Yesterday’s press release from Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announcing a comprehensive new ten-year distribution agreement… Read more »
The latest monthly figures from independent mobile ad network Jumptap reveal that Android has continued to solidify its lead as the most dom… Read more »
When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010… Read more »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Xfinity TV subscribers stymied by the lack of access to iPad app WatchESPN have relief in sight: a new multi-year, cro… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) subscribers appear to be spending far more time viewing the service’s streaming content than do users of any other onli… Read more »
News reports (Mail Online, Telegraph.co.uk) that *Apple* and *Google* may bid for 2013-16 Premier League live broadcast rights are almost ce… Read more »
Missing Keith Olbermann during Countdown-less Iowa caucus coverage on Current TV? Olbermann tweeted that he’ll be back Wednesday night but t… Read more »
More money for European tech startups: Wroclaw, Poland based mobile games publisher Tequila Mobile has announced a $1.7 round of funding, as… Read more »
2011 UK music sales volume figures are in, showing a continuation of the same patterns, according to Official Charts Company data (via BPI). Read more »
Last week, the paidContent staff analyzed the sectors we cover most, highlighting the key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012. Som… Read more »
This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from… Read more »
The European Commission says 2011 progress against its digital agenda ambitions has been “mixed”. Read more »
This is the third in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cov… Read more »
Online video is becoming a fast-growing business in China, as well as the west. Read more »
Some countries in Europe, like France, are looking at ways of extending their copyright protection laws to streamed media, in addition to ex… Read more »
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, an… Read more »
– Macmillan: Brian Napack is stepping down as president of Macmillan, effective the end of the year. In a letter to employees, he writes, “… Read more »
A report out today, taking its cue from the new Timeline feature that is now getting rolled out to Facebook’s 800-million-plus users, allege… Read more »
This is the last in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cov… Read more »
Last year, News International made The Times and The Sun newspapers free on Christmas and used the opportunity to promote their respective i… Read more »
Some research out from Xyologic today on app store download trends in 2011 indicates that while games have remained a popular category acros… Read more »
Digital music is now mainstream, thanks in part to the MP3. Will the e-book market be next to produce a one-size-fits-all format-a format th… Read more »
It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million… Read more »
The NFL and NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) garnered a lot of attention yesterday with news that the Super Bowl (along with the Pro Bowl and two Wild Card… Read more »
Android’s Market and the App Store from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be getting ever-closer to being level in the number of apps on offer, but whe… Read more »
Amazon’s LoveFilm is continuing its film and TV content rights war with U.S. rival Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), signing a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE… Read more »
This year’s Superbowl is in Indianapolis and it’s a sure thing the hometown Colts will not be playing. But, luckily for the Colts and the re… Read more »
Nearly three short years ago, the buzz word du jour in tech was “realtime”. Real time discovery. Real time search. Real time serendipity. Th… Read more »
One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as… Read more »
The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as i… Read more »
The long-awaited IPO of social games giant Zynga has finally arrived, but those hoping for quick, early flips of the stock may end up having… Read more »
Digital sports rights company Perform has bought out two online sports firms in deals worth almost £10 ($15.55)m. Read more »
Is Rovio’s floatation ever going to happen? For some time now, we’ve been reading chatter about an imminent IPO.
The latest date is 2013, t… Read more »
Zynga, the social gaming company behind Farmville, Words With Friends and other online games, is preparing to go public on Friday in what co… Read more »
Apple’s and Android’s stronghold on the U.S. smartphone market has been the case for many quarters already, and figures out today from Niels… Read more »
Some bloggers have been likening popular funnyman Louis CK to Radiohead, pointing out that both have large passionate audiences and both hav… Read more »
Cash-rich pay-TV service Al Jazeera Sports could force Sky Sports to bid 25 percent more for 2013-16 Premier League rights when negotiations… Read more »
Verizon is getting its full turn in the rumor mill. Last week, word had it that Verizon is looking to launch an OTT subscription service. Ne… Read more »
The entertainment world is buzzing about a viral video that shows A-list artists like Kanye West and Alicia Keyes singing the praises of fil… Read more »
Illustrating how rival platforms are keen to attract quality apps from iOS to their stores, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are… Read more »
