All posts by MESA News

Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption (Forbes)

Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to ... More

Bad News for Standalone MDM: No One Wants You (CITE World)

Consolidation in the mobile device management market points to changes afoot...... More

Dijit’s NextGuide Has Guide for TV and Streaming Programming (Beet.tv)

Television has evolved from a live form of entertainment to one with live, time-shifting, on demand and streaming options. San Francisco-based Dijit has created a digital TV guide ... More

Social TV App, zeebox Achieves Over 100,000 Downloads in Two Weeks (Technology Spectator)

International social TV company  zeebox is thriving in Australia, with the company saying its app has achieved over 100,000 downloads within the two weeks of its launch. The figur... More

Endemol, Dainty Ensure Satisfaction for Rolling Stones PPV Second Screen App (Rapid TV News)

As The Rolling Stones Official App launches on Google's Android platform after its debut on Apple's iOS, leading production house Endemol and Dainty Group have revealed their commi... More

LG Readies Second Screen Solution for CES Debut (Huffington Post)

Consumer electronics giant LG is readying the launch of a two-screen API for its content partners, allowing users to manage and interact with programming on the big screen using an... More

Nielsen and Twitter Partner to Measure Social TV Audience (Los Angeles Times)

Nielsen and Twitter have struck a multi-year partnership to measure the reach of online conversations about television shows. The new Nielsen Twitter TV Rating will do more than pr... More

Viggle & GetGlue Slated for Social TV Expansion in 2013 (Beet.tv)

Social TV services Viggle and GetGlue are working on plans to expand services across platforms in the new year, says Kyle Brink, VP Product at Viggle during an interview with Beet.... More

Twitter Surpasses 200M Active Monthly Users (CNET)

Twitter has not yet hit the saturation point. The ever-booming social network and venue for the "pulse of the planet" said today that it now has more than 200 million active monthl... More

Apps Give Preschoolers a First Look at TV Shows (New York Times)

In 2014, the preschool cable network Nick Jr. plans to introduce a television show featuring a little boy, his miniature pet dragon and a magic stick. But the show, "Wallykazam," w... More

How Multi-Screen User Behavior Has Changed Marketing (Businesss2Community)

What a multi-screen world we live in! We might watch a basketball game or shop online with our smartphones while checking our email or playing a game on our tablets. Not only are p... More

Social TV’s Top 10 Moments For 2012 (Forbes)

What began as a natural phenomenon - you see something on TV, you say something on Social Media - has the attention of every TV exec these days. That wasn't quite as true a year ag... More

Amazon, Advertising’s Sleeping Giant, to Awaken in 2013 (Adweek)

Amazon made a splash during October’s Advertising Week while previewing its advertising business, but that was merely a ripple compared to the waves the e-commerce behemoth has ... More

Mobile’s Rude Awakening (Monday Note)

Mobile audiences are large and growing. Great. But their monetization is mostly a disaster. The situation will be slow to improve, but the potential is still there — if the right... More

The Aereo Internet TV Legal Battle: What’s Happening, and Why It Matters (Digital Trends)

“No cable required.” That’s the battlecry that Internet startup, Aereo, foregrounds on its website. The company aims to offer live, uber-cheap, streaming Internet TV to users... More

Study: European Cord-Cutting Looms (Advanced TV)

IDATE has published a study on cord-cutting, based on a detailed analysis of the US market, the world’s most advanced, so that lessons can be drawn for Europe ... More

LG Readies Second Screen Solution for CES Debut (Beet.TV)

LG is readying the launch of a two-screen API for its  content partners, allowing users to manage and interact with programming on the big screen using an app on their tablet or p... More

IP Opens Up the TV Race (Digital TV Europe)

At the moment, TV Everywhere may be more hype than actual services, but if you are a pay TV operator you are certainly thinking about it. And if you’re not thinking about it, wel... More

Mobile User Interfaces for the Supply Chain (Supply Chain Digital)

The explosion of mobile devices available today is providing workers with a deluge of new ways to interact with their corporate enterprises...... More