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Apple Looks Beyond Intel For Future Mac Chips (Fast Company)
Seven years after the firm started putting Intel inside its laptops and desktops, Apple is said to be looking elsewhere for future chip architecture. According to Bloomberg, the fi... More
CBS and Hulu Announce Multi-Year Deal that Brings the Network’s Content to Hulu Plus Subscribers (The Next Web)
Based on this multi-year agreement, CBS content will begin to appear starting in January 2013 and will give subscribers access to more than 2,600 episodes from its library of shows... More
Seagate Joins DECE in UltraViolet Boost (Advanced Television)
Hard disk drive and storage solutions specialist Seagate Technology has become a member of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) the open, cross-industry consortium of... More
Magine Aims To Be A Cloud Pay TV Service Without the Box (Paid Content)
Tomorrow’s pay-TV box could be a handheld device or an in-TV app, if Magine, a new Swedish service using existing consumer gadgets and cloud distribution, gets its way...... More
What’s Holding Back Ad Growth on Facebook? Marketers. (AdAge)
Many look inside Facebook for culprits that include everything from issues with monetizing mobile advertising to a lack of unified metrics...... More
Why You Can’t Vote Online Tuesday (Technology Review)
A decade and a half into the Web revolution, we do much of our banking and shopping online. So why can’t we vote over the Internet? The answer is that voting presents specific ... More
The Press, Google, Its Algorithm, Their Scale (Monday Note)
In their fight against Google, traditional media firmly believe the search engine needs them to refine (and monetize) its algorithm...... More
Time Warner Cable Misses Profit Estimates On User Losses (BusinessWeek)
Time Warner Cable lost 140,000 residential video subscribers, more than the 128,000 that analysts had estimated...... More
Lucasfilm Deal Tightens Ties Between Hollywood and Bay Area (San Jose Mercury News)
As new technologies reshape the entertainment landscape, the Bay Area -- and specifically Silicon Valley -- is emerging as a major force in the future of filmmaking... ... More
Shazam Lights Up the “Second Screen” for Advertisers in 150 TV Campaigns (Beet.TV)
Shazam, the app for smart phones and tablets which "listens" to television shows and immediately surfaces up related information, has been used by major brands in 150 television ca... More
PayPal, Symantec and Others Hacked by Anonymous (Mashable)
The Anonymous hacker collective has claimed responsibility for the cyberattacks, claiming on Twitter the hacks are part of a “November 5th protest"...... More
Film Studios Starting To Release Video-On-Demand Sales Figures (LA Times)
The 'creative accounting' of movies and more recently pay-per-view releases is giving way to some transparency, as seen with the film 'Arbitrage...... More
Media Mojo Melts (NY Post)
After a boffo first half, media companies over the next two weeks will report disappointing results for the third quarter, according to one Wall Street analyst...... More
OTT revenues to quadruple by 2017 (IPTV News)
Over-the-top (OTT) video services will generate an estimated US$ 8.2bn worldwide this year – a figure which will likely quadruple over the next five years to reach US$ 32bn by 20... More
How Amazon Exploits Small Online Retailers (Mashable)
For more than a decade, Amazon has carved out a niche for itself as the online shopping network for every niche: The arrow in the logo is supposed to imply that you can buy anythin... More
American Express, Xbox Sync Up to Change Up Console Advertising (AdWeek)
American Express has concocted a more integrated strategy that borrows from the activity-based advertising approach popularized by Appssavvy by using existing digital partnerships ... More
Samsung Sells Three Million Galaxy Note II “Phablets” in Just Over a Month (All Things D)
The Galaxy Note II is the company’s second-generation sandwich-sized smartphone, measuring six inches by three inches, with a 5.5-inch display...... More
Obama, Congress Get Poor Grades For Internet Openness (CNET)
Both President Obama and the U.S. Congress get failing grades for not allowing the public to learn through the Internet what's actually happening in Washington, D.C, according to a... More
Microsoft Is Reportedly Testing Its Own Smartphone (Tech Crunch)
Details about what a Microsoft smartphone would look like are scarce, but the report does say that the version being currently tested has a screen between four and five inches, whi... More