GigaomWith Twitch acquisition, YouTube might finally make live streaming matter
YouTube has struggled to make live streaming work. Acquiring Twitch could change that. Read more »
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YouTube has struggled to make live streaming work. Acquiring Twitch could change that. Read more »
YouTube is buying Twitch for $1 billion in cash, according to a report. Read more »
TV Everywhere is too complicated and fragmented to be really popular — but it has nonetheless changed television. Read more »
U.S. internet viewers watch more videos of gamers battling each other online than streams of HBO’s online service, according to new data from Sandvine. Read more »
Why would Netflix or anyone else pay for preferential treatment on the last mile when they could still be subject to a toll to get onto the last mile? Read more »
To argue now that Cablevision’s “first instance” retransmission licenses somehow conferred immunity from liability on its second-instance RS-DVR service that is not available to Aereo, as the deputy solicitor general tried… Read more »
Here’s a first: Several HBO series, including The Sopranos and The Wire, will begin appearing on Amazon Prime Instant Video starting May 21. Amazon is also planning to add HBO Go… Read more »
AT&T is creating a streaming video service thanks to a $500 million joint venture with the Chernin Group, a producer of a variety of television and media content. Read more »
If Aereo loses in court it’s done. But even if it wins there’s nothing to stop broadcasters themselves from eventually providing streaming access to their broadcast signals, potentially at no cost… Read more »
Chet Kanojia, the man behind the company that could transform the TV industry, has some very big ideas about how to manage the airwaves and how people will watch television five… Read more »