It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a…

When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more ways than ever before to watch TV content whenever and however we want. But despite the growth of services like Hulu, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), it…

With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies offering pay-TV have to look for more bells and whistles to keep fickle consumers interested in their services. The latest offerings in this area come from France…

Back in August, we wrote about how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had started to offer U.S.-based users of its Apple TV device the ability to stream shows purchased from iTunes via Apple’s iCloud. Now it looks as if that service is becoming available internationally.

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is picking up some more momentum for its UK and Ireland launch, scheduled for early next year. The streaming video company has now added film studio Miramax to its list of content partners, joining Lionsgate and MGM in providing films for the service. But unlike the other…

A new day, and a new device to challenge Apple’s iPad in the market for tablets.

Consumers are watching more TV today than ever before, but that increased consumption is rapidly changing with the times. According to a new survey from TVGuide.com and paidContent, a good part of the growth in TV usage—among those who are avid TV watchers already—is coming via online content, time-shifting systems…

We’ve gathered together a selection of some of the stories and tributes been written for Steve Jobs in the last several weeks—with a particular emphasis on the those made since news of his passing broke on October 5. “Our time’s Da Vinci,” in the words of Spotify’s Daniel Ek. Read…

The RTL chief executive, Gerhard Zeiler, said on Thursday the broadcaster had not done a deal with Hulu, the online TV service, because its US owners would not allow the company to sell its own advertising.

We may be approaching the point where it’s fair to ask the following question: Where haven’t Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung sued each other in court over patent and design infringements? Today, Japan became the latest country to see legal action from Apple over allegations that Samsung violated Apple patents…

Bitbop, the mobile video service once owned by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and then sold in a whirr of a divestment strategy, looks like it is finding its feet again under new owner Jesta Digital. It’s now live with a mobile and PC-based mobile internet service in Germany, its first…

Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internationally, develop its products and potentially size up acquisitions.

Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. For ¥1,480 a month or roughly $18.50, Japanese subscribers can watch across an array of devices just like U.S. subscribers of Hulu Plus with one exception—Hulu Japan…

Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new—Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But today, paidContent can report, Miramax is launching the largest-scale Facebook streaming movie venture yet, the latest in a series of moves to mine the most ore possible from its rich…

The notion that Hulu would expand to the UK first has been around almost as long as the online video portal itself. But the joint venture of News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), NBCUniversal (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) is headed in a very different direction for its first international launch—Japan—and…

Lodsys, the company that has made legal threats against a number of independent iOS developers around their implementation of payments services for their apps, has now published some questions and answers with more info for those interested. Meanwhile, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has still not made any public statements related to…

With a value of $3 million and a reach that can’t be matched, an ad on the Fox broadcast of Super Bowl XLV is one of the biggest marketing weapons in the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). arsenal. Getting one of the house spots is a great opportunity for The Daily—and…

The latest chapter in the transformation of Fox Mobile from its old position as neglected stepchild in the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) family: the company is getting renamed Jesta Digital, and it is officially naming a new CEO, Jason Aintabi, who is also the U.S. president of the Jesta Group,…

As Nielsen’s research showed during the previous Battle for the Digital Home conference panel, hardly anyone is truly cutting their cable cords. But that’s not stopping upstart digital video companies, including executives from Boxee and Roku, from plotting the same course of giving viewers “what they want, when they want…