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Twitter has struck a deal with CBS to stream both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions later this month, the company announced Monday. That means Twitter has permissi... More

Twitter wants to stream more TV-like live video around major sporting events, so it’s approaching the folks who control those rights to cut a deal. The company is in talks with t... More

For movie and TV studios, the big bugaboo is people illegally copying or downloading their IP. For SVOD services, it’s another form of piracy – password sharing, which cost com... More

Twilio today announced a new collaboration with Amazon’s AWS platform. The company says it is “helping AWS provide the delivery of SMS messages through the Amazon Simple Notifi... More

Twitter today is providing a glimpse into what kind of TV-like platform it could be for sports fans, one of its most-loyal user bases. The social media network's livestreaming of W... More

ESports hasn’t gone mainstream quite yet, but when it does, the self-proclaimed “worldwide leader in sports” has every intention of being there to cover it. ESPN’s interest... More

Spotify says Apple is making it harder for the streaming music company to compete by blocking a new version of its iPhone app. In a letter sent this week to Apple’s top lawyer, S... More

Facebook Inc. has inked contracts with nearly 140 media companies and celebrities to create videos for its nascent live-streaming service, as the social network positions itself to... More

HBO Now, the premium programmer’s stand-alone OTT service, suffered a temporary outage Sunday night as subscribers swamped the system to watch the newest episode from season six ... More

Technologies like predictive video seem to have recently caused advertisers to flock to video platforms, enabling them to mine previously-unattainable forms of human behavioral dat... More

The latest mobile dating apps—the most popular being Tinder, Happn, Grindr and Bumble—hint at how technology could change courtship in the years to come. Instead of earlier mod... More

Twitter is ramping up its push into live video. A “Go Live” button, which provides a one-tap navigation to Twitter’s Periscope app, is now available to some Android users in ... More

By the end of last week, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook would conduct “a full investigation” into accusations that editors at the company prevented news stories from conser... More

Second screening in the UK will reach its zenith during this summer’s European Football Championship, according to new research commissioned by programmatic ad tech firm, RadiumO... More

The majority of people using Snapchat's application are making videos, fueling a boom in watching them, the company is telling its investors. More than a third of Snapchat's daily ... More

Fifty minutes a day: on average that’s how long we spend using Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram, and that’s without taking WhatsApp into account, where in countries ... More

A year after live-streaming apps -- namely early contender Meerkat and the now-dominant Periscope -- broke through to the tech-saturated throngs of South By Southwest, Jennie Sager... More

For Facebook, streaming a live football game—and paying for the right to do so—would be an enormous shift for the company. Facebook has long served as a platform where people, ... More

Turner Sports has signed a two-year deal with Snapchat to create “Live Stories” surrounding sporting events like March Madness basketball, college baseball and professional gol... More

Set to an acoustic version of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game,” the new footage teases the return (and demise) of some of the show’s leading characters, including Jon Snow. “Y... More