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[Cisco Study] Video content accounted for an impressive 64% of all the world's internet traffic in 2014, but even with all the ALS challenges, and cat videos that year brought us, we are due an explosion in consumption over the next 4 years. According to a new report...

By EMILY STEELJULY At first, Comcast’s Stream service will be offered in three cities and include programs from about a dozen networks.CreditComcast Comcast, the country’s largest cable operator, is responding to the rush of new streaming television alternatives with...

Janko Roettgers Senior Silicon Valley Correspondent Anyone looking to understand the reasons behind the $78.7 billion deal that Charter Communications struck with TW Cable last week need look no further than their own set-top box. SEE MORE: From the June 2, 2015 issue...

  Credit: Shutterstock.com On Thursday, Google (GOOG) held its I/O developers conference in San Fransisco, Calif. The search engine behemoth, software developer and creator of consumer electronics announced a series of exciting first-look product announcements...

While pay TV subscriber growth continued its slow decline in the first quarter, the rate of broadband subscriber additions maintained its pace during the period. The top 17 cable and telcos, representing 94% of the market, added nearly 1.2 million net additional...

To become a "destination" and keep mobile viewers hooked, YouTube realized it had to fix itself, from its development platform to its AI. By John Paul Titlow The war over our eyeballs is heating up, and that's mostly a good thing for people who like to look at...

Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) mobile payment app, Apple Pay, has experienced rapid uptake since its debut last fall and is outperforming eBay's PayPal in the market, 451 Research said Tuesday. "Our latest survey shows planned use of Apple Pay has been on an upward trajectory...

One in three Americans over the age of 18 owns either a smart TV or a device that streams video to their TVs, with two in five (38%) of those individuals spending at least half of their TV viewing time streaming video to their television. That's according to the...

Time Warner executives didn’t give too much insight into the recently launched Home Box Office standalone product HBO Now, but told analysts that the product could be beefed up in the future with additional content from its Turner Broadcasting Networks. On a...

AT&T U-verse and Disney said Tuesday (April 21) they are launching a new subscription video-on-demand service adapted from the media company's Disney Story Central platform. Disney Story Central is a website and app providing narrated Disney book titles that kids...

We’ve been able to listen to whatever song we want to, whenever we want to, for years now. Video content is still playing catchup to the music world, but with the rise of Adobe Primetime and Google’s foray into cable television, there’s no doubt that programmatic TV...

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg For most of its rapid ascent of the TV business, Netflix Inc. has rented shows. Now it wants to own them. Like a major Hollywood studio or competitor HBO, the company will own many of the 20 or more original shows that debut on...