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Twitter excludes video from 140-character limit

Twitter is opening its platform up to more video content by exempting video, photos, animated…

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Millennial OTT service Newsy turns to cable

Millennial-focused OTT news service Newsy is expanding its reach by teaming up with Cincinnati Bell,…

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MacLellan upped in NBCU restructure

NBCUniversal has given Kevin MacLellan an expanded role at is international business as part of…

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Viacom ‘no longer looking’ to sell Paramount stake

Viacom is no longer looking actively to sell as stake in Paramount Pictures, according to…

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Twitter streams US NFL football

Twitter yesterday streamed US NFL football for the first time, making live video coverage of…

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Layer3 to take on US pay TV giants

A new player is entering the US pay TV market and attempting to rival the…

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Twitter video-streaming app launches on Apple TV, Fire TV, Xbox One

Twitter has launched a new app for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Xbox One…

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Google unveils biggest ever update to Fiber TV

Google has unveiled the biggest update to Fiber TV since it launched the service in…

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Disney cuts digital, consumer products job

Disney has cuts its digital media and consumer products team by 5%, or 250 staff,…

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Muvi adds sale of physical goods to streaming platform

White-label cloud-based video streaming platform Muvi has added the sale of content-related merchandise to its…

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Wurl TV strikes deal with games-focused IGN Entertainment

US internet TV aggregator Wurl TV has struck a deal with e-sports and games-focused programmer…

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New Viacom board meets, CEO decision looms

The newly constituted board of Viacom will meet today for the first time, with a…

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TiVo unveils six tuner, 4K BOLT+ box

TiVo has unveiled the BOLT+, a 4K set-top box that includes six tuners, 3TB of…

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Report: Liberty Media gears up to take F1 rights

Liberty Media is reportedly close to taking control of Formula One, buying ownership of the…

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Video infrastructure firm Bitmovin raises US$10.3m

Web video infrastructure firm Bitmovin has completed a US$10.3 million (€9.2 million) Series A funding…

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Mythbusters team prep Netflix show

The producer and several of the team from the popular popular science series Mythbusters are making a…

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Parks Associates: US OTT adoption up 12%

The adoption of over-the-top (OTT) video services among US broadband households has increased by 12%…

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Mashable agrees content deal with Endemol Shine

Digital media news site Mashable has signed a content deal with Endemol Shine Beyond USA…

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AT&T strikes multi-platform deal with HBO

AT&T has reached a multi-year deal with HBO to offer the latter’s content across all…

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Report: Google to cut half of Fiber staff

Google parent company Alphabet is reportedly looking to cut half the staff of its Google…

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North American homes use seven connected devices on average

North American homes use an average of seven active connected devices, but laptops and PCs…

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SeaChange to miss Q2 targets and cut more costs

SeaChange has said that it expects to miss both its revenue and operating targets for…

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Rovi agrees 10-year patent deal with DISH

Rovi has signed a 10-year patent renewal license agreement with US pay TV operator DISH…

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Dauman set to exit as Viacom war draws to a close

Philippe Dauman is set to leave his role as CEO of Viacom in exchange for…

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Comcast begins trial of DOCSIS 3.1 in Chicago

US cable giant Comcast is to begin trialling 1Gbps internet services in the Chicago area…

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Cisco to eliminate 7% of workforce, video business takes Q4 hit

Cisco is to eliminate 5,500 jobs, or 7% of its global workforce, as it seeks…

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Intel unveils new integrated ‘merged reality’ system, teams up with Microsoft for VR

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has used his company’s Developer Forum in San Francisco to unveil…

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Telcos drive US pay TV numbers down as cable recovers ground

IPTV providers’ losses – particularly those of AT&T – meant that the top 11 US…

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‘SoMo’ social-mobile video consumption set to explode

Growing time spent on social networking sites on mobile devices will lead to massive expansion…

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Hopster launches in US

Kids on-demand edutainment service Hopster is launching in the US with a new look and…