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LAS VEGAS — Yahoo! Connected TV, a software program installed in a number of Internet-ready television sets, will soon allow producers and advertisers to enhance the viewing experience with a variety of interactive features, the company announced at CES.

As brands and businesses continue to migrate their services to the growing number of Smartphone users, they will want to keep the user experience that is particular to mobile phones, said consumer research firm Opinion Lab.

NEW YORK — Using an algorithm which parses one million records per day, the MTV Music Meter provides a ranking of the the most talked about and fast moving tunes. 

Despite the plethora of streaming video and over-the-top options, the vast majority of TV viewers are keeping their cable.

The Chinese government, which had been thought for some time to have been the source of the hacking of Google’s servers, leading to Google’s departure from China, was directed by China’s Politburo, according to diplomatic cables disclosed today by Wikileaks. 

MONACO — Bing, the search engine from Microsoft has made "amazing headway" in the battle with Google for market share through "structured data," says Esther Dyson in this interview with Beet.TV

MONACO —  Apps will “reshape paid content” in a “profound way,” says Thomas Kunstner, partner at Booz and the leader of the firm’s European media practice, in this interview with Beet.TV

MONACO — Having watched several cycles in the European tech start-up scene, this is one of the most exciting times, says TechCrunch European Editor Mike Butcher in this video interview with Beet.TV

MONACO —  For publishers to succeed in the fast changing media environment, digital content must be universally accessed, irrespective of the device, says Staci D. Kramer, editor of paidContent, the influential media news site.

SAN FRANCISCO –  We caught up BitTorrent founder and chief scientist about the evolving business of his company.

LOS ANGELES –  CNET, a unit of CBS Interactive,  has been expanding its offering of a range of Apps for many content offerings, including videos.  Today it launched a shopping app for CNET Reviews for the iPad and iPod Touch in the App store. For more information on the new app and CNET's Holiday Tech […]

SAN FRANCISCO — While the threat of cyber terrorism is much discussed in government and the media, the biggest threat around Internet security are state-supported industrial espionage as practiced by the Chinese and organized crime activities in Russia supported by the government.

While there is consumer interest in high-end 3-D TV's, the costs for the TV's,  3-D Blu-ray players and glasses is slowing adoption, says Ross Rubin lead technology analyst at the NPD Group.

With President Obama signature this afternoon, online video content creators will be among those required to provide closed captioning, as part of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessiblity Act.

Consumers are increasingly searching for brands and businesses using their mobile phones. Google has said about 20 percent of searches on Google.com are now related to location and about one-third of all Google searches via the mobile platform are related to the searcher’s local environment.

5MIN, the fast growing syndicator of online video, mostly lifestyle and "how to" clips, has been sold to AOL, according to a report by Peter Kafka of All Things Digital, MediaMemo.

Conviva has raise a series C $15 million venture round, the company announced today.    

The Financial Times has been investing heavily in producing online video programming and has made a "major investment" in building a television news studio in its London headquarters, paidContent reports.

Justin.tv, the big San Francisco-based live Web video site continues to grow with an average of 32 hours of live video streamed and ingested into the system every minute to viewed instantly and for later viewing on demand, says Evan Solomon, head of marketing said in this interview.

ScanScout, the big New York-based video ad network, is getting favorable results for its advertisers, says Jason Krebs, Executive Vice President. We sat down with Jason recently for this update. Andy Plesser.