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Rogers Extends NextBox TV Anywhere to Second Screen (Mediacaster)
Rogers Communications has launched its Anyplace TV Home Edition application for digital tablets, bringing as many as 25 live streamed channels to the viewer’s second screen. New ... More
Smart Retailers are Helping Multi-screen Customers get the Bargains They Want (Smarter Commerce)
It has been a successful start to the holiday shopping season. According to the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, online sales this year were up over 20% compared to last year for... More
Who Will Win The War For Eyeballs Between TV And Social Media (Business 2 Community)
Many people are wondering who will win the advertising war between TV and social media. It seems like TV is as popular as ever and yet so many people have their eyes glued to their... More
UK Social TV Trends Revealed (Broadband TV News)
18.7% of online traffic in the UK is now through devices other than PCs. This, according to Greg Dale, EVP International, comScore, puts the country in second place globally after ... More
Sky Deutschland to Launch Second Screen EPG (Digital TV Europe)
Sky Deutschland is preparing to roll out an enhanced second screen EPG designed to make it easier to find and record content. The Sky Guide will include one touch recording functio... More
Bantr Goes International to Offer Soccer Fans a First Screen Experience — Apparently (Tech Crunch)
There are a whole host of second screen apps catering to sports fans (the UK’s Fanatix springs to mind), so it’s curious that Bantr, which sees its full global launch today, is... More
Akamai In Pact With AT&T On Content Delivery Networks (Forbes)
Akamai Technologies shares are trading higher Thursday morning after the company announced a “strategic alliance” with AT&T to deliver content delivery network services to ... More
Netflix Says It Won’t Raise Prices After Disney Deal (Reuters)
Netflix Inc doesn't plan to pass along the cost of the rights to Walt Disney Co movies to subscribers, a senior executive at the video streaming company said on Wednesday...... More
Blockbuster Is Said to Begin Selling Phones (Bloomberg)
Dish Network Corp.’s Blockbuster will begin selling mobile phones in its movie-rental stores as a test for Dish’s planned entry into the wireless business, according to two peo... More
In Twitter, An Emerging Creative Medium For The Digital Age (Fast Company)
The fictional characters on Twitter don't merely parody celebrities. They're creating a distinctly new storytelling medium that does more than chop up short stories into tweets...... More
Report Lists New Mobile TV Services (TWICE)
The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) released a report on Wednesday detailing new levels of services using non-real-time content broadcasters can deploy over the Mobile TV system... More
New ‘Call of Duty’ Fastest Game In History To Reach $1 Billion (LA Times)
The newest "Call of Duty" is off to a faster start than many in the video game industry had thought -- and appears to have reached $1 billion in sales faster than any game in histo... More
Android Takes Off in China, But Google Has Little to Show for It (Technology Review)
Google closed its Chinese search service three years ago, just as the mobile market exploded. Now it may be realizing the price...... More
The MEDIA-TECH Association Members Appoint Doug Franzen to the Executive Board (Media-Tech)
During the members meeting held 05 December 2012 the members elected Doug Franzen to the Executive Board in order to bring broader opinions in the reshaping to the MEDIA-TECH Assoc... More
FTC Slams Google for Seeking iPhone, iPad Ban (All Things D)
The Federal Trade Commission is backing Apple in the company’s battle with Google over standard-essential patents (SEP), arguing that any attempt to ban a product for allegedly i... More
Adams: ‘Call to Arms’ for UltraViolet (HMM)
Tom Adams, senior principal analyst of U.S. media for IHS Screen Digest, is used to laying out the latest data for the home entertainment industry. But at the recent Forecast: Holl... More
Europe Fines Electronics Makers $1.92 Billion (NY Times)
Europe’s top antitrust regulator on Wednesday announced fines totaling 1.47 billion euros, or $1.92 billion, for seven companies accused of fixing the price of picture tubes for ... More
Moonves Says CBS Primed for New Content Economy (Multichannel News)
The quality-content landscape is a vastly different animal than it was a few years ago, said Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp. president and CEO, and CBS is extraordinarily poised to capit... More
Time Warner CEO says Consumers Benefit from Cable TV Bundling (LA Times)
Consumers may want to pick and choose what channels they pay for but Time Warner Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes says they don't know how good they have it under the ... More
