Devices

Amazon is closing down Lovefilm, its DVD rental service in the U.K. and Germany, later this year. The e-commerce giant said that while streaming is growing at a fast clip, the DVD ... More

Social media is everywhere. The big players in the industry carry billions of users and boast massive layers of data and content. These days, though, social media may be in for a m... More

TiVo is nearing the debut of a “Mini” IP video device that would support 4K video and complement TiVo’s retail-focused 4K DVR product, the Bolt. It might also serve as a whol... More

Instagram is looking to make live videos a lot more chatty by letting broadcasters add a guest to a livestream. The feature, announced Tuesday, will let people using it add someone... More

How will experience marketing evolve over the next 10 years? "The crazy thing about the marketing business is that it’s changed more in the last five years than it did in the 50 ... More

Broadcasters have become the latest media companies in Germany to challenge the market dominance of tech giants Google, Facebook and Amazon. Two of the country’s biggest broad... More

Facebook Stories, one of several Facebook-made Snapchat clones, is coming to the desktop. TechCrunch says it’s confirmed with Facebook that a desktop version of Stories is curren... More

TiVo and Service Electric Cable TV today announced that the companies will bring the ultimate personalized entertainment experience to Service Electric customers powered by the lat... More

More bad news for broadcast networks as it becomes clear that TV continues to be unpopular with the very demographic advertisers crave. Viewers aged between 18 and 49 are turning a... More

The iPod died slowly, then all at once. After nearly 16 years on the market, more than 400 million units sold, and one Cupertino company launched into the stratosphere on its back,... More

HBO’s standalone streaming service HBO Now is experiencing the dragon bump: Downloads of HBO Now’s app for iOS and Android more than quadrupled on the day of the Season 7 premi... More

Twitter has been making an effort for some time to streamline and simplify its interface to make its social media platform more accessible to new and more casual users, and it is d... More

Virtual reality may well be the next big thing, but only if it gets a lot smaller. Many of the brightest minds in the fast-growing technology say the easiest path to making VR main... More

When Amazon’s Echo Show officially launched on June 28, publishers rapidly announced video-optimized skills for the device, while Amazon only partnered with a handful of brands t... More

With summer vacation in full throttle, families are hitting the roads to get away from the daily grind — but not necessarily 21st century amenities like streaming video and Wi-Fi... More

If marketers think that they are still in control just because they got to have a few tidbits about their customers in some fancy Big Data platform, well, they are utterly wrong. T... More

The fifth generation (5G) of technology for wireless communication is coming soon, in the span of two to three years in the U.S. according to the Red Chalk Group, with similar time... More

A new report forecasts that online video viewing around the world will rise by one-fifth in 2017. Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2017 report estimates that consumers will spend ... More

Avid today announced that WPLG, a leading ABC affiliate in Miami, has invested in a story-centric news workflow based on Avid’s comprehensive tools and workflow solutions. Powere... More

Redbox reached a new agreement with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment that will let the operator of DVD rental kiosks offer Fox’s titles seven days after retail sell-through re... More