Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has put its digital eggs into one basket—centralizing all its global digital operations into one new unit—and with today’s results it’s easy to see why: the company today released some dismal results for some of its legacy businesses—namely in its home market of Spain—which have resulted in…

Times Of India’s online division is getting mobile and internet highlights of English soccer’s Premier League, after cutting a deal with online sports rights operator and broadcaster Perform Group.

In the movie The Matrix, the main character Neo is offered a choice between a blue pill (“the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe”) and a red pill (“you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes”).

Indie documentary video streaming service SnagFilms making good on some of the changes it proposed earlier this year, when it raised $10 million in funding: it’s officially expanding its 2,300 non-fiction film library to include dramatic, fictional independent features. The second change can be called the “Snag Everywhere” plan, which…

Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new—Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But today, paidContent can report, Miramax is launching the largest-scale Facebook streaming movie venture yet, the latest in a series of moves to mine the most ore possible from its rich…

The notion that Hulu would expand to the UK first has been around almost as long as the online video portal itself. But the joint venture of News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), NBCUniversal (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) is headed in a very different direction for its first international launch—Japan—and…

Like its MSO rivals, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) saw more subscribers disappear, though it thinks it has a plan to retain the customers don’t leave out of economic hardship and more inclined to choose an over-the-top service instead: the expansion of its iPad in-home viewing app to the iPhone and iPod…

		EPS*	Rev. vs QQ210	Net Inc. vs QQ210
Cablevision	Release		9.1%	44.2%

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Novak Dkojovic and Petra Kvitova weren’t the only winners at Wimbledon this year. Fans who thinking watching sports live matters won big when the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club went with ESPN (NYSE: DIS) as the exclusive rights holder and its massive live schedule for the next 12…

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) continues to add programming strength to its digital service. Starting next month Netflix subscribers will have instant access to hundreds of Miramax titles from Oscar winners like The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love to cult favorites and teen screamers. It’s the first major digital deal since…

HBO’s best production this year may not be a program. I had a few doubts at times with the browser version but HBO Go as an app is everything Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes promised with TV Everywhere and then some. Premium programming that might start to look…

Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is extending its existing relationship with mobile data company Motricity, as it aims to make mobile entertainment a proper part of its quad-play mix (release).

The BBC’s international iPlayer iPad app will cost less than $10 (£6.13) a month when it launches later this year, according to director general Mark Thompson.

The BBC brought its iPlayer seven-day catch-up, one of the world’s most popular VOD products, to iPad and Android as apps this week - to a mostly warm response and some impatient grumbles that shows can’t be stored on the devices or streamed over 3G (it’s WiFi streams only). The…

We already reported last month that the BBC’s iPlayer service would finally be released as an app before February’s end. The BBC had scheduled a press conference for Friday morning to announce it. But BBC online engineer Geoff Marshall blew the surprise by tweeting about it on Monday.

How can an Android smartphone maker hope to stand out from the crowd of other Android ODMs? One big way could be content and the user experience around it. Today HTC announced that it is buying Saffron Digital, a London/Los Angeles outfit that specialises in mobile content delivery services, specifically…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be rethinking how it delivers mobile music—shuttering its Ovi Unlimited music service—but it is not giving up on digital entertainment altogether. The Swedish VOD and streaming site Voddler has announced that it has picked up an additional $8 million in funding, with this round led by…

News Corp.‘s BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) confirmed it has bought UK WiFi network The Cloud from its investor, DFJ Esprit, “to allow easy access to Sky content on multiple devices in and out of home”.

Remember those plans for a BBC iPlayer mobile and iPad app? Nearly 12 months after they were announced and six months after they were green-lighted after the BBC Trust intervened, they’re still M.I.A..

—T-Mobile, the fourth largest mobile operator in the U.S., will not be left behind in the CES 4G cavalcade. It may still be holding off from LTE in the U.S. (not so for its parent in Germany), but it will nevertheless upgrade its “4G” HSPA network. The top speed will…