Yahoo’s Head of Middle East and Africa Departs for New Social TV Startup Aimed at Emerging Markets

A new venture is aimed at the growing mobile viewership in the Middle East and Africa.
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Outfit7 Says Its Talking Friends Apps Have Been Downloaded More Than One Billion Times

Also: Talking Tom & co. have a TV show (and maybe a movie) on the way.
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I Was a Cord Cutter … But I Fell Off the Wagon

Have the pay television operators already lost the living room? Or are they dinosaurs with lasers?
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TV Networks Play to “Second Screen”

Last weekend, members of the cast and crew of AMC Networks Inc.’s crime drama “The Killing” were on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, shooting material for Sunday’s season premiere. What they produced won’t be shown on television, though. It is meant for smartphones, tablets and laptops.

Electric Cars, Wearable Computing and TV Disruption — 10 Things You Missed During the First Two Days of D11

Not constantly refreshing our homepage? Never fear — here’s a good place to start if you missed anything from the first two days at D11.
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KatieCam: Anne Sweeney and I. Marlene King on Parent-Policed TV (Video)

Would they let their kids watch “Pretty Little Liars”?
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Who’s at D: Roku CEO Anthony Wood on the Future of TV (Video)

Fortunately, Wood wasn’t as evasive about his vision for the TV as Apple’s Tim Cook was.
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IAC’s Barry Diller and CNN’s Jeff Zucker: The Full D11 Interview (Video)

The two media execs talk Aereo, the future of the TV bundle and the “poo-poo cruise.”
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Mom, What’s a TV Network?

Eleven-year-old Louie Swisher would like to know.
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Diller, Zucker Talk Aereo, “Creative Destruction” and the “Poo-Poo Cruise”

One man trying to create TV for the future, another trying to reinvent TV of the past.
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