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To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest ... More

A host of companies and trade associations are warning the Federal Trade Commission that its proposed revision to children's online privacy rules will burden tech start-ups and sti... More

Now that the revamped Netflix interface has hit phones and tablets for both Apple and Android powered hardware, the service has quietly enabled something else: second screen remote... More

If told tell me a year ago that in the future, college football teams would have giant hashtags painted in their end zones, and professional Lacrosse players would have their Twitt... More

Not that much time has passed since AT&T announced it was bringing Zuckerberg's social network right to your U-verse-equipped TV, and now those with an iOS device are in for ye... More

We originally wrote about Synacor before the company had gone public. Their technology is the glue that has allowed cable companies to provide TV content on the web, across multipl... More

If there is any question that seems to be playing on repeat these days, it’s “how do we monetize Social TV?” It is pondered and asked regardless of platforms and mediums, whe... More

Social TV is often narrowly defined by real-time tweets and stunts. While both are extremely important parts of social TV, don’t forget that entire TV lifecycle has been changed ... More

The findings of the studies conducted by NBC, revealed vast shifts in the way people watched the Games this year compared with the Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 and in Beijing in 2... More

Getting Web video off your PC and onto your plasma screen used to be a niche activity. No more: Consumer-tracking service NPD says TV sets are now the most popular way to watch str... More

Today, Boxee is launching its private online video-sharing service known as Cloudee into a public beta. With today’s release, Boxee is expanding Cloudee from a mobile-only serv... More

TV beats the web on time spent and on focus of attention (or “frequency, reach and engagement” in marketer-speak). But you know what TV doesn’t beat? Mobile...... More

Time Warner Cable said it’s offering “must-have” regional sports content on its Metro Sports network in the Kansas City area to Google at fair and reasonable prices -- but th... More

Oklahoma State University yesterday launched an online video system, OStateTV, as a way to connect students, employees and alumni across multiple campuses and sites via personal co... More

An existing low-profile premium movie service called Disney Family Movies could be transformed into a competitor to Netflix or Amazon Prime, contends Sanford Bernstein analyst Todd... More

Microsoft has revealed its Xbox Music service pricing through the Windows 8 Music app, at the same time as pushing out a beta Xbox dashboard update that gives testers a chance to t... More

Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Reed Hastings is trying to prove that his streaming-video company isn't in a state of arrested development. Mr. Hastings, who co-founded Netflix i... More

The number of U.S. TV households fell by 500,000, reflecting the popularity of online viewing and results of the 2010 census, according to Nielsen, producer of the weekly ratings t... More

Coinstar Inc.’s Redbox and Verizon Communications Inc., providing details of their challenge to Netflix Inc., will offer subscription streaming, movie sales and rentals by Chri... More