Hands on with Zeebox, your new social TV guide
Since he left his role as the head of BBC’s iPlayer and its troubled sibling YouView, Anthony Rose has been working on a secret Internet TV startup known as tBoneTV — but only occasionally talking...
View ArticleSocial TV app BeeTV hits the dead pool
After raising more than $10 million since being founded in 2007, social TV startup BeeTV is shutting down and putting its assets up for auction, CEO Yaniv Solnik informed us in an email Monday morning....
View ArticleSpike gets social for 2011 Video Game Awards
When the 2011 Video Game Awards go live this weekend, Spike TV (s VIA) hopes to build buzz for the show with a number of initiatives aimed at harnessing the conversation on social networks like...
View ArticleGetGlue’s next iPad app aims to reinvent the TV guide
Updated. These days, there seem to be countless contenders trying to become the next TV Guide. Soon, another company is going to throw their hat in the ring: GetGlue CEO Alex Iskold told me yesterday...
View ArticleTVGuide.com buys online programming guide Fav.tv
San Francisco-based Fav.tv, the site that wanted to be a kind of TV Guide 2.0, has been bought by none other than TVGuide.com itself. TVGuide.com’s GM Christy Tanner declined to give any financial...
View ArticleSneak peek: A first look at GetGlue HD (video)
GetGlue is about to roll out a significant update of its mobile app that moves the service beyond check-ins and towards a personalized programming guide. The new app is called GetGlue HD, and GetGlue...
View ArticleGetGlue updates iPhone app, gets ready to integrate Hulu and other web content
Social TV startup GetGlue rolled out an update of its iPhone app Thursday, adding a programming guide, show feeds and the ability to chat with Facebook (s FB) friends about a show. Also in the works is...
View Articlei.TV snaps up GetGlue in a reported all-stock transaction
Second-screen startup i.TV has bought its better-known, but not that much more popular rival GetGlue. i.TV announced the transaction Wednesday, and Variety is reporting that the deal was all stock, and...
View ArticleLet’s face it: social TV is dead
Okay, video startups, it’s time to get real: That social TV thing you’ve been trying for the last couple years? It’s not working. The evidence is all around us: A few days ago, Yahoo (s YUHOO)...
View ArticleGetGlue successor TVtag is shutting down
Social TV service TVtag, which was previously known as GetGlue, is shutting down at the end of the year. TVtag announced the shutdown in an email to users Friday afternoon, which stated that users had...
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