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Netflix Launches Downloads for Offline Viewing on Smartphones, Tablets (Variety)

Netflix has finally rolled out a feature subscribers have been requesting for years: The company will now let members worldwide download select TV shows and movies for viewing on A... More

IBM Retail Clients Set Records on Cyber Monday, Turn Customer Demand into Online Holiday Sales Growth (MESA)

IBM today reported that Cyber Monday has officially turned into a global shopping holiday with consumers taking advantage of online deals being offered by retailers all around the ... More

Kevin Tsujihara Zeroing in on Theatrical Movies in the Home (HMM)

Speaking Nov. 29 at the Credit Suisse Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., Tsujihara said the time had come to afford consumers with the option to watch stu... More

Roku Devices to Get Sling TV’s New Cloud DVR Service First (MESA)

Select users of Roku TVs and streaming players will be the first consumers to get access to the new Sling TV Cloud DVR service when a beta program starts in December, Dish Network�... More

Kaltura Positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Video Content Management (MESA)

“After another great year across the board, we are honored to, once again, be formally recognized by Gartner as a market leader, positioning us the furthest for completeness of v... More

FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, 10 Premier League Clubs Unite to Launch Digital Platform (The Drum)

Dugout has partnered with 27 clubs as well as players and influencers to offer football fans exclusive behind-the-scenes original content on one platform. Some of the other big clu... More

PayPal: Nearly 1/3 of Thanksgiving, Black Friday Shopping Was Done on Mobile (VentureBeat)

With the official start of the holiday shopping season behind us, the time has come to see what damage we have done to our checkbooks. Many in the commerce space have already come ... More

Digital Single Market: The Biggest Problem for European Startups (ARC)

The logistics of ordering an item online and sending one place to another in the U.S. is fairly simple: slap a label on a box and send that box through the U.S. Postal Service, Fed... More

How Top Retailers are Using Tech to Score Points on Black Friday, Beyond (Forbes)

Rob Preston, Oracle: Now is make-or-break time for retailers, as a typical retailer generates about 20% of its annual revenue during the end-of-year holiday season. For some, the s... More

Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Enter China Again (ComputerWorld)

Facebook has reportedly developed a software tool that will help keep certain content away from users’ news feeds in certain geographies, reflecting the company’s apparent will... More

Cyber Monday Set to be Largest Shopping Day in History (Forbes)

Cyber Monday (Nov. 28) is the largest shopping day of not only the Thanksgiving weekend, but the year. The upcoming holiday season will be the largest online shopping affair yet, w... More

Amazon is Exploring Adding Live Sports to its Prime Offerings (The Verge)

Amazon has held talks with a number of sports leagues including the NFL, NBA, MLB, and MLS as it explores the possibility of incorporating live sports with Prime, according to a re... More

The Set-Top’s Not Dead, Set-Top Regulation Is (Light Reading)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal was originally scheduled to go up for a vote in September, but it was pulled from the regulatory agenda with reports that the C... More

PlayStation Vue Bites Into Apple TV (MCN)

PlayStation Vue, Sony’s OTT-TV service, has added another key platform to its streaming mix by launching an app for Apple TV (fourth-generation) devices. In addition to supportin... More

Technicolor to Develop New Home Gateways for Telestra Customers (MESA)

Technicolor has announced that Australia's leading telecommunications services provider, Telstra, has chosen Technicolor to develop two new home gateways designed to deliver greatl... More

Silicon Valley is Now the Media Capital of the World (Recode)

Silicon Valley is known for tech innovation and for being the place where an idea can become a reality. Now it’s becoming known as the capital of media transformation — reshapi... More

Google Working on New Fiber TV/Network Boxes with 4K Ultra HD, HDR (4K)

First comes news that Google will be stopping short its plans for further expansion of their Fiber ultra-high speed internet service to new areas of the U.S and now comes almost co... More

EU Digital Single Market to Tackle Taxation Barriers (Bloomberg)

Europe’s chief of the digital single market, Andrus Ansip, has urged the continent to “hurry up” with implementing the single market, warning it is falling behind on plans to... More

Evolution Digital Reaches Agreement with GCI, Expands Customer List for eBOX IP Hybrid (MESA)

Evolution Digital has reached agreement with General Communications to deploy the revolutionary eBOX IP Hybrid Set-Top Box, powered by TiVo, to GCI customers in select service regi... More

Tech Giants Send Trump a Roadmap on Copyright, Encryption, Net Neutrality (Billboard)

A trade group that represents Facebook, Google and Amazon sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Monday that included a roadmap of key policy priorities covering topics l... More

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