Mobile app usage peaks at around 7 pm during the day, according to the mobile analytics firm Flurry. The data shows that, just as there is with television, there is a prime-time for mobile apps as well.
Mobile app users …
TV Guide Digital has a message for online entertainment guides calling themselves the next TV Guide:
“There is only one TV Guide, and that’s TV Guide,” says Christy Tanner, the executive vice president and general manager of TV Guide …
Media Predict is a marketplace where people get paid to place bets on which media will fly and which will flop.
As we publish this story, Media Predict is launching a real-money Netflix futures market (image below). It lets people …
Apple is almost certainly working on a digital television based on its iOS operating system, according to multiple sources in Silicon Valley.
An Apple-based television makes sense in light of Apple’s continued expansion out of the computer industry into the …
Internet-connected TVs are becoming a lot more mainstream. The latest sign: Best Buy is announcing its own house label model, dubbed the Insignia Connected TV.
Best Buy, the nation’s largest gadget retailer, hopes to capture more margin in the increasingly …
Piper Jafray analyst Gene Munster has long speculated that an Apple-branded television set — not to be confused with the Apple TV streaming box — is likely headed to market by the end of 2012.
In a recent report covered …
Music and broadcast media discovery app developer Shazam announced that it has raised $32 million in its most recent round of funding.
Shazam builds an application that gives iPhone and other mobile device owners a way to discover new content …
Apple has had modest success with its Apple TV set-top box for streaming movies and music into homes. But the company might be exploring getting into the business of selling televisions.
If Apple does it right, it could disrupt yet …
Here’s a shock: the three main corporate owners of Hulu are at odds with each other and with Hulu management over the online TV service’s basic strategy. Who could have guessed?
The Wall Street Journal reports that News Corp. (owner …
Streaming TV shows online — whether via network websites or services like Hulu and Netflix — represents a major threat to networks that depend on reruns, says Phil Kent, CEO of Turner Broadcasting, which owns networks like TBS and TNT …
Just like Hulu, broadcast networks ABC, NBC, and CBS have chosen to block access to Google TV — the company’s new platform that brings web video to televisions — the Wall Street Journal reports.
Google, meanwhile, is in active negotiations …
Sports fans weren’t the only casualties of News Corp. and Cablevision’s prolonged contract dispute this weekend, as Cablevision customers also briefly lost access to Hulu’s Fox content on Saturday, All Things Digital reports.
Cablevision subscribers who attempted to watch Fox …
After months of mere glimpses at Logitech’s Revue set-top box, I got a closer look today, as well as some hands-on time, with the Google TV-powered device.
The box will come bundled with a controller that looks like a typical …
Google offered ABC’s Nightline a glimpse at Google TV tonight (see video below), and with it came our first look at Sony’s proposed Google TV controller for its new internet-enabled televisions.
At first glance, the controller seems incredibly busy and …
Google has been fairly quiet on the progress of Google TV since it was announced five months ago, but now the company seems ready to spin up its hype machine once again.
In a blog post today, Google TV product …
Google will announce tomorrow (Tuesday) a deal to deliver ads to Dish Network, the nation’s second largest satellite TV company, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
This confirms rumors of such a deal we first mentioned at VentureBeat three weeks …
