A new deal between Time Warner’s film studio and Netflix and Blockbuster will mean customers signed up to the services will have to wait 56 days for films after the DVDs first go on sale, instead of 28 days.

News Corp shares rose to a 52-week record in the year’s first week of trading – topping the highs it reached before the phone-hacking scandal in July.

News Corp’s BSkyB has acquired a 10% stake in social TV start-up Zeebox.

Trinity Mirror has acquired digital communications company Communicator Corp for £8 million.

Facebook is one of the most popular apps on Samsung connected TVs worldwide, according to Futuresource Consulting.

By 2016, marketers will spend $77 billion on interactive marketing – as much as they do on television today, according to Forrester’s new US interactive marketing forecast.

November proved to be the most popular month so far in 2011 for VoD viewing – with Channel 4 catch up and archive content attracting 44 million views during the month, across all the platforms on which 4oD is available.

ITV1’s 8 o’clock film Mamma Mia! stole the show during last night’s prime time slot, winning a high of more than 4.5 million peak viewers.

Absolute Radio stations are now available on connected TV sets following a partnership deal with Samsung.

The latest post-Christmas research from YouGov’s Technology and Telecoms analysts shows that while e-readers and tablets were generally a popular choice to give as a present this Christmas, 2011 was definitely the ‘Kindle Christmas’.