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Monday 21 October 2013

Mobilize Re-Run: Netflix’s second screen strategy is all about control


by Chris Albrecht
Oct 21 2013, 3:35am PDT
From the stage at our Mobilize Conference, Netflix VP of Product Innovation, Todd Yellin tells how the company is looking to integrate phones into TV watching.
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Flipboard says that it really wants to help publishers, not take advantage of them

by Mathew Ingram
Oct 19 2013, 2:00pm PDT
Some publishers seem to feel that Flipboard's business model is based on taking advantage of their free content, but the company argues that what it really wants to do is help them stay in business
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Why getting married to the TV industry may not be the road to success Twitter is hoping for

by Mathew Ingram
Oct 18 2013, 6:13pm PDT
Twitter is banking on its status as a "second screen" for TV content to drive a lot of the value it is promising as part of its public offering -- but what if that value turns out to be a mirage?
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Nearly a quarter of U.S. adults owns an e-reader, but tablets are growing faster: Pew

by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 18 2013, 11:49am PDT
Pew released updated data Friday finding that 24 percent of American adults owns an e-reader, up from 19 percent in a November 2012 survey. For this report, Pew did phone surveys with 6,224 Americans ages 16 and older. Women are still more likely to own e-readers […]
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Aereo comes to Detroit on October 28. Can it really hit 22 cities by the end of 2013?

by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 18 2013, 8:57am PDT
Aereo will launch in Detroit at the end of October. The company had said it would expand to 22 cities by the end of 2013, but so far it's only set launch dates in eight cities.
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Media tech accelerator Matter announces its second class of startups

by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 16 2013, 12:49pm PDT
San Francisco-based media startup accelerator Matter announced its second class Wednesday, which consists of seven startups. They include the Creative Action Network, a marketplace for crowdsourced creative content, and Connu, a short story startup that originally raised funding on Kickstarter.
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Spuul wants to become Bollywood’s Netflix, thanks to a secret weapon: offline viewing

by Janko Roettgers
Oct 16 2013, 11:00am PDT
Spuul streams Indian movies to audiences worldwide. But with many users struggling with limited bandwidth, the company now added an option for offline viewing.
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Ebook subscription startup Oyster expands to iPad and opens to all; some stats from Scribd

by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 16 2013, 9:00am PDT
"Netflix for ebooks" Oyster launched on iPad and opened up to everybody Wednesday; previously it had only been available on iPhone. Rival service Scribd also released some stats showing that most of its use is coming from iPad.
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FilmOn thumbs nose at TV streaming ban, faces contempt of court charge

by Jeff John Roberts
Oct 16 2013, 7:00am PDT
Isn't it fun to be a billionaire? The CEO of FilmON defied a court order and starting streaming TV over the internet again. A federal judge is not impressed.
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Updated: Glenn Greenwald’s new media venture funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar

by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 15 2013, 8:18pm PDT
Glenn Greenwald is leaving the Guardian for a new media venture he euphorically described as a "once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity." That venture is backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
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