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In Bid for Sports Dominance, Yahoo and NBC Make Web Deal (New York Times)
Yahoo Sports and NBC Sports are tying their Web sites loosely together in an arrangement meant to give NBC more traffic online and Yahoo more promotion on television. The deal, ann... More
Verimatrix Proud to Be now TV’s Partner of Choice for Its Multi-Screen Video on Demand Service (MarketWire)
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, today announced that PCCW Limited's now TV is sec... More
How Show Runners Should Be Using Social TV, an Interview with Sons of Anarchy’s Kurt Sutter (Lost Remote)
Social TV storytelling is on the rise. Proof of this is not only from the digital executives that have gone above and beyond to bring storytelling into the marketing mix. TV creato... More
Research: 66% of Pay-TV Subs Have Multi-Screen (Advanced Television)
Low ARPUs, growing competitive threats, and rival multiscreen services are driving many pay-TV providers in Europe and Asia to explore new business strategies in video services, ac... More
On the Cusp of Second Screen Revolution (Brantford Expositor)
It's always tough to take a look into the future, particularly a tech future, when you consider that things are changing so rapidly. I'm going to tackle the challenge anyways, befo... More
Over Half of French Mobile Users Multi-Screen – Mobile Devices Changing Consumer Media Habits in France (InMobi)
InMobi, the leader in mobile-first technology platforms, and the largest independent mobile advertising network, has released its Mobile Media Consumption Report for France (survey... More
Kaleidescape, Warner Bros. Agree To Digital Distribution Deal (LA Times)
After eight years of legal battle with the entertainment industry, Kaleidescape has found a friend in Hollywood...... More
Huberty: Apple Could Sell 13 Million TV Sets at $1,060 Each (Fortune)
Opinions about whether Apple is about to enter the TV set market are about as sharply divided as Fox News and MSNBC. You're either in the Gene Munster camp (It's coming, for sure, ... More
Google’s Cloud Problems Should Terrify Enterprises (ReadWrite)
Monday's Gmail outage was not just another pain. Out-of-control code also brought down some Chrome browsers, hurting productivity for those affected. As the boundary between cloud ... More
Free Glasses Anyone? How Retailers View Social Media’s Commerce Role (Social Commerce Today)
The IBM Smarter Commerce benchmark study aside, retailers are finding meaningful ways to use social media, even if it isn’t always to sell directly...... More
Analysis: In Pixel Wars, LCD Has Staying Power, Refuses To Die (Reuters)
Liquid-crystal display (LCD) screens were expected to slowly fade and die, giving way to lighter, thinner and tougher organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels in everything from ... More
Home Entertainment Poised to Grow After 5-Year Losing Streak (The Wrap)
After five years of decline, the battered home-entertainment industry is seeing some daylight...... More
Xbox Live Adding Apps for Machinima, Flixster, More (Variety)
More TV shows and movies are coming to the Xbox videogame console...... More
Analysts: Apple TV More Promising for Europe? (Advanced TV)
Comments from two sector analysts at research firm Sanford C Bernstein suggest that any Apple TV set product may be more successful in markets outside the US, such as Europe ... More
“TV” or “Video”: A Rose By Any Other Name… (Kit Digital)
It is frequently debated nowadays whether “television” is still the right word for all the video entertainment we watch these days on a multitude of screens, given that so much... More
Supreme Court Asked to Review $222K Landmark File-Sharing Case (Wired)
Infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset asked the Supreme Court on Monday to review a jury’s conclusion that she pay the recording industry $222,000 for downloading and sharing... More
Is Redbox Instant Launch Stymied by Content Costs? (HMM)
When Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam last week indicated the movie rental joint venture dubbed “Redbox Instant by Verizon” might not bow until the second quarter in 2013, scuttlebutt... More
The Enduring Apple TV Fantasy (Monday Note)
We all want TV Done Right, free of the Soviet Era set-top box, UI and opaque contracts. We imagine Apple will put all the pieces together. But what’s desirable and “obvious” ... More
Ads in Super Bowl’s Digital ‘Second Screen’ Nearly Sold Out (AdAge)
Ad sales for what is just the second live-streaming of the Super Bowl are nearly complete, with CBSSports.com nearly sold out as advertisers seek to dangle their promotions in fron... More
