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Netflix says its UK launch has added three million subscribers to its overall figure, which now stands at 26 million.

Location-based services (LBS) have topped the global league as the mobile feature set to grow the most, after world leading insights consultancy TNS revealed over 60% of those that don’t yet use the service globally want to start using them.

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Thomas Teckentrup, General Manager, Software & Services Division at Toshiba EMEA believes that pay TV operators have nothing to fear from connected TV platforms and should harness them as a way to dispense with set-top boxes and DVRs, removing this cost from their balance sheet and delivering their content via apps.

ITV1 made another dent in the audience of Silent Witness last night with Scott & Bailey beating their BBC counterparts for the second week in a row.

DG, a traditional-TV ad delivery company that moved into the online-ad space when it acquired MediaMind last year, has purchased ad-targeting start-up Peer39.

The next few years will see a major effort among companies to control entertainment services delivered to television sets. This “battle for the living room” is the subject of a series of new research reports from DFC Intelligence. These reports cover the efforts of content owners, video aggregators, and CE manufacturers to develop an alternative market for distribution of TV shows and movies.

Facebook has reported its first quarter on quarter revenue dip in two years, with net income falling slightly to $205 million as costs nearly doubled to $677 million.

25% of US respondents to ABI Research’s Technology Barometer survey said they intend to purchase a smartphone during the first half of 2012 – a percentage equaled by HDTVs. Additionally, more respondents intend to purchase Blu-ray players (17%) and game consoles (18%), rather than media tablets (16%).