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From MySpace to Friends Reunited, why do so many media giants fail completely when they buy up social media companies? Media Native’s David Brennan has done his homework and now has the answer…

Sky walk away with the some of the biggest stories of the opening weekend and will show 43 live Premier League matches by 1 December compared with BT’s 12.

Matches will be available for 53 countries across Europe and Latin America for free and streamed live via the ECB’s YouTube channel.

Liverpool versus Stoke City on August 17 will kick off the first of the matches to be shown on BT Sport, also including Spurs v Chelsea and Everton v Liverpool.

After a series of high-profile flops, this week sees the death – or at least the deep-freeze – of 3DTV made official. So what does this mean for the media industry? Raymond Snoddy looks at the impact for everyone, from broadcasters to TV manufacturers.

iPlayer was joined in the top 10 most highly ranked brands in terms of consumer perception by Samsung, the BBC and YouTube.

The Ashes Event Centre will offer live ball-by-ball coverage and feature an integrated ‘Hawk-Eye’ app that gives viewers the opportunity to review every ball via a host of analysis tools.

In the final five minutes of the Wimbledon men’s final, 120,000 tweets were generated per minute, with the two week competition resulting in a 20% surge in Murray’s Twitter followers.

After both the BBC and ESPN put their 3D development on ice – citing a lack of consumer appetite for the technology – Richard Marks, director of Research the Media, asks how do we research what people will actually do as opposed to what they think they want?

Andy Murray’s nail-biting victory yesterday made the second biggest audience in Wimbledon history behind Borg vs McEnroe in 1980, and the highest television rating of the year so far.