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NextGuide iPad App Continues its Fight Against Boring Grids, Adds Amazon, Gestures and More (Engadget)
There's more than a few apps (and even DVRs) that promise to help you find something to watch, but one of the more interesting efforts came from Dijit Media's NextGuide app for the... More
Report: Social TV Market to Be Worth $256.44BN By 2017; Europe Taking Largest Share Now (Tech Crunch)
The global social TV market is already a multi-billion dollar industry, with TV giants betting big money on second screen viewing, but the market is set for double-digit growth in ... More
Dick Costolo Says Being the ‘Second Screen’ is the Future of Twitter (GigaOm)
As Twitter has been evolving over the past year or so — an evolution that has caused some upheaval in the company’s ecosystem of developers and power users, many of whom seem t... More
TV Warily Embraces the Second Screen (Examiner)
TV is in a fight for attention. It’s no longer just a matter of attracting enough viewers to sell high priced ads. Now there is a new competitor on the horizon and it’s moving ... More
TV is Now the “Second Screen,” Says YouTube Boss (RadioTimes)
Smartphones and tablets are not “second screens,” the television is, at least according to YouTube’s head of content Robert Kyncl. The boss of the Google-owned company, which... More
CBS Aims Big with Two-Screen Screen Offering around Big Events and TV Series (Beet.tv)
Expect more two- and four-screen experiences across CBS' special events, sports and regular programming this quarter and into the first quarter of 2013, including for the biggest T... More
Google TV v3 Teaser: Voice Search, Second-Screen Tablet App, More (Slash Gear)
Google has begun teasing Google TV v3, the incoming update to its smart TV platform, complete with a tablet remote control app for second-screen navigation. The new video preview �... More
Movie Theater Encourages Patrons to Play With Their iPads During the Movies (SlashFilm)
As the debate over what to do about cell phone usage in movies rages on, one theater isn’t just tolerating those awful glowy screens, but actively encouraging them. ArcLight Cine... More
Mobile Devices Will Become TV Media’s New Point-Of-Sale (MediaPost)
We may have to drop our use of the term “second screen” altogether. The construction is starting to lead to silly equations and linguistic skirmishes over which screen really i... More
CTAM Notebook—Moving the Needle on Social TV (CableFax)
Social TV, or engaging with television content on social platforms, starts with the community, according to Cox exec dir, mktg-social media Adam Naide at a panel at the CTAM Summit... More
Univision to Launch Online On-Demand Network Monday (Broadcasting & Cable)
Univision Communications on Monday plans to introduce its new bilingual online network UVideos, which will provide on demand programming and a social TV experience on a variety of ... More
Record Sky Dive Shows YouTube’s Live Video Strength (AllThingsD)
That crazy leap that Felix Baumgartner made was astonishing. And if you’re interested in the future of Web video, YouTube’s ability to serve up eight million livestreams at ... More
Xbox Music Leads Microsoft’s New Push to Challenge iTunes (NY Times)
In an aggressive push to persuade lots of people to use the service, Microsoft will package the software for Xbox Music with Windows 8. The arrangement could awaken antitrust conce... More
Tvinci Raises $4.5 Million to Pitch its Mobile TV Platform Worldwide (paidContent)
Israeli technology vendor Tvinci is taking on a $4.5 million investment to seek out global clients for its internet TV apps platform...... More
There Is No Joy in FarmVille (Fortune)
It's not that the social gaming sector is tanking. It's that competition has intensified and enthusiasm for the latest hit among gamers can increasingly be clocked with an egg-time... More
Google TV Teaser Video Shows Off Voice-Controlled Content, Genre and Channel Searches (The Next Web)
In the same week Google announced that Google Play Movies, TV shows and music were launching on Google TV this month, the Internet giant has posted a sneak peek at what’s to com... More
AT&T Does TV Everywhere Deal With Viacom Networks (Broadcasting & Cable)
Viacom made a deal with AT&T that will give U-verse subscribers access to more full-length episodes of Viacom programming online...... More
Hulu Completes Buyout of Providence (Variety)
The private equity firm, which was one of the streaming service's founding stakeholders along with NBCUniversal and News Corp., sold its 10% stake back to those congloms as well as... More
China in Hollywood, Hailed and Investigated (NY Times)
The powerful gatekeeper of China’s rapidly growing film world, the China Film Group chairman Han Sanping, will be here on Oct. 30 to receive an award as the China Entertainment ... More
