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Netflix Surpasses HBO in U.S. Subscribers
… Netflix reported 29.17 million domestic subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, surpassing HBO for the first time. — Netflix, which ended 2012 with 27.15 million domestic subs, added just over 2 million subs, according to first quarter results issued Monday.
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CBS Takes Stake in Syncbak, Eyeing Aereo Threat
… CBS now owns a piece of Syncbak. The Eye has taken a minority stake in the local TV streaming-video venture backed by broadcasters, one way the industry is responding to over-the-top startup Aereo, which refuses to pay retransmission fees …
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Intel: The Big Bet That Could Change TV
… Editor-in-chief: Digital — @awallenstein — Employees at Intel Corp. are free to roam almost anywhere across the vast Santa Clara, Calif., campus they call home. Certain laboratories are off-limits of course; that's understandable …
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It's Big TV vs. Big Telecom Over Broadcast Spectrum
— The government embarks on an ambitious plan to entice flailing stations to put their spectrum up for auction. — The government's plan to auction off broadcast spectrum to expand wireless services has pitted Big TV against Big Telecom at the FCC and in the halls of Congress.
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Study Suggests Megaupload Shutdown Boosted Legal Movie Sales
… Hollywood studios are quick to offer figures on the cost of piracy, but a new study sheds light on whether efforts to combat it is at all working. — A study conducted by Carnegie Mellon's Initiative for Digital Entertainment …
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Sony in talks for virtual MSO service
— Conglom could roll out over-the-top channels later this year — Sony Corp. will show off a wide range of new products at next week's Consumer Electronics Show, but one that will stay under wraps could be its riskiest: a multichannel TV service to rival cable.
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Media bigs flock to YouTube power players
— Why MCNs like Fullscreen, Maker are luring investors — Above: Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos, right, holds a meeting with staffers in Culver City, CA. — There may be no better sign that there's a hot Internet sector brewing than Peter Chernin choosing to invest there — repeatedly.
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HBO cuts the cord for international launch
— Nordic region won't need pay-TV subscription to get net — HBO will make the Nordic region the first market where its programming will be available to consumers without requiring that they have a pay-TV subscription.
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Hulu CEO faces big changes
— Jason Kilar set for mega payday; owners to alter content deals — “Outline transition plan for new CEO. Discuss potential candidates and process.” — These sentences are the topmost bullet points of a confidential internal memo regarding the business of Hulu obtained by Variety.
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.