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Roku and Boxee Deliver Enhanced TV Tech
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Just enter the name of a movie or TV show, favorite actor or director and Roku looks for the applicable goods across multiple platforms – Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, Crackle, HBO Go and Vudu HD movies. I started to type in “Bill Murray ...

Netflix: Reed Hastings Strategizing For His Life Right Now
TheStreet.com
By Rocco Pendola 11/02/12 - 11:00 AM EDT. Stock quotes in this article: NFLX, MSFT, AMZN · Tweet. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Carl Icahn says he built a massive stake in Netflix (NFLX) because he thinks somebody will take the "undervalued" company out.

Amazon Closing in on Netflix in Alternative TV Space
PC Magazine
"While Netflix still holds the largest share by far of the paid alternative TV market, consumers continue to shift towards Amazon's Instant Video service," ChangeWave's Andy Golub said in a statement. "As Amazon's TV ... Thirty-five percent of ...

Netflix CEO Won't Buy What Icahn Is Selling
TheStreet.com
Tweet. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has acquired a 10% stake in Netflix (NFLX), saying publicly that he views the popular online video site as a takeover target for larger media, tech and telecommunications giants.

Amazon.com, Netflix And 8 Other Overvalued Stocks In The S&P 500
Seeking Alpha
By David Sterman. The investment takeaway from this earnings season is unmistakable: Growth is slowing as companies do their best to ensure that current sales don't fall below the levels seen in late 2011. And this changing growth dynamic is slowly ...

Microsoft, chips lead tech rally; Netflix falls
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Technology stocks posted strong gains on Thursday, helped by a broad market uplift that boosted shares across the sector, with Microsoft Corp. as one of the standouts among large-cap names. A couple of notable ...

Netflix: Does This Business Model Still Make Sense?
Forbes
Netflix (NFLX) must be wondering if there's any kind of silver lining to that thick grey cloud apparently fixed permanently overhead. The October 23rd earnings report contained little in the way of evidence of any end to the gloom, despite the fact ...

Netflix tells Icahn it is open to his input
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Netflix Inc said on Thursday it was open to input from billionaire Carl Icahn, the activist investor who now controls 10 percent of the video rental company's shares a day after his surprise investment. "We have many ...

Netflix & CBS Ink Deal for Canada, Latin America and UK
By Paul Sawers
It's almost two years since Netflix last inked its streaming deal with CBS in the States, making the VOD platform the only streaming provider to offer content from the so-called 'big four' – ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. Now, CBS and Netflix are ...
The Next Web

Amazon And Netflix Merger Is A Farce - Minyanville
By Benzinga.com
Hot on the heels of the rumor that Microsoft is still interested in acquiring Netflix, Amazon is thought to be interested in buying the streaming video giant.
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Netflix Curates Cool Moustaches Selection For Movember ...
By Brendon Connelly
I've not actually shaved this month so maybe I could take part in Movember, the annual month-long fund raising and awareness raising drive that wants to improve men's health, particularly in respect of prostate and testicular cancer. And while ...
Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies...

Controlling Google TV from a Raspberry Pi (or other networked ...
By Mike Szczys
Google TV is a network connected television. It does what you would think: plays television programs, streams media from the internet, and allows you to open URLs on your TV. But one nice feature is that it can also be controlled over the ...
Hack a Day

Baidu buying Providence Equity's stake in iQiyi
MarketWatch
"Online video is a key strategic vertical for Baidu as user numbers and time-spend continue to increase exponentially, underscoring the tremendous potential in the sector," said Baidu Chief Executive Robin Li. "We are very pleased with the progress ...

Maxus' Fineman: Programmatic Buying is Creating Greater Efficiency Around ...
Beet.TV
Online video is expensive, and programmatic is creating greater efficiencies for advertisers," says David Fineman, Partner, Digital Investment and Technology Director, Maxus, a unit of GroupM Worldwide, in this interview with Beet.TV Fineman gives an ...

China Online Video Advertising Revenue Up 77.9 Per Cent In Q3
Bernama
BEIJING, Nov 2 (Bernama) -- China's online video advertising revenue hit 2.64 billion yuan (US$423.19 million) in the third quarter (Q3) 2012, up 77.9 per cent year-on-year. Revenue in the period under review rose by 37.5 per cent compared with the ...

Survey says Amazon is gaining on Netflix
FierceOnlineVideo
It probably didn't take a survey to let everyone know that Amazon's (Nasdaq: AMZN) Instant Video service is quickly gaining ground among consumers in the OTT video space. Nevertheless, 451 Research's ChangeWave service issued a survey that showed ...

GLORY 3 live stream online video feed for 'Rome Final 8' on Nov. 3
MMAmania.com
GLORY 3 live stream online video feed for 'Rome Final 8' on Nov. 3. +. By Patrick L. Stumberg on Nov 2, 8:01a. Eight of the top kickboxers in the world will fight in the 'Final 8' tournament at GLORY 3, which will take place at PalaLottomatica from ...

8 Simple Ways to Build & Grow Your YouTube Audience [Creator's Tip #63]
ReelSEO Online Video News
Online video creators thrive when spending time developing new content ideas to entertain and grow their audiences. After all, being creative is what drives creative people. However, to be 'reel' successful, it's just as important for creators to focus ...

ReelSEO Online Video News

Online video specialist QuickPlay Media calls in Liberty for European brief
PRWeek UK
QuickPlay's cloud-based video platform and distribution service is used by media company's such as MTV, NBC and the Associated Press to deliver online video to audiences. QuickPlay Media vice-president of marketing Nikki Gore said: 'Europe is an ...

Roku's 'Universal Search' Makes Battle With Boxee Into an Internet TV Street Fight
NewMediaRockstars
The war for internet television just got more interesting.Following on the heels of such previous technology battles as Samsung versus Apple, Blu-Ray versus HD DVD, and VHS versus Betamax, Boxee and Roku are now enmeshed in a war to be the premiere ...

Broadband, broadcast lines erode as TV shifts to a mobile, multiscreen media ...
Rapid tv news
New research from online video firm Ooyala has confirmed the trend that viewers around the world are embracing mobile, multiscreen experiences for both long-form and short-form content. The Ooyala Global Video Index Report for the second quarter of ...

Advisers Educate, Even Dance on YouTube
Wall Street Journal
Brittney Castro, an independent financial planner with LPL Financial in Los Angeles, set up herYouTube channel about a year ago. Some of her "Ask the Expert" videos have a purely financial focus, like her interview with an estate planning attorney ...

Air New Zealand finds magic in hobbit flight safety video that's a YouTube hit
Fox News
The airline's four-minute safety video featuring the character Gollum and film director Peter Jackson got more than 2 million hits on YouTube within a day of its posting. The carrier calls itself "the airline of Middle-earth" and cabin staff appear in ...

'Bronco Bama' Abby Evans YouTube video: Abby Evans, girl crying over ...
WPTV
In a video released Wednesday that has gone viral across the Internet, a 4-year old girl named Abby Evans is seen frowning, tears rolling down her cheeks, "Because I'm tired of Bronco Obama and Mitt Romney." Photographer: YouTube. Copyright 2012 ...

WPTV

Viral video alert: 4-year-old wants the election to be over
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Election day is less than a week away, and some Americans are ready for the whole thing to be over, including the adorable 4-year-old Colorado girl featured in a viral YouTube video. In the short clip, Abigael Evans of Fort Collins is weeping when her ...

Test Driving YouTube's Secret New Site Design
ReadWriteWeb
Like every other time new layouts and features have been introduced on the video-sharing site, only a select few were given keys to test drive the changes in what I call "Secret YouTube 2012." No word yet on when - or even if - the changes will go live ...

Woodbridge mayor speaks to residents about storm-damage concerns via ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
WOODBRIDGE – "I'm very happy to report that there have been no casualties so far in Woodbridge Township," Mayor John McCormac says in a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday. Still, "fire companies are pumping out basements all over town," ...

Renters Can Now Access All Apartments.com Listings On YouTube
Sacramento Bee
1, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Apartments.com announces the launch of its YouTube™1 brandchannel today. Renters can now access all Apartments.com listings, including walk–through videotours of apartments, by visiting www.youtube.com/apartmentscom.

Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza begins putting its video ...
By Robert Wilonsky
It's 50 years old, but newly available to the web courtesy the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which today began posting to YouTube videos from its estimable collection. Among the offerings: a mini-doc about Jack Ruby; a flashback ...
The Scoop Blog

Benghazi was not unexpected, nor caused by a YouTube video, and ...
By Jim Treacher
If you've been paying attention to what happened in Benghazi and the subsequent coverup — hell, if you've ever even heard of Benghazi — then Catherine Herridge's latest report won't surprise you. It's just another piece of evidence to prove ...
The Daily Caller

Digital media consumption up, while TV and radio hold steady
Channel News Asia
Digital media consumption up, while TV and radio hold steady. Posted: 02 November 2012 1510 hrs. Singapore youths · Click to enlarge, Photos, of. SINGAPORE: Nielsen's latest Media Index Report shows an upswing in digital media consumption. Website ...

Digital media industry seeks office in Exchange
Winnipeg Free Press
The three-part initiative was unveiled at a news conference Thursday organized by New Media Manitoba, the not-for-profit association that supports the interactive digital media industry in the province. NMM executive director Kevin Hnatiuk said the ...

What's Stopping Connected TV?
MediaPost Communications
In some circles this was seen as a major victory for connected TV, and a sign that the format was finally maturing. Truthfully, both of these claims are premature, as they do not align with what the study actually reveals about connected TV users. It ...

National Digital Media Network Adds New Members
mediacaster
Two additional high-tech innovation centres have joined the cross-Canada digital media network to enable collaboration and advance digital innovation nationally. The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre in northern Ontario, and Tech SouthEast in Moncton, ...

The Bookmarks: Celebrating excellence in digital media
The Media Online
Organised by the Digital Media and Marketing Association, the awards are designed to honour excellence in the digital realm. The DMMA's Nikki Cockcraft was recognised for her role the field, being awarded Best Individual Contribution to South Africa's ...

Spotlight on Mobile Advertising and Social Media Innovation at ad:tech New York
HispanicBusiness.com
Conference attendees are invited to visit the Brand.net Pulse Lab on Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for spotlight demonstrations from Valassis digital media developers and Pulse Lab participants AppKey and WDA. "Innovation is critical to ...

Key Provisions of Business Contracts for Digital Media Companies
FeedFront Magazine
by Shawn Collins on November 2, 2012. Slade Cutter, attorney and Certified Information Privacy Professional, talked about the key provisions of business contracts for digital media companies at the Affiliate Summit Meetup in Austin, TX on October 30, 2012.

Biscotti TV Camera Creator, Biscotti Inc., Signs Distribution Agreement with D ...
Telepresence Options
Our partnership will play a significant role in helping ensure CE retailers, and videoconferencing dealers and installers throughout the United States can maximize access to Biscotti's Smart TV Cam products," said Dean Tucker, Senior Vice President of ...

Telepresence Options

Win: A state-of-the-art 46-inch Samsung Smart TV
Digital Spy UK
During his talk Alex will demonstrate how technology changed the London 2012 Olympic Games, and use the Samsung Smart TV to illustrate the key technologies. To mark this event, Digital Spy is giving away a state-of-the-art 46-inch ES8000 Samsung ...

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Popular streaming channels: Netflix: The king of movie and TV show streaming. $7.99/mo. YouTube: User-submitted videos and some original programming. Free. Hulu Plus: TV shows days after they air and some movies. $7.99/mo. Amazon Prime: A strong Netflix competitor with other Amazon benefits. $79/year. Crackle: Movies and TV mostly from Sony's library. Free. Vudu: Movie rental site owned by Walmart. Fees per movie

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