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Cinema Second Screen? (Variety)
For theater owners (and studios), cell phones and tablets are the enemy today, distracting, and often angering, filmgoers. But a contingent of entertainment industry executives see... More
New BBC Chief Vows to Re-invent Content, Not Just Re-purpose it (paidContent)
The BBC’s new director-general has vowed to merge TV, radio and online teams so that the corporation creates “genuinely digital content for the first time”...... More
Hollywood Remembers Technology Trailblazer Bob Lambert (Hollywood Reporter)
Bob Lambert, a technical strategist at Disney for 25 years and a guiding force in the industry’s sweeping transiton from film to digital cinema who founded Digital Cinema Initiat... More
Public Knowledge Puts Support for Dish in Legal Hopper (Broadcasting & Cable)
Public interest group Public Knowledge, which has lent moral support to Dish's Hopper ad-skipping DVR, the target of a suit by Fox, has added its legal support as well. The group ... More
Tech Lobbying Powerhouse Set to Open Doors in Washington (Reuters)
Google, Amazon.com, eBay, Facebook and other Internet companies have formed a lobbying group called The Internet Association to tackle regulatory and political issues in Washington... More
Vimeo Lets Video Makers Hold Out a Tip Jar (AllThingsD)
Vimeo is a great place to see stunning videos. It’s not a great place for the people who make those videos to make money. So, here’s an attempt to change that: Barry Diller�... More
Sky Wins Exclusive Warner Bros. Movie Rights, Dealing a Blow to Netflix (TNW)
Pushing back against Netflix and its satellite, video-on-demand and pay-per-view rivals, Sky has signed a new movie deal with Warner Bros., which sees it granted exclusive access ... More
How Social TV is Growing Across PromaxBDA and the Producers Guild (Lost Remote)
I’m excited to participate and moderate a panel tonight with four of television’s most impressive executives. Tina Exarhos EVP of Marketing & Multiplatform Creative for MTV... More
‘The X Factor’ Sets New Social Record in Season Premiere, Bluefin Says (The Wrap)
Britney Spears and Demi Lovato’s arrival at “The X Factor” judging table propelled Wednesday’s premiere to a curious new record – most social TV season premiere ever. Acc... More
Cablevision Develops ‘Virtual Communal Television Viewing’ Technology (Fierce Cable)
Cablevision is developing social TV technology that could allow subscribers to talk to each other via voice or video chats while watching programming, according to a recent patent ... More
Nintendo Introduces TVii – Pushing into Social TV Realm with New Wii U (Appmarket.tv)
At a press conference in New York Thursday, Nintendo revealed that the new Wii U will make use of an application called Nintendo TVii, which will let users control, record and inte... More
Zeebox Launching in U.S. this Month, Probably with Comcast (Beet.tv)
Zeebox, the second screen TV app which has become quite popular in the U.K. since its launch last year, will launch in the U.S. this month, says CTO Anthony Rose in this video inte... More
Yap.TV Social TV Companion Hits 1 Billion Views (World TV PC)
San Francisco (USA)-based social TV service Yap.TV has celebrated reaching a landmark 1 billion views (from an estimated 600,000 regular users), continuing their efforts to grow th... More
Shazam Plans To Make Money On TV’s Second Screen
No longer content to just help you confirm that, yes, the song you're hearing is the new Justin Bieber single, Shazam is branching out. The music identification and discovery app i... More
Livestream Bets Big on Free Video Broadcasting Without Ads (VentureBeat)
How do you stand out in the increasingly crowded live video streaming market? In the case ofLivestream, it’s by killing the ads. Today the company announced that it’s offering... More
20th Century Fox Launches Early Digital Release of ‘Prometheus’ (LA Times)
20th Century Fox launched an initiative designed to spur digital sales, offering its sci-fi thriller "Prometheus" for sale through several major online retailers three weeks ah... More
Google Taps Fox For Digital Content (Variety)
Google said Tuesday it will offer over 600 titles from Twentieth Century Fox on Google Play and YouTube in conjunction with the studio's major new Digital HD initiative, rolling ou... More
Reports of the Death of Major Record Labels Are Greatly Exaggerated (Billboard)
People seem to be split between two opinions: the majors are doing OK; and the majors are doomed. If people come from the world of independent music they tend to be biased against ... More
iTunes Continues to Dominate Music Retailing, But Nearly 60% of iTunes Buyers Also Use Pandora (NPD)
Nearly a decade after introducing Americans to the original iTunes Music Store, Apple continues to dominate the scene for paid digital-music downloads and for all music purchases i... More
