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The Rolling Stones and TV producer Endemol, in partnership with live entertainment promoter Dainty Group, on Tuesday unveiled the global launch of the band's first-ever app. The fr... More

Red Bee Media has struck a multi-year deal to supply live subtitles for ESPN UK’s live sports network, beginning this month. The deal marks the first time that ESPN UK’s live s... More

Over the last five years fantasy sports have skyrocketed in popularity. From football and basketball to auto-racing and golf, fantasy leagues, teams and drafts have become engraine... More

Mobovivo today announced an agreement with Alliance Films that means the Canadian movie distribution company will use Mobovivo’s web and app video platform for delivering films t... More

Dual-Screen gaming appears to be the next forefront for the medium to explore. This year at E3 everyone was eager to show their own take on the concept. Sony boasts dual-functional... More

The burgeoning market for Social TV apps and services is a legitimate phenomenon with significant potential, but requires a deft hand to engage viewers on second-screen devices wit... More

Check-ins, likes, tweets and clicks? Those are so 2011. There's something new coming to the emerging field of so-called "social TV": business. For months, dabblers in this new medi... More

Questar Inc. plans on bringing more than half of its 5,000-plus catalog of titles to approximately 30 digital outlets by June 2013, which the company says would make it the largest... More

Janus Friis is slowly taking the wraps off his new service Vdio – and it turns out that it’s not a Netflix killer at all: The company just launched a private beta test in the U... More

The Walt Disney Co. is shutting down its Web movie service, Disney Movies Online, saying the site wasn’t keeping up with user demands...... More

Pay-TV continues to dominate the US home entertainment industry, with 86 per cent of homes paying a regular fee to receive linear TV channel broadcasts, and revenues rising 4.3 per... More

five years ago today— Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos appeared before a group of journalists and publishing executives at the W Hotel in lower Manhattan to introduce something ... More

Nintendo has confirmed that the Wii U’s software patch that is necessary to access most of the game console’s online features will take more than a hour for customers to downlo... More

According to Ofcom research, 47% of Internet users in the UK were not sure if the content they accessed online in the three-month period from May to July 2012 was legal...... More

The European Commission wants to make it easier for digital services to offer content across the bloc’s national borders. Now research examines whether citizens want it as much a... More

The myth holds that advertisers can’t track users on smartphones like they can on PCs. But that’s not entirely true...... More

ESPN and Microsoft officially launched WatchESPN for the Xbox 360 game console, with the full lineup of the sports programmer’s TV Everywhere service -- but it’s currently avai... More

Transitions like the one the video game industry is experiencing — the shift from physical media to digital downloads and streaming — happen slowly. But its effects can send wa... More

You won't find them pontificating on panels or mingling at parties in Cannes, but the DVD buyers for the U.K.'s supermarkets are now among the most important players in the British... More