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Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads (NY Times)

You see them everywhere, and maybe, sometimes, you click: those rows of links under web articles, often augmented with eye-catching photos and curiosity-stoking headlines about the... More

Video Killed the Radio Star: Emerging Video Services Offer New Opportunities for Service Providers (The Future Trust)

The speed and impact with which over-the-top subscription and on-demand video services have hit the market has been nothing short of astounding. A perfect storm of new technologica... More

4K: A New Format Unwraps for the Holidays (HMM)

After a successful launch this spring, the Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc with high dynamic range (HDR), the cream of the 4K crop, is gearing up for its very first gift-giving season. “Th... More

PlayStation Vue Brings its Streaming TV Service to Android TV, and Soon, Mac, Windows (TechCrunch)

PlayStation Vue, Sony’s streaming TV service aimed at cord cutters, just got more useful. The company announced the service will now run on Android TV, and will arrive on both Ma... More

FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission To Share Your Data (NPR)

"It's the consumers' information. How it is used should be the consumers' choice." So said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler as the commission adopted rules requiring Internet service provi... More

Mindtree Named 2016 Azure Innovation Partner of the Year by Microsoft (MESA)

Mindtree, a leading digital transformation and technology services company, has been awarded the “Azure Innovation Partner of the Year 2016” by Microsoft. This award recognizes... More

Wazee Digital’s Andy Hurt to Give Joint Presentation on CharlieRose.com at AWS Cloud Symposium (MESA)

Wazee Digital's Andy Hurt will present at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Media and Entertainment Cloud Symposium. Joining Hurt will be Xarissa Holdaway, deputy editor for digital fo... More

Video Subscriber Growth, Olympics Give Comcast a Q3 Lift (MESA)

An unexpected rise in video customers, combined with expected strong revenue from NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics in Rio and the hit Universal Pictures animated theatrical ... More

The Millennial Angle to the AT&T-Time Warner Deal (Digiday)

Media companies are under pressure to stay relevant with mobile-addicted millennials and distribution companies are trying to diversify their revenue streams. That’s a key part o... More

No, Content Isn’t King (Bloomberg Gadfly)

Bill Gates helped popularize the phrase "content is king” for the internet era. It's a shorthand to explain the primacy of people and companies that create entertainment and info... More

Advertising, Internet Retailer Revenue Likely to be Hit Hard by Global Cyber Attack (The Drum)

The global denial of service (DDOS) attack on server company Dyn that took out the likes of PayPal, Twitter, Etsy, Reddit and Spotify may have wreaked havoc on revenues for interne... More

Spotify, Twitter Go Down after DDOS Attack (TechCrunch)

A major cyberattack against an internet directory knocked dozens of popular websites offline today, with outages continuing into the afternoon. Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, Shopif... More

AT&T has 120 Billion Reasons to Approach Time Warner Cautiously (Bloomberg)

AT&T Inc. may be interested in a deal with media giant Time Warner Inc., but the phone carrier’s ambitions are constrained by its hefty $120 billion debt load and its desire to k... More

2 Billion Home Networked Consumer Entertainment Devices Expected by 2019 (MediaPost)

A billion here, a billion there. The number of Internet-connected devices continues to climb. While there will be many billions of sensors of all types installed around the world, ... More

TiVo Finds Millennials Are Fickle Viewers (Light Reading)

TiVo released follow-up findings from its 2016 TiVo consumer survey, focusing on the behavior of U.S. millennials and how this coveted demographic interacts with video content, pro... More

Amazon Exploring Future as an ISP – Report (Light Reading)

Stop the presses. A news report out of The Information suggests that Amazon is considering the possibility of becoming an Internet service provider in Europe. In theory, the move w... More

Media, Tech Execs: Challenges Remain for OTT, TV Everywhere (MESA)

NEW YORK — Despite the growing popularity of over-the-top (OTT) TV services and the ever-increasing number of players in the space, several challenges remain for companies offeri... More

Facebook Live Ups the Ante With New Advanced Scheduling Feature (VideoNuze)

Facebook released an important feature yesterday, enabling certain content creators to schedule and promote Facebook Live broadcasts in advance. While a lot of the hype around live... More

Walmart’s Vudu Launches Free Movie, TV Service With Thousands of Titles (Variety)

Vudu, which has been selling and renting HD movies and TV shows online for nearly a decade, is now offering free, ad-supported access to several thousand premium titles — a move ... More

Sony CEO: Technology Coupled With Creativity Drives Growth (Variety)

In his keynote speech Monday at the Mipcom TV conference in Cannes, Kazuo Hirai, president and CEO of Sony Corporation, underscored the importance of linking technology with creati... More

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