Ingrid Lunden
Feb 1, 2012 3:00 AM
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 27, 2012 12:39 PM
It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 24, 2012 6:33 AM
Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 20, 2012 8:53 AM
This week saw a number of developments at Twitter and Facebook, two of the world’s biggest social networking sites, that are signs of them looking to capitalize more on their already-hefty user bases by creating services that keep them on their sites for longer.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 9, 2012 7:23 PM
MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, today revealed a significant deal to grow out its business in Europe: a deal with Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), one of Europe’s biggest operators, to develop a…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 8, 2012 7:57 PM
News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the startup Zeebox for a sum that is “double-digit millions” in both pounds and dollars.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 5, 2012 4:10 PM
Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. and abroad. Now as newspaper readers move to new platforms like tablets to consume their news content, the AP wants to make sure it is syndicating…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 5, 2012 5:08 AM
When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010, some wondered if it would also start to offer a paid version of the product. Well, it’s taken 15 months, but it’s happened.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 14, 2011 5:47 AM
Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among the general population. Ofcom says the UK and Japan are among the countries leading the way to that milestone as consumers turn away from PC usage—a trend…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 8, 2011 6:05 AM
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video - but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social network, it remains mostly a gateway to video hosted elsewhere.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 7, 2011 5:04 PM
Two more advances for Facebook in its ongoing quest to make its service ever more sticky and useful for its 800 million-plus base of subscribers: the company has officially started to roll out its Timeline feature, and it looks like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has moved one step closer to getting…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 1, 2011 10:49 AM
We’ve seen some significant strides for LTE in the past year—with some big names like Verizon and AT&T (NYSE: T) getting behind the fast mobile broadband technology and rolling it out for the masses. The latest reports on what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is cooking up could be another boost: Apple…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 21, 2011 7:10 AM
Today we either saw the first effects of Adobe’s decision to stop developing Flash for mobile, or another example of why it has not gotten very far on mobile in the first place: it turns out that the newest iteration of the Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich, does not currently…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 16, 2011 3:00 AM
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is picking up some more momentum for its UK and Ireland launch, scheduled for early next year. The streaming video company has now added film studio Miramax to its list of content partners, joining Lionsgate and MGM in providing films for the service. But unlike the other…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 14, 2011 7:02 AM
A new day, and a new device to challenge Apple’s iPad in the market for tablets.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 13, 2011 7:17 PM
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has banked a lot of its fortunes on selling advertising around a group of high-traffic web properties. But just as it still derives a large part of its online revenues from its legacy internet access business, in mobile it has a legacy business to thank for its…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 9, 2011 5:04 AM
Update: Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) how now posted an item on its own blog confirming that it will stop developing Flash for mobile devices, and will instead concentrate on apps using Adobe Air and HTML5. It will continue to support Flash for PC browsing, it said. Original post below. Widely debated,…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 3, 2011 10:00 AM
Consumers are watching more TV today than ever before, but that increased consumption is rapidly changing with the times. According to a new survey from TVGuide.com and paidContent, a good part of the growth in TV usage—among those who are avid TV watchers already—is coming via online content, time-shifting systems…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 31, 2011 8:21 AM
In last week’s earnings call, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) said it will continue to push hard into streaming video. Now, in a new licensing deal with Disney-ABC (NYSE: DIS) Television Group, Amazon Prime members can stream shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Lost and Spider-Man for free.
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David Kaplan
Oct 27, 2011 6:00 AM
Bloomberg may still be battling with Comcast over better placement on its cable systems, but the financial news and information company is looking to claim to another screen for its live television broadcasts: the iPad. The company launched its latest free, ad-supported app in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Store…
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