now available on BlackBerry smartphones, launching on the BlackBerry App World today. Supported by devic... More

Xbox Live has added another way for sports fans to indulge their passion. Its new Sports Picks app lists college football, NBA and UFC events, and invites people to make and share ... More

The second screen's impact across the entire video space was pretty hard to ignore in 2012. Sometimes inaccurately called TV Everywhere, second screen TV was more about offering th... More

Stevie, the quirkily-named, TV-focused startup that emerged from Microsoft’s Azure Accelerator in Israel earlier this year, has announced a $1.5m Series-A funding round and the l... More

Nielsen’s recent announcement they were working directly with Twitter to establish a social TV measurement had some sounding alarm bells for the broader social TV analytics space... More

Google Play is on a growth spurt, but Apple is still tops in app sales. Over the past four months, Google's app store saw its daily sales jump by 43 percent across the 20 countries... More

Sometimes, it seems like sports are impervious to the Internet. Long before anyone had heard of social media, sports — both in the stadium and on TV — has been a social experie... More

After declining to comment when word on some of its pilot orders got out, Amazon Studios, the original film and series production arm of Amazon.com, today announced its first origi... More

Mobile games have gotten rid of a lot of the extra things that have grown up around games - the lengthy cinematic intro, long tutorial modes, big cut scenes. Mobile games have to c... More

Interactive TV vendor OpenTV, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Kudelski Group, filed a patent-infringement lawsuit Wednesday against Netflix, alleging that Netflix infringes seven... More

Why personal computers still need the keyboard and mouse, despite Microsoft's best efforts to kill them off...... More

The TV industry could be in for a rude awakening given the progress being made on programming for digital platforms--if the panelists at the Hollywood Radio & Television Societ... More

Internet ad spend grew 18 percent year-over-year to nearly $9.3 billion during the third quarter, per the Interactive Advertising Bureau's U.S.-based numbers announced today. The s... More

When it launches in the second quarter of next year, Redbox Instant by Verizon promises to be the first real contender to Netflix’s lucrative hybrid streaming-disc-rental option ... More